Babs: Middle-aged actress Barbara Windsor sits on a stage, conversing with John Deeks, the dead father who recognized her talent as a child but disappeared from her life
after her parents divorced, her mother giving her her stage name. From stage school Barbara starts singing at Ronnie Scott’s club, where she meets the charming but crooked
Ronnie Knight, ending up a pregnant prisoner’s wife, in need of an abortion. Things look up when she joins Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop group and gets a part in
Lionel Bart’s ‘Fings Ain’t Wot They Used to Be’. Film and television parts slowly come in, notably the ‘Carry On’ franchise, and despite Joan’s warning that Barbara may...
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