Last of the Blonde Bomb Shells

It's never too late for an encore.

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells was first aired in and was produced jointly by the BBC and HBO.

After her husband's death, a widow (Judi Dench) decides she wants to re-kindle her musical roots. Encouraged by her granddaughter, she seeks out the members of the almost all-female band she played with as a teenager during World War II.

The one non-female in the troop was a cross-dressing drummer (Ian Holm) whom she meets by chance in London. Together they start tracking down their old cronies-and find one dead, one mentally incompetent, one in prison, one in the Salvation Army, one alcoholic... Slowly the band grows, but rehearsals are unconvincing. When the singer (Cleo Laine) joins them for the performance, everything comes together.