The Last of the Blonde Bombshells is a 2000 British/American television movie directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The teleplay by Alan Plater focuses on the efforts of a recent widow to reunite the members of the World War II-era swing band with which she played saxophone.
The film was a joint project of BBC Films and HBO. It premiered in the US on August 26 and in the UK on September 3.
After her husband's death, Elizabeth decides to return to her mu...
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells is a 2000 British/American television movie directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The teleplay by Alan Plater focuses on the efforts of a recent widow to reunite the members of the World War II-era swing band with which she played saxophone.
The film was a joint project of BBC Films and HBO. It premiered in the US on August 26 and in the UK on September 3.
After her husband's death, Elizabeth decides to return to her musical roots and begins busking with young guitarist Paul in a plaza overlooking a London ice rink, much to the dismay of her daughter Patricia and son Edward. One day she is spotted by Patrick, who attempted to avoid enlistment during World War II by dressing as a woman and playing drums with the Blonde Bombshells, a supposedly all-female band with which Elizabeth performed when she was only fifteen-years-old.
The two reminisce, prompting them to begin searching for other band members for a reunion concert at a school dance organized by...
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