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  Judi, Maggie, Joan and Eileen: all hail British theatre's great dames

  The wheeze of bringing together four of Britain’s distinguished theatrical dames – Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith – and letting them reminisce has yielded an extraordinary film which opens in cinemas next week before being shown on BBC TV under the Arena banner. Called, inevitably, Nothing Like a Dame, and directed by Roger Michell, it is both hilarious and, in its mix of present-day recollection and past footage, extremely touching.

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  Nothing Like a Dame review: Mess with Maggie Smith at your peril

  Nothing Like a Dame review: Mess with Maggie Smith at your peril

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  Nothing Like a Dame review – Judi Dench and Maggie Smith trade brutal banter

  Dames united … Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Judi Dench. It is nothing more nor less than an acerbic round-table chat between four of British theatre’s most famed dames: Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, which takes place at the country home Plowright shared with her late husband, Laurence Olivier (I seem to remember it being the site of Melvyn Bragg’s South Bank Show special on Olivier in the 80s).

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  Nothing Like A Dame trailer: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright together on film

  Nothing Like A Dame trailer: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright together on film

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