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Maggie Smith
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Judi Dench
Self
Eileen Atkins
Self
Joan Plowright
Self
Robert Altman
Self (archive footage)
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)
Roger Michell
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
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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Dec 26 2024

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 limbs and reminiscences by the pound. It's the very meandering, unstructured, nature of this chat that quite engagingly illustrates just how extensively varied the careers of these women has been since ...