JENNIE, LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, 1974. We have just watched all seven episodes of
this well-regarded British TV series where Lee Remick plays Jennie Jerome, the
mother of Winston Churchill (as did Anne Bancroft in YOUNG WINSTON). Remick won
a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her performance ranging from the young Jennie dancing at Cowes
Sailing Week, where she first meets Lord Randolph Churchill (Ronald Pickup) as
he and Jennie hit it off right away. Jennie has always been the most headstrong
of father Dan O’Herlihy’s daughters as she makes it clear she won’t be stopped
from marrying Churchill. The episodes are engrossing, but it all has that
curiously flat look of ‘70s television, still this was made 40 years ago,
thankfully television productions look better these days.


First screened in 1974 a part of celebrating Churchill's centenary year, this stunning biographical drama charts all the major events in Jennie's life. Award-winning costumes and location scenes that include the splendour of Blenheim Palace, lend a striking authenticity. Among other awards James Cellan Jones won a Directors' Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and in 1991, in one of her last public appearances, Lee Remick's achievement was honoured by the presentation of the International Churchill Society's twelfth Blenheim Award.
Soon: another '70s British costume drama boxset marathon with Francesca Annis as Lily Langtry, the Jersey Lily, in LILLIE, with Peter Egan as a splendid Oscar Wilde ...
Sounds awesome. Hoping my library will have it. Thanks.
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