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.
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Movie Details: Babs
Title | Babs |
Genre(s) | Drama, TV Movie |
Release | May 7, 2017 |
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 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. |
Language(s) | English |
Director | Dominic Leclerc |
Casts | Jaime Winstone, Samantha Spiro, Nick Moran, Leanne Best, Zoë Wanamaker, Barbara Windsor, Honor Kneafsey, Florence Keen, Luke Allen-Gale, Julia Ford, Nathan Harmer, Marty Cruikshank, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Alex MacQueen, Charlie Archer, Jerry-Jane Pears, Daniel Ben Zenou, Lewis Kirk, Tom Forbes, Rob Compton, Toby Wharton, Adam Lazarus, Sue Elliott-Nichols, Tom Machell, Hannah Hutch, Ross Green, James Atherton, Dean Roberts, Todd Von Joel, Lewis Maiella, Jonathan Rhodes, Laurent Maurel, Rob Hughes, Robin Sebastian, Nicholas Asbury, Joe Stilgoe, Jacob Krichefski, Cally Lawrence, Robert East, Matthew Bates, Rebecca Lee, Rose Robinson, Nicola Munns, Billy Burke |
Duration | 1 Hour and 30 Minutes |
Rating | 7.3 |