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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (TV 2000)A woman tries to reunite the swing band she played with during WWII. Director:Gillies MacKinnonWriter:Alan Plater |
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Elizabeth
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| Ian Holm | ... |
Patrick
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| Leslie Caron | ... |
Madeleine
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| Olympia Dukakis | ... |
Dinah
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Cleo Laine | ... |
Gwen
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Joan Sims | ... |
Betty
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| Billie Whitelaw | ... |
Evelyn
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June Whitfield | ... |
Annie
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Thelma Ruby | ... |
Vera
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Millie Findlay | ... |
Joanna (Elizabeth's granddaughter)
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| Felicity Dean | ... |
Patricia
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Nicholas Palliser | ... |
Edward
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Valentine Pelka | ... |
Leslie
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Carla MacKinnon | ... |
Carol
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Dom Chapman | ... |
Paul (street musician)
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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. Written by Kathy Li
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Release Date:
26 August 2000 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Az utolsó szőke bombázó See more »Company Credits
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Home Box Office (HBO), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Universal TV See more »
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Dinah: Sorry, babe, this is not negotiable. Drunk I can't play a note, sober I can't play a note but there's a part in the middle where I play like a goddamn angel.
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When the girls are walking across the rubble after the bombings we see one of the girls in a red coat wearing trainers. See more »Quotes
[Betty the Bandleader has just reminded the band that there's to be no drinking on stage to which the alcoholic Dinah replies:]Dinah: Sorry, babe, this is not negotiable. Drunk I can't play a note, sober I can't play a note but there's a part in the middle where I play like a goddamn angel.
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The Blonde Bombshells were an all-British World War II jazz band/big band. It was nearly an all-girl band, too, except for Patrick (Ian Holm), the drummer. Judi Dench, a saxaphonist for the group, wishes to reunite the Blonde Bombshells for a gig at her granddaughter's school dance. The idea is slightly comparable to Penny Marshall's "A League of Their Own," except there is about even focus on both past and present whereas Marshall's film is primarily all flashback.
It is a charming little film with great performances by British (Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron), American (Olympia Dukakis), and Jazz heavyweights (Cleo Laine) who provide that sentimental charm and excellent humor to make this a fine film.