JENNIE: LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL (1974)
Directed by James Cellan Jones
CAST:
Lee Remick .... Jennie Jerome
Ronald Pickup .... Lord Randolph Churchill
Barbara Parkins .... Leonie
Jeremy Brett .... Count Kinky
Rachel Kempson .... Duchess of Marlborough
Warren Clarke .... Winston Churchill
Charles Kay .... Montie Porch
Christopher Cazenove .... George Cornwallis-West
Brenda Kaye .... Patsy Cornwallis-West
Charles Lloyd Pack .... Sir Henry Wolff
SYNOPSIS:
The life of Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome, flamboyant mother of the future prime Minister Winston Churchill, is told in a seven-part mini-series. Her life and loves from ages 19 through 67 serve as a path through several epochs of British political history, fashions, and social mores.
In the final episode, it is 1918. At the age of 64, Jennie gets married for a third time to civil servant Montague "Montie" Porch, who is three years younger than son Winston.
PHOTOS & MEDIA:
TRIVIA:
• Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill reunited Charles Kay with frequent thesbian co-stars Randolph Pickup and Jeremy Brett, though they had no scenes together.
• Charles Kay appears in the final episode of this series. His character, Montie Porch, was Jennie Jerome's third husband, whom she married on June 1, 1918, and was three years younger than her son, Winston Churchill. Montague Phippen Porch (1877–1964) was a member of the British Civil Service in Nigeria and, at the end of World War I, Porch resigned from the colonial service. In 1921, he returned to Africa to find his fortune. After Jennie's death, Montie married Donna Giulia Patrizi in 1926 (died 1938), who was a daughter of the Marchese Patrizi della Rocca.
LINKS:
http:// Television Heaven
http:// Wikipedia - Lady Randolph Churchill
http:// Remember Lee Remick Fansite
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