Lee Remick, actress, and Jennie Jerome

Sep. 09, 1973 - Lee Remick to play Churchill's Mother in TV series: American actress Lee Remick is to play Jennie Jerome, the famous American beauty who became Lady Randolph Churchill, in a series of seven one hour plays being produced by Thames Television as Independent Television's contribution to the celebrations of the Churchill Centenary Year (1974). Known as Jennie throughout her life by close friends, she was also known as Belle Mere to her family and Lady Randolph Churchill to the world in general, after her marriage to the younger son of the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Randolph Churchill, the brilliant politician who could undoubtedly have become Prime Minister had he not died at so early an age. Wife of a potentially great position and mother of the most famous of all English politicians Winston Churchill Jennie was a driving force in her circle and in both these great men's lives. Photo shows Lee Remick (left) pictured today with the parasol Lady Randolph used at her wedding in 1874. On right is the real mother, Jennie Jerome

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