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Post by jno on Dec 11, 2020 3:25:51 GMT
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Post by daz on Dec 11, 2020 7:32:33 GMT
Been expected for a while. A horrible disease.
RIP Barbara
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Post by Wynn Chester on Dec 11, 2020 8:45:33 GMT
One of my first TV crushes... rest in peace bubbly Babs ☹️
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Post by bodiesstuntdouble on Dec 11, 2020 10:36:51 GMT
It's an overused word but she really was a (pop culture) icon
Pre Carry On she was a member of Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre company that was giving working class actors and writers the opportunity to portray more than criminals on stage and she shines in the film adaptation of Sparrows Can't Sing. A successful Broadway run of Oh What A Lovely War earned her a Tony award before capturing the nation's heart as the perrenial cheeky blonde in several Carry On's.
After a mid career lull she joined the cast of EastEnders as pub matriarch Peggy Mitchell and a Damehood ensued.
Rest in peace dear lady
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Post by coyote on Dec 11, 2020 14:05:48 GMT
Yes, sad news. Watching all the clips with Sid, Kenneth, Hattie and co reminded me they're all gone too - Barbara outlived them all by quite some way. I think from the "main" regular cast only Jim Dale is left now.
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Post by felixdeburgh on Dec 11, 2020 15:45:06 GMT
At the risk of name dropping, I met her briefly in 2004 (I think) as I was speaking to Dale Winton. She was meeting him for lunch and as she was walking towards us in true Babs style, all I could hear in my head was the Carry On music. She was great and more than happy to chat for a bit. I must have seen that clip of her approaching Sid James in the hospital bed as he’s having his blood pressure taken at least half a dozen times today and it still makes me laugh every time.
RIP.
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Post by McCann on Dec 11, 2020 20:53:42 GMT
I was surprised she was 83. She would have been 36 or 37 when she finished in Carry on. But because she was petite she seemed younger.
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Post by coyote on Dec 11, 2020 21:03:57 GMT
I was surprised she was 83. She would have been 36 or 37 when she finished in Carry on. But because she was petite she seemed younger. Just looked it up and she was 24 years Sid's junior. Didn't realise it was that much. Most 'Carry On' fans will have seen it but the dramatised version of their relationship "Cor, Blimey!" is well worth a watch if you haven't. One really nice thing that's come out of all the tributes today was how great friends she was with the 'Carry On' cast and especially with KW, who was notoriously prickly. Although it didn't all work out for Barbara in that way when Kenny invited himself on her honeymoon with Ronnie Knight and brought his mum Louie to boot!  Everybody - and I mean everybody - of all the many, many people to talk about her today have said what a genuinely lovely woman she was, which is nice to hear. |
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Post by daz on Dec 11, 2020 22:25:12 GMT
Probably been mentioned in the appropriate thread, but really amazing she never did an episode of Minder. She would have been perfect for it.
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Post by ontheslate on Dec 12, 2020 7:35:36 GMT
Although I didn’t like her eastenders character she was great in sparras can’t sing and other roles and in real life was I heard a genuinely nice person as previously stated by others she would always talk to her fans
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Post by plasticpenguin on Dec 14, 2020 1:20:46 GMT
British icon. It's strange because she made her name in the Carry Ons yet she only appeared in 8 or 9 of them. Still find that quite staggering.
Always came across as being down to earth. Umm, sad loss.
R.I.P. Babs.
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Post by bensonrad on Dec 14, 2020 8:40:20 GMT
RIP Barbara, loved her in the Carry Ons and as Peggy in Eastenders, I've been reliving the Eastenders mid 90s era with her at the mo during my lunchbreaks on Drama channel. I was lucky enough to meet her at a Carry On event at Pinewood back in 1998 and she was very nice.
I was watching a few old interviews at the weekend on youtube along with her This is your life, one thing that struck me was just how huge her social circle was, she seemed to know everyone, always lunching having people stay, she certainly transended several era's.
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Post by Portland Road on Dec 16, 2020 22:30:57 GMT
Peter Gilmore in 'Carry On Doctor': "Ooooh what a lovely pear....!"
Julian Holloway in 'Carry On Camping': "....bit of rear-wheel drive, eh!"
Innuendo was good in the 60s, when it was just that, and not the smut that it became by the late 70s-early 80s.
R.I.P. Barbara Windsor, always seemed much younger.
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Post by westldner on Dec 23, 2020 23:57:52 GMT
RIP Dame Barbara Windsor
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Post by joshmel on Dec 25, 2020 1:34:32 GMT
Something tells me we have seen the last of the era of the brilliant Barbara Windsor and that typical gawd blimey cockey. In time we will harbour back to the uniqueness of her character as the gentrification of London takes over. How could a working class lass like that ever climb up the social ladder and stamp her mark on an money making industry which movie and television has become... She wasn’t just an actress but a symbol of what been british is all about. RIP
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Post by thewoodster on Jan 5, 2021 12:58:00 GMT
RIP dame Barbara.
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