by Corey Williams

Pierette Simpson and her grandmother were dancing in the Andrea Doria's social hall, celebrating their near-arrival with other immigrants to a new life in America when the impact knocked everyone off their feet. She remembers the ship rising up and then leaning to one side. It would later sink into the Atlantic Ocean off Massachusetts.

Simpson plans to tell her part of the tale in a short documentary-type production that is expected to start filming Sunday in Ferndale, just north of Detroit. It will commemorate next year's 60th anniversary of the Andrea Doria's July 25, 1956 collision with another liner. "Everything is pretty much based on me as the main character as I'm experiencing the event," said Simpson, who was 9 when the Andrea Doria went down.

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