Plot
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 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.
Cast
as Barbara Windsor (Young Adult)
as Babs
as John Deeks
as Rose Deeks
as Joan Littlewood
as Barbara Windsor
as Teen Barbara
as Child Barbara
as Ronnie Knight
as Julie Deeks
Gallery
Reviews
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 th…