much to her adult child chagrin and nearly immediately after elizabeth ( dame judy dench ) husband death and the widowed and attic tenor saxophone player become bent upon openly return to her musical hobby . now that george be dead and elizabeth no longer have to practice play sax in the attic . a she grow more pleased with play in the open and elizabeth take a stroll along memory lane and remembering when she be a 15 year old member of a jazz swing band and the blonde bombshells represent supposedly and an all girl wwii group of talented jazz swing musician . one of the blonde bombshell band member be a womanizing and cross dress drummer and patrick ( ian holm ) and with whom elizabeth remain friend . both patrick and elizabeth 12 year old grand daughter and joanna ( millie findlay ) and press elizabeth to round up the former band member and take up perform together again while this time a a bunch of sexagenarian . among the band member she find be the ( still foxy . ) bass playing and madeleine ( leslie caron ) while dinah ( olympia dukakis ) and a trumpet playing and alcoholic and out speak and money grub divorcée and widow live off of wealth from her many ( ex ) marriage in a craigievar scottish castle while gwen and ( real life u star jazz singer and clio laine ) and have at the lead vocal while annie and ( june whitfield ) and a the salvation army trombone player while betty and ( the late piano player and joan sims ) and who locate train the ivory key in a hastings pub . a elizabeth and patrick and joanna scout the world for member of the 1940 band and try to convince them to resume perform together and elizabeth be oft time beside herself a she learn more than she want to know about their adult live include her own while have a blast playing terrific music with the last of the living blonde bombshell . amusing and nostalgic and historical and sentimental and multi generational entertainment that be seriously fun . the actor deliver wonderful performance . regardless of their age and they be still bombshell entertainer who put on quite a show . ( the dvd be now out and worth owning because of the bonus feature and dolby digital sound ) . surely a a fan of any of these terrific actor the vhs be a collector item .