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Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.
Produced to coincide with the celebrations to mark the centenary of Churchill’s birth, this series focused on the life of his mother, an American born on January 9th 1854 in Brooklyn into a wealthy family. The young Jennie Jerome grew up in a privileged environment; oblivious to the American Civil War, (although she did remember the house being draped in black when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated when she was 11-years old), her father didn't deny her any of life's luxuries even going as far as hiring a friend of Chopin to teach her piano and the greatest singers and entertainers of the day visited the house to perform in the Jerome’s private theatre.
The seven episodes of Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill followed the life and loves of Jennie as she finds herself and her husband drawn into a disastrous social scandal, ostracized and sent to Ireland where Jennie throws her full energy into supporting her husband, electioneering, canvassing, knocking on doors and organizing political meetings and becoming the founder of the Primrose League, a grass roots Tory association, which attracted two million members. Eventually seeing the couple return to England with Randolph’s power and prestige increased until, following a rift of eight years, the Prince of Wales decides to invite the Churchill’s back into his circle and Jennie assumes her place as one of the foremost women in the country. She becomes one of the most widely photographed women in Britain and her beauty becomes almost legendary. But just as her life appears to be entering a golden-phase disaster strikes once again.
This sumptuous costume drama from Thames Television was written by Julian Mitchell with full cooperation from the surviving Churchill family who allowed him access to private papers. He did an immense amount of research before embarking on the script and several of the character speeches he took from their original letters to Jennie Churchill. "I talked to Lady Churchill" he wrote in 1974, "but, of course, she didn’t marry Winston until 1908 and by that time Jennie was 54." Jennie kept private diaries and Mitchell was also allowed to read these. "I’m the first person to have gone through the whole lot. All the interesting periods of her life are covered. A great many love letters to her, and all of hers to Randolph are preserved." Mitchell also used Jennie’s autobiography, written in 1907, but found that Jennie was inclined to romanticize: for example, she wrote that she was born in Trieste instead of Brooklyn.
The series was a study of a woman who was as remarkable as the times she lived in: from the American Civil War to Crimea, from a Europe dominated by the splendid courts of Kings and Queens to the dawning of the dark dictators. It is a story of the magic and fascination of a singularly determined woman who, having narrowly failed to secure her husbands place at the head of government, set out to mould the future of her son. A son who would go on to be regarded as the greatest Briton of all time.
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DVDs are DVD+R media, are REGION FREE and can be played in most any DVD player worldwide. Quality is very good; from analog source but pleasingly crisp. Menus, too! This was never released on dvd.
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