Judi Dench: Behind the Scenes

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I adore Dame Judi Dench. She's a brilliant actor, and she has such presence and grace and a wicked gleam in her eye that suggests she'd be enormous fun just to hang about with. So it is rather understandable that I wanted to browse through this lovely collection of photographs and anecdotes, mostly related to Dench's professional life, but with a few personal notes about her late husband Michael Williams (another fine actor with a wicked gleam in his eye - what fun the two of them must have been together), her daughter Finty Williams, and her grandson Sammy.

Dench has acted, on stage and in film, with many of the best actors of our era, and many of them are pixtured here, in publicity photos from so many of the projects Dench has worked on over the years. Dench's commentary on the various projects is a delightful, if brief, glimpse "behind the scenes" of a remarkable career.

Fun for fans of the incomparable Dame Dench, or of British theatre in general.