Silver Spring, MD — The star-studded, multi-award-winning miniseries, Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill debuts on DVD from Acorn Media on June 29, 2010. In this lavish period drama, Oscar® and six-time Emmy® nominee Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses, The Omen, Six Centuries of Verse) delivers an incandescent performance as vivacious, adventurous Jennie Jerome – Winston Churchill’s American mother. Remick won the best TV actress Golden Globe® and BAFTA Award, as well as an Emmy® nomination for her role. Written by playwright Julian Mitchell, who drew on private letters and papers from the Churchill family, Jennie is a captivating portrait of a spirited American woman (DVD 2-Disc, www.AcornOnline.com, $49.99).

Follow Jennie through her extraordinary life, from her first meeting with Lord Randolph Churchill (Ronald Pickup, Fortunes of War, Behaving Badly) at the young age of 19 through their whirlwind marriage, Winston’s youth, a feud with the Prince of Wales, exile in Ireland, Randolph’s death, and two more marriages: the first to a man the same age as her son, the second to one even younger!

Filmed on location in family homes including Blenheim Palace, the series also stars Warren Clarke (Dalziel and Pascoe, The Invisibles) as Winston, Christopher Cazenove (The Duchess of Duke Street, Dynasty), Siân Phillips (I, Claudius), and Jeremy Brett (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) as Count Kinsky, Lady Jennie’s great love.

Broadcast on PBS in 1975, the miniseries received six Emmy nominations, winning one for costume design; four BAFTA nominations including best drama series; and won a Director’s Guild of America Award.

Street: June 29, 2010
DVD 2-Disc Set: 7 episodes - Approx. 361 min.
BONUS: Lee Remick biography, history of Blenheim Palace, and cast filmographies
SRP: $49.99

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