The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

About The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

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 me…

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) is a comedy music film directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The film is filed under reunion, disguise, band, and drummer.

Judi Dench takes the lead as Elizabeth, Ian Holm as Patrick, Joan Sims as Betty, and June Whitfield as Annie. It runs 84 minutes and was released in August 2000.

The screenplay is by Alan Plater. It streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel in the United States.