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Movie poster: Babs (2017)
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2017 · 90 min Drama TV Movie
7.3 / 10 · TMDB

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.

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Year 2017
Country United Kingdom
Genre Drama, TV Movie
Director Dominic Leclerc
Runtime 90 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.3/10 (12 votes)

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The film constructs its narrative as a series of theatrical vignettes, seamlessly weaving past and present on a rehearsal stage. It works with archival footage and precise period details to explore the cost of fame and the power of a stage persona.

What lingers after the curtain call is not just a life story, but a meditation on how personal anguish is alchemized into performative joy for an audience. A tribute to resilience and craft. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Dominic Leclerc

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