Lee Remick
Jennie
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974)
Season 1
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.
Released Nov. 5, 1974
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.period-drama, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.society, imdb.resignation, imdb.british-parliament, imdb.british-history + 8 more, imdb.boer-war, imdb.blue-blood, imdb.aristocracy, imdb.american-bride, awards.emmy-award-winner, awards.emmy-award-nominated, awards.golden-globe-winner, awards.golden-globe-nominated
Production Companies: Thames Television
Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Jennie Jerome
Cowes Week, 1873; Jennie Jerome, a beautiful spirited young American, meets Lord Randolph Churchill aboard the flagship HMS Ariadne. There is an immediate and powerful attraction, and three days later Randolph proposes. Jennie accepts - but neither expect the total opposition they face to their engagement.
Nov. 5, 1974, midnight
S1E2 - Lady Randolph
Jennie finds the Marlborough family overbearing and Blenheim Palace stuffy, but she knows as soon as her confinement is over she will resume her social life in London. A son, Winston, is born. Jennie's return to the London social scene is cut short by scandal...
Nov. 12, 1974, midnight
S1E3 - Recovery
Randolph's political career recovers after a stint in Ireland but having grown apart from her husband, Jennie embarks upon an extramarital affair with a dashing Austro-Hungarian nobleman, Count Karel Kinsky.
Nov. 19, 1974, midnight
S1E4 - Triumph and Tragedy
Randolph inexplicably resigns from his high post in the British government and begins acting more and more erratic. Soon, Jennie learns the horrible truth behind her husband's erratic behavior.
Nov. 26, 1974, midnight
S1E5 - A Perfect Darling
Five years after the death of her first husband, Lord Randolph Churchill, Jennie gets re-married to George Cornwallis-West who is the same age as her oldest son Winston.
Dec. 3, 1974, midnight
S1E6 - His Borrowed Plumes
Jennie's marriage to second husband George Cornwallis-West crumbles when famed actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell casts her roving eye upon George and they begin an extramarital affair.
Dec. 10, 1974, midnight
S1E7 - A Past and a Future
In 1918, at the age of 64, Jennie gets married for a third time to civil servant Montague Porch, who is three years younger than son Winston.
Dec. 17, 1974, midnight
ITV1
60 min/ep
60 min
Nov. 5, 1974
Dec. 17, 1974, midnight
Ended
NR
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