The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Overview

After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.

Details

Cast

Judi Dench

Elizabeth

Ian Holm

Patrick

Joan Sims

Betty

June Whitfield

Annie

Olympia Dukakis

Dinah

Billie Whitelaw

Evelyn

Leslie Caron

Madeleine

Cleo Laine

Gwen

Romola Garai

Young Elizabeth

James Cosmo

McNab

Thelma Ruby

Vera

Millie Findlay

Joanna

Felicity Dean

Patricia

Nicholas Palliser

Edward (as Nicholas Pallister)

Valentine Pelka

Leslie

Carla MacKinnon

Carol

Dom Chapman

Paul

John Warnaby

Hibbert