 Vivian sent her baby daughter, accompanied by her nursemaid, Consuela Strohmeier, to Montreal aboard the Donaldson Atlantic Line's , which was sunk by a German submarine on September 3, 1939 with a loss of 118 passengers.The child and the nurse survived.In 1939, Lubitsch moved to MGM, and directed Greta Garbo in "Ninotchka".