A (BBC Arena) Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage

A (BBC Arena) Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage

60 mins | Documentary | Feb. 17, 1984

As much a parody of the typical BBC documentary style as an extravagant curtsy to Dame Edna Everage, Housewife Superstar. The Dame is known mostly through her special broadcast in 1983; in Britain s/he is a household name. This 1984 birthday tribute is a deeply probing investigative profile of one of the world's spookiest celebrities.

A (BBC Arena) Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage

60 mins | Documentary | Feb. 17, 1984

A (BBC Arena) Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
As much a parody of the typical BBC documentary style as an extravagant curtsy to Dame Edna Everage, Housewife Superstar. The Dame is known mostly through her special broadcast in 1983; in Britain s/he is a household name. This 1984 birthday tribute is a deeply probing investigative profile of one of the world's spookiest celebrities.
Producers BBC
Original title A (BBC Arena) Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
Directors Julian Jebb
Writers

Cast

Barry Humphries

as Edna Everage

David Dimbleby

as Self