![]() Sonia Purnell has at long last given Clementine Churchill the biography she deserves. Clementine is both the first real biography of this remarkable woman and a fascinating look inside their private world. ![]() Any real consideration of Winston Churchill is incomplete without an understanding of their relationship. Through the ups and downs of his tumultuous career, in the tense days when he stood against Chamberlain and the many months when he helped inspire his fellow countrymen and women to keep strong and carry on, Clementine made her husband's career her mission, at the expense of her family, her health and, fatefully, of her children. You know, Winston confided to FDR, I tell Clemmie everything. Yet their marriage proved to be an exceptional partnership. Many wondered why Winston married her, when the prime minister's daughter was desperate for his attention. Born into impecunious aristocracy, the young Clementine Hozier was the target of cruel snobbery. Why, then, do we know so little about her? In this landmark biography, a finalist for the Plutarch prize, Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine Churchill her due. Late in life, Winston Churchill claimed that victory in the Second World War would have been "impossible" without the woman who stood by his side for fifty-seven turbulent years. Kristin Scott Thomas portrayed Clementine Churchill in 2017’s “Darkest Hour."Engrossing.the first formal biography of a woman who has heretofore been relegated to the sidelines." -The New York Times From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Woman of No Importance, a long overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill's closest confidante, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor that captures the intimate dynamic of one of history's most fateful marriages. I’m on the diversity committee at the WGA and it’s bad.” Women over 40 work less in all the guilds. “Women actors have few parts and fewer lines in films than men. “The film industry is less interested than ever in women writing, directing, or starring in films,” Nagle said in 2016. Roosevelt, and for her work on HBO’s crime drama “Boardwalk Empire.” She created “Red Band Society,” a medical drama led by Octavia Spencer that ran on Fox from 2014-5, and penned the 2014 Reese Witherspoon-starrer “The Good Lie.” Nagle received Emmy nods and WGA Awards for penning 2005 TV Movie “Warm Springs,” a portrait of Franklin D. ![]() The film is being made with the cooperation of the Soames estate. We feel Nagle is the perfect writer, with her ability to turn history into drama, to adapt this complex story and to bring Clementine to life onscreen.” “It is also a movie about a marriage, and a couple who loved each other, respected each other, fought alongside one another - a couple we can all relate and aspire to, even living in the public eye. “We see this as a film showing audiences an extraordinary woman whose strength and resilience played a major role in the shaping of a nation,” Styler, Rattray and Teitelbaum said. Maven’s Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray are teaming up with producer Sayoko Teitelbaum on the project. ![]() As the source notes, “Clementine was known for her aid work across both world wars, organizing canteens for munitions workers during WWI and serving as a chairman of the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund during WWII as well as chairman of the Fulmer Chase Maternity Hospital for Wives of Junior Officers.” In 1946 she was named Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Two-time Emmy nominee Margaret Nagle has been tapped to pen the script, Deadline confirms.īased on a 1979 biography of Churchill written by her daughter, Mary Soames, the feature will dig into Clementine, or Clemmie’s, integral role in her husband’s political career. Wish “Darkest Hour” had more of Clementine Churchill? Winston Churchill’s wife is stepping into the limelight in a new biopic from Maven Pictures. ![]()
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