Carry On to the Pearly Gates

[Amor de Cosmos]

Barbara Windsor RIP

[MsD]

1. Style icon.

2. Like many Carry On actors, she was capable of much more.

She was fab in those films, though.

We got a glimpse of her potential as a serious actress in her last days of Eastenders, which she played without make-up.

3. She was a Stoke Newington gal, but I used to see her in Marylebone High St a lot in later years, with that wiggly strut, always dressed up to the nines.

[Sporting]

Yep, underrated actor.

Some, er, dodgy friends in her life. How much this was forced upon her by circumstances I am unable to say.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Lovely coincidence that she married a Mitchell in real life.

[Guy Profumo]

People who aren't wearing black armbands should just piss off

[Patrick Thistle]

I remember her being in Eastenders, even though I have never knowingly watched Eastenders.

[Jah Womble]

RIP, Babs W. There were some tremendous comic performers among the Carry On cast, which made many of the films - not all of them - a widely-shared guilty pleasure.

I'm sure she was just fine in EastEnders, however I find that programme completely unwatchable.

[diggedy derek]

Mindboggling that she was in Eastenders for 22 years. Wow. There's a super cut doing the rounds of all the many, many times she slapped someone in the programme which is either funny or moronic or both depending on how you want to view it.

[MsD]

I went through phases of watching Stenders.

Babs’ long turn as Peggy makes the ridiculous TA Oberman’s claim to have been “Britain’s favourite pub landlady” even more ludicrous.

[MsD]

[Nefertiti2]

Babs on Gove

https://twitter.com/drmatthewsweet/status/1337285455201636352?s=21

[Paul S]

There can't be many of the Carry On stars left alive, I know that Jim Dale is still alive but I'm not sure of any others. Barabara Windsor was very good in the Carry Ons but it was in Eastenders where she showed what a great actress she really is.

[MsD]

She was descended from one of the Match Girls.

[elguapo4]

Great picture ,even though Kenneth Williams could be a bit of a prick when he wanted to be.

[treibeis]

There can't be many of the Carry On stars left alive, I know that Jim Dale is still alive but I'm not sure of any others.

Leslie Phillips. And Mike Baldwin.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Great picture ,even though Kenneth Williams could be a bit of a prick when he wanted to be.

"I must say I like this Barbara Windsor. She is a charming little girl." Kenneth Williams Diary; Thursday, 6 February 1964.

[Artificial Hipster]

What a gorgeous picture. Her episode of WDYTYA was very moving too.

[Nefertiti2]

Respecting the dead..

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1337700760516227072?s=21

[jwdd27]

Leslie Phillips. And Mike Baldwin.

Julian Holloway was in a handful of them, when a younger man who wasn't Jim Dale was called for. He's still with us at 76, although is better known as the son of Stanley Holloway, and father of Sophie Dahl.

[Gangster Octopus]

Major Shorthouse.

[Jah Womble]

Leslie Phillips. And Mike Baldwin.

Well, ‘Johnny Briggs’. Don’t think he showed up as his Coronation Street alias.