Tea With the Dames: Directed by Roger Michell. With Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright. Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.

She made her final filmed appearance in the British documentary Nothing Like a Dame (2018) with her acting Dame friends Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins. [10] Plowright was first married to the actor Roger Gage in September 1953.

D ame Joan Plowright recounted how her agent had told her he would find her a part “(Dame) Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on” while reminiscing with famous friends in a BBC film.

The film documents conversations between actresses Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith (all of whom are Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire) interspersed with scenes from their careers on film and stage.

Tea with Mussolini: Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. With Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith. An orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II.

Jan 17, 2025 · Not even four months after Maggie Smith left the Earthly realm, another of her generation’s greats, fellow Dame and celebrated actress Joan Plowright, has passed away. But she once got together...

Jan 17, 2025 · She and fellow screen veterans Dames Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Eileen Atkins appeared together in a one-off documentary in 2018, called Nothing Like A Dame, in which the old friends...

Sep 20, 2018 · But the friends aren’t above some playful ribbing of their pal Jud, who seems to get asked more than anyone else. Judi Dench starts to take offense, but Plowright has a story to back up the...

Sep 2, 2024 · American streaming service AMC+ posted an excerpt from the 2018 film Nothing Like a Dame – Tea With the Dames, outside of the UK. It shows those queens of stage and screen, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joan Plowright, and Dame Maggie Smith (hence the titles), discussing working into their later years. It’s an absolute joy.

Sep 27, 2018 · But you’ll quickly realize watching Roger Michell’s enchanting documentary “Tea with the Dames,” opening Friday, that Judi Dench, 83, Maggie Smith, 83; Eileen Atkins, 84; and Joan...