Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

• Director: Steven Gethers
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Biopic, Docudrama
• Main Cast: James Franciscus, Donald Moffat, Claudette Nevins, Jaclyn Smith, Rod Taylor
• Release Year: 1981
• Country: US
• Run Time: 150 minutes

Plot

Jaclyn Smith trades the flimsy costumes of Charlie's Angels for the pink pillbox hat and white gloves of the former First Lady of the Land in the made-for-TV Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The daughter of socialites "Black Jack" Bouvier (Rod Taylor) and Janet Lee (Claudette Nevins), Jackie spends her early adulthood at the posh Newport estate of her stepfather, Louis Auchincloss (Donald Moffat). In 1953, 24-year-old Jackie marries Senator John F. Kennedy (James Franciscus), himself a child of privilege. The film follows the King and Queen of "Camelot" through Kennedy's 1960 election as President, the tragedy of Jackie's highly publicized miscarriage in the summer of 1963, and the JFK assassination in the fall of that year. All things considered, Jaclyn Smith does a pretty creditable job capturing the "public" Jackie Kennedy, even if the "private" Jackie remains as elusive as she was in real life. (Sidebar: Though "Camelot" is heard on the soundtrack, the real Jackie Kennedy would later note that it was not her husband's favorite song, never mind the legend-weavers in the Kennedy camp). Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was first broadcast October 14, 1981. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Natalie Core - JFK's Secretary; Robert Easton - David Finley; Stephen Elliott - Joseph P. Kennedy; John Furlong - Politician; Julie Johnson - Sue Norton; James F. Kelly - Bobby Kennedy; Maurice Marsac - Gen. Charles DeGaulle; Donald Moffat - Hugh Auchincloss; Claudette Nevins - Janet Bouvier Auchincloss; Jennifer Rhodes - Press Secretary; Jaclyn Smith - Jacqueline Kennedy; Wonderful Smith - Butler; Walter Stocker - Charles Collingwood; Dolph Sweet - Waldrop; Rod Taylor - Jack Bouvier; Ned Wilson - Senator; James Franciscus - John F. Kennedy; Roger Til - Monnet; John Terry Bell - Mr. Ross; Joseph Chapman - John Husted; Will Hunt - Theodore White; Vernon Weddle - Aide

Credit

Caro Jones - Casting, William Travilla - Costume Designer, Steven Gethers - Director, Billy Goldenberg - Composer (Music Score), Michael Baugh - Production Designer, Isidore Mankofsky - Cinematographer

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