Nothing Like a Dame
You're invited.
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
- 6.8
- 2018
- Released
- 1h 20m
Maggie Smith
Self
Judi Dench
Self
Eileen Atkins
Self
Joan Plowright
Self
Frank Finlay
Self (archive footage)
John Gielgud
Self (archive footage)
Julian Glover
Self (archive footage)
Sheridan Morley
Self (archive footage)
Laurence Olivier
Self (archive footage)
Kim Philby
Self (archive footage)
Vanessa Redgrave
Self (archive footage)
Robert Stephens
Self (archive footage)
Michael Aspel
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Bates
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Devine
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edith Evans
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bob Hoskins
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rory Kinnear
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Morley
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
King Charles III of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Finty Williams
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kenneth Williams
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Williams
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Terry Wogan
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anthony Hopkins
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released
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- #photography
- #conversation
- #female friendship
- #documentary filmmaking
- #octogenarian
- #reminiscing
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Reviews
With something like 30 BAFTA, 15 Oscar and twenty odd Golden Globe nominations between them, this congregation of British Dames was always going to be a good opportunity to mix together these four lively characters with a plethora of archive and the odd sup of champagne. What we get is a mess. There's loads of cross-talking, plenty of witty asides, dead air time, hearing aid malfunctions, aching l