Why Dame Judi Dench owes her spectacular career to the family of a Shropshire hall
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In 1957, the director of the Old Vic in London took a chance on a teenage girl straight out of drama school, casting her as Ophelia in a production of Hamlet.
67 years later you might have heard of her - now, national treasure, Dame Judi Dench.
That director was Michael Pickersgill Benthall, nephew to Sir Paul Benthall, one of many Benthalls to have called the Broseley hall home.
