Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Jennie Jerome

1974-11-05 · 60m

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.

Lady Randolph

1974-11-12 · 60m

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...

Recovery

1974-11-19 · 60m

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.

Triumph and Tragedy

1974-11-26 · 60m

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.

A Perfect Darling

1974-12-03 · 60m

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.

His Borrowed Plumes

1974-12-10 · 60m

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.

A Past and a Future

1974-12-17 · 60m

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.