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.
- 7.3
- 2017
- Released
- 1h 30m
Jaime Winstone
Barbara Windsor (Young Adult)
Samantha Spiro
Babs
Nick Moran
John Deeks
Leanne Best
Rose Deeks
Zoë Wanamaker
Joan Littlewood
Barbara Windsor
Barbara Windsor
Honor Kneafsey
Teen Barbara
Florence Keen
Child Barbara
Luke Allen-Gale
Ronnie Knight
Julia Ford
Julie Deeks
Nathan Harmer
Brian Mickey
Marty Cruikshank
Aida Foster
Peter Hamilton Dyer
Producer
Alex Macqueen
Peter CharlesworthCharlie Archer
Scott Mitchell
Jerry-Jane Pears
Jayne Mansfield
Daniel Ben Zenou
Lionel Bart
Lewis Kirk
Johnny Brandon
Tom Forbes
Warren BeattyRob Compton
Ronnie Kray / Reggie Kray
Toby Wharton
Charlie Kray
Adam Lazarus
Theatre Performer (uncredited)
Sue Elliott-Nichols
Barbara's Shoe Shop ManagerTom Machell
Man in Shoe ShopHannah Hutch
Wife
Ross Green
Ronnie Scott
James Atherton
Cliff (Saxophonist)
Dean Roberts
Stan
Todd Von Joel
NeilLewis Maiella
Chuck
Jonathan Rhodes
Peter Noble
Laurent Maurel
Monsieur VincentRob Hughes
Bernard CribbinsRobin Sebastian
Kenneth Williams
Nicholas Asbury
Gerald ThomasJoe Stilgoe
Shepard ColemanJacob Krichefski
Slim Cattan
Cally Lawrence
Wardrobe Mistress
Robert East
Divorce Judge
Matthew Bates
Rosie's LawyerRose Robinson
Hat GirlNicola Munns
Young ActressBilly Burke
Dancer (uncredited)Rebecca Lee
Jayne's Assistant
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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