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07/05/2017 Drama, TV Movie 1h 30m
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Overview

This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation; her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor, inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; her complicated relationship with her father; her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight; capturing the attention of theatre director Joan Littlewood; and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.

  1. Tony Jordan

    Writer

  2. Dominic Leclerc

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jaime Winstone

    Barbara Windsor (Young Adult)

  2. Samantha Spiro

    Babs

  3. Nick Moran

    John Deeks

  4. Leanne Best

    Rose Deeks

  5. Zoë Wanamaker

    Joan Littlewood

  6. Barbara Windsor

    Barbara Windsor

  7. Honor Kneafsey

    Teen Barbara

  8. Florence Keen

    Child Barbara

  9. Luke Allen-Gale

    Ronnie Knight

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-11-15
I’m afraid that the way this story is structured wasn’t my favourite, but it is still quite an engaging look at not just the life of Barbara Windsor but also at just how the film industry was being gradually replaced in the popular psyche by television after the war. There are three actors charged with depicting the various stages of her career, and my favourite was probably Honour Kneafsey as the younger, impressionable and determined young woman growing up in a fairly poverty-stricken East London that was largely in the pocket of the legendary Kray twins. Thereafter it’s an underwhelmi...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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