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Barbara Windsor with Lionel Bart during rehearsals for Twang! in 1965!
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The career of Barbara Windsor, who has died aged 83, likely brings to mind one of two popular images: her bikini top flying off in Carry on Camping; or throwing people out of her pub as EastEnders’ Peggy Mitchell, the embodiment of her transition to national treasure – from dollybird to matriarch.
But Barbara Windsor was more than the famous bust. She was an accomplished star of stage and screen before she became Carry On’s favourite brassy, bubbly sexpot. “She was eaten whole and swallowed by the Carry On machine,” said Tony Jordan, the EastEnders head writer who also wrote the 2017 TV biopic Babs. Not sure she’s ever said that out loud, but you could argue that, if anything, it spoilt her. Barbara Windsor should not be defined by the Carry On films.”
Babs Windsor: the daring, giggling pearly queen of the screen Mark Lawson
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When Barbara Deeks, a 16-year-old actor from east London, was encouraged to choose a stage name in 1953, it might seem arrogant that she borrowed from the newly crowned Queen of the United Kingdom.
As it turned out, though, the cheeky moniker proved prophetic. It grew to seem entirely fitting that the long-serving monarch should share a surname with a woman who became showbiz aristocracy.
She was accepted as British acting’s Pearly Queen – her Cockney accent and background always important to her career-defining roles – long before Elizabeth II conferred on her the title of Dame of the British Empire in 2016.