''Jewels'' is a 1992
NBC
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television
miniseries
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based on the bestselling 1992
Danielle Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth-bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million ...
novel of the same name. Starring
Annette O'Toole
Annette O'Toole (born Annette Toole; April 1, 1952) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Lisa Bridges in the television series '' Nash Bridges'', Beverly Marsh in the 1990 television mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's epic hor ...
and
Anthony Andrews
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, it was broadcast in two parts on October 18 and 20, 1992. The miniseries was adapted by Shelley List and Jonathan Estrin and directed by
Roger Young. ''Jewels'' and its cast and crew were nominated for two
Golden Globe Awards
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and a
Primetime Emmy Award
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.
Cast
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Annette O'Toole
Annette O'Toole (born Annette Toole; April 1, 1952) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Lisa Bridges in the television series '' Nash Bridges'', Beverly Marsh in the 1990 television mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's epic hor ...
as Sarah Thompson Whitfield
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Anthony Andrews
Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor. He played Lord Sebastian Flyte in the ITV miniseries ''Brideshead Revisited'' (1981), for which he won Golden Globe and BAFTA television awards, and was nominated for an ...
as William Whitfield
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Jürgen Prochnow
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He is also known f ...
as Joachim von Mannheim
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Corinne Touzet
Corinne Touzet (born 21 December 1959) is a French actress and producer. She is best known for her starring role as Isabelle Florent in the French police drama series ''Une femme d'honneur'' which ran from 1996 - 2008.
Personal life
She gave b ...
as Emanuelle
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Ursula Howells
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Life and career
Howells was born in London, the daughter of composer Herbert Howells, ...
as the Duchess
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Sheila Gish
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as Victoria Thompson
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Simon Oates
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Born in Canning Town, east London and moving to Finchley in his teens, Oates trained as a heating engineer for his father's firm before ...
as Edward Thompson
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Robert Wagner
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as Charles Davenport
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Bradley Cole
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Early years
Singer-songwriter, actor, and producer, Bradley "Brad" Cole was born and raised in Southern California. He began guitar lessons at 8 years old and was heavily influen ...
as Freddie Van Peering
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Christopher Villiers
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as Phillip
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David Thwaites
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as Phillip, age 16
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Benedict Taylor
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Taylor was born in Hampstead, London, the eldest of six children of father, Richard, a documentary film maker, and Allegra, a writer. Taylor lived in Nigeria until 1965 and then wa ...
as Julian
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Chloë Annett
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Biography
Early life and family
Annett was born and brought ...
as Isabelle
Production
''Jewels'' was adapted from the bestselling
Danielle Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth-bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million ...
novel of the same name by Shelley List and Jonathan Estrin, who also served as executive producers. Directed by
Roger Young, the miniseries was filmed in
Luxembourg
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.
Broadcast and reception
The five-hour miniseries was broadcast in two parts on October 18 and 20, 1992. Tony Scott of ''
Variety
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'' called it "overblown" and wrote that "''Jewels'' barely reaches above pulp". Finding O'Toole, Andrews and Prochnow unremarkable, Scott complimented Villiers' and Taylor's "surprising vitality" as the Whitfield sons and also praised Howells, Gish and Oates as William and Sarah's parents.
Award nominations
''Jewels'' was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV and Andrews was nominated for a
Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV. Composer
Patrick Williams won a
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special for Part I.
References
External links
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1992 television films
1992 films
1990s American television miniseries
Television shows based on American novels
Films based on works by Danielle Steel
Films directed by Roger Young
Films scored by Patrick Williams
NBC Productions films
NBC network original films