The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)

Directed by

Gillies MacKinnon

Genre

LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A recently widowed woman decides to track down and reunite the women who played in her swing band during World War II. The film follows her efforts to bring the old friends back together for a performance.

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What happens

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells is a 2000 British-American television film directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The script by Alan Plater focuses on the efforts of a recently widowed woman to re-unite the members of the World War II-era swing band with which she played saxophone. It features Carry On actress Joan Sims in her final acting performance before her death in 2001, and Romola Garai in her first professional role. The film was a joint project of BBC Films and HBO. It premiered in the US on 26 August, and in the UK on 3 September. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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