Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981)

Natalie Core, Robert Easton, Stephen Elliott, John Furlong, Julie Johnson ... see more  , James F. Kelly , Maurice Marsac , Donald Moffat , Claudette Nevins , Jennifer Rhodes , Jaclyn Smith , Wonderful Smith , Walter Stocker , Dolph Sweet , Rod Taylor , Ned Wilson , James Franciscus , Roger Til , John Terry Bell , Joseph Chapman , Will Hunt , Vernon Weddle

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 o... read more f socialites "Black Jack" Bouvier (Rod Taylor) and Janet Lee (Claudette Nevins), Jackie spends her early adulthood at the posh Newport estate of a cousin, 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, Rovi