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Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
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Genre | Kids & Family, Romance, Military & War |
Format | NTSC, Color, Multiple Formats |
Contributor | Lee Remick, Adrian Ropes, Cyril Luckham, Linda Liles, Malcolm Stoddard, Barbara Parkins, Charles Lloyd Pack, Julia Sutton, Ronald Pickup, Rachel Kempson, Thorley Walters, Warren Clarke See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 2 |
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"Exquisite portrait" --The New York Times
The remarkable mother of the legendary statesman
A luminous Lee Remick stars as the mother of Sir Winston Churchill in this award-winning British miniseries seen on PBS. Written by playwright Julian Mitchell, who drew on private letters and papers from the Churchill family, it’s a captivating portrait of a spirited American woman. Follow Jennie through her extraordinary life, from her first meeting with Lord Randolph Churchill (Ronald Pickup, Fortunes of War, Behaving Badly) at the young age of 19 through their whirlwind marriage, Winston’s youth, a feud with the Prince of Wales, exile in Ireland, Randolph’s death, and two more marriages: the first to a man the same age as her son, the second to one even younger!
For her effervescent performance, Oscar® and Tony Award® nominee Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses, The Omen) won the best actress Golden Globe and BAFTA Award, as well as an Emmy® nomination. Filmed on location in family homes including Blenheim Palace, the series also stars Warren Clarke (Dalziel and Pascoe) as Winston, Christopher Cazenove (The Duchess of Duke Street), Siân Phillips (I, Claudius), and Jeremy Brett (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) as Count Kinsky, Lady Jennie’s great love.
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Jennie, the 1974 miniseries concerning Lady Randolph Churchill's full, adventurous life, illustrates the phrase "Behind every great man is a great woman" by showing how much the Victorian women of Lady Randolph's generation did to encourage the future possibility of female politicians. This seven-episode biopic drama opens in Paris, 1873, as Jennie Jerome (played by Lee Remick) meets the fiery Lord Randolph Churchill (Ronald Pickup) and marries him at age 19. Episode 2, "Lady Randolph," is devoted to showing the manners Jennie develops at the Churchill estate, Blenheim Palace, that inform her navigation of political aristocracy throughout the series. Also crucial in this early episode is the birth of her son, Winston Churchill (Warren Clarke), as one begins to see how his worldview is formed through the lens of his strong mother's eyes. The first two episodes look like a Cinderella story, with the smart, brutally honest Jennie leaving her more superficial, or at least conservative, mother and sister, Mrs. Jerome (Helen Horton) and Clara (Linda Liles), behind to follow her ambitions to become a self-proclaimed political wife. Yet the series overall elucidates how limited a woman of her stature really is in Victorian society, where women ultimately cannot become politicians themselves. At best, as episode 4, "Triumph and Tragedy," unfolds midway through this long tale, Jennie's unbridled desires will be channeled through her many love affairs and through cultural output such as the plays and literary magazines she writes and edits in episodes 5 and 6.
Lady Randolph's astute political views are developed chiefly in the first half of the series, as she watches dramas play out among royal family members throughout the British Isles. Her husband, whose tempestuous revolutionary attitude becomes his ultimate downfall, embraces conflict with Edward, Prince of Wales (Thorley Waters), and the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Kempson and Cyril Luckham), among others. While Jennie despises the tempered, old-fashioned views that George and Gwendoline Churchill (Ciaran Madden and John Westbrook) try to share with their son and his passionate wife, by episode 5, "A Perfect Darling," she begins to understand that temperance has its place in British society. Jennie does much to share an American perspective on England, explaining what will become Winston's brave, internationally respected position in World War II. While this series dedicates many scenes to Jennie's loves after Randolph, Count Karel Kinsky (Jeremy Brett) and George Cornwallis-West (Christopher Cazenove), the real story is about the woman herself, and her resilience bolstered by her truest ally, her younger sister Leonie (Barbara Perkins). By episode 7, "A Past and a Future," as the war rages on and Jennie gains hindsight on her past, one can really appreciate how a woman in her day and age worked within society's confines while never letting go of youth and aspiration. --Trinie Dalton
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- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 0.32 Ounces
- Media Format : NTSC, Color, Multiple Formats
- Run time : 6 hours and 1 minute
- Release date : June 29, 2010
- Actors : Lee Remick, Barbara Parkins, Warren Clarke, Rachel Kempson, Ronald Pickup
- Language : Unqualified
- Studio : ACORN MEDIA
- ASIN : B00336M8DK
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #97,932 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,475 in Military & War (Movies & TV)
- #3,850 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #8,609 in Kids & Family DVDs
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A wildly energetic sporting man, keen reader, & eccentric vulnerable to Freemasonry he transferred to Winston, the intense & confident Lord Randolph Churchill's passionately driving political originality was encouraged & advanced by his new helpmate fetchingly clad in Edwardian garb with American effervescence, French elan, and paradoxically sultry yet classic beauty attracting glittering social success with the high society fast Marlborough House set of the hedonist Prince of Wales who succeeded his disapproving dowager Queen Victoria mater as King Edward VII the opulent era is named for.
Society could not resist Jennie's beauty, wit, cosmopolitan savoir faire & flair, and determination conquering Britannia & more during her 67 colorful years. Savor more courtly dancing here than any other costume drama I've seen, sparklingly interwoven with choreographed repartee'. And Jennie's sister appears to actually play the piano alongside Jennie, who was a masterfully accomplished musician who could have been a concert pianist.
Jennie's political campaigning for her husband Lord Randolph Churchill helped make more of his illustrious heritage, God-given talents, and indulgence-shorted life than passions for tobacco & wine, roses wreathing winning racehorses, and the hunt that were lavishly diverting & dissipating his energies, opportunities, & life in need of focus, direction, & support. While banished from court by the King for outspokenness, his integrity mandated that the couple's experience of Ireland prophetically warn Parliament to stop the human rights abuses crucible forging the Irish Republic & rebellion against long bitterly entrenched English invasion, occupation, & genocide by land grab poverty & famine driving the Irish to build, and be conscripted to fight brother against brother for, the relatively (pun intended) new USA.
Illogically represented as dying from syphilis that would have changed history by infecting Jennie & sons, Lord Randolph's symptoms are medically considered likely a tumor of his left side, unsurprising with his penchant for cigarettes in sooty London, that he tried South Africa and India for health & foreign diplomacy.
"Black Irish" American beauty Lee Remick is more delightful & almost as stunning as England's "diamonds of the first water" Merle Oberon ("Wuthering Heights"), Elizabeth Taylor ("Black Beauty"), and Vivien Leigh ("Gone With The Wind" Scarlett O'Hara). Young adult Winston is believably played by a pugnacious carrot-top; Barbara Parkins is yet another delicious brunette; and heart-throb Christopher Cazenove appearance thrilled until his shameful role devolved into a terrible comedown from his glorious best in the British biopic "Duchess of Duke Street." And last but fairy tale palace not least, don't miss Blenheim palace's own Special Features tour. ~ Bon appetit, mes amis!
I enjoyed her spirited veiw on life and foresight to help her husband, with his political ambition by campaigning for him.
It shows her life as a widower, her courage with her charity work, and marriage to two younger men.
She was a woman before her time.
I was sorry I ordered it before I was through. I didn't realize the attitude about morality in that strata of society. I had mixed feelings about finishing the series. I would rather see things that didn't dwell on it. Otherwise it would have been a five star event.