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Babs / directed by Dominic Leclerc ; performed by Samantha Spiro, Jaime Winstone, Nick Moran, Zoë Wanamaker, Barbara Windsor ; produced by Jules Hussey, British Broadcasting Corporation.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Windsor, Barbara, 1937-2020.
- Windsor, Barbara.
- Windsor, Barbara, 1937-2020--Family.
- Actresses--Great Britain--Biography.
- Actresses.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Biographical films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (89 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Written by Tony Jordan, this is the heartwarming 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 Second World War 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.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 13, 2022).
- OCLC:
- 1336058616
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