Dame 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. Documentary Nothing ...

(Left to right) Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Judi Dench (BBC/PA) PA Media Teasing her friend, she said an agent once warned her about seven-time Oscar nominee Dame Judi snaffling ...

JUDI DENCH: Are we going to go on working forever, Joan? PLOWRIGHT: Oh, my agent in America said to me when he knew I ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen ... Dame Joan was one of a generation of great acting dames, and appeared opposite Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith in the ...