Geronimo1967
Im afraid that the way this story is structured wasnt my favourite, but it is still quite an engaging look at not just the life of Barbara Windsor but also at just how the film industry was being gradually replaced in the popular psyche by television after the war. There are three actors charged with depicting the various stages of her career, and my favourite was probably Honour Kneafsey as the younger, impressionable and determined young woman growing up in a fairly poverty-stricken East London that was largely in the pocket of the legendary Kray twins. Thereafter its an underwhelming and remarkably un-similar Jaime Winstone and then finally a competent Samantha Spiro who, to be fair, probably had the more difficult job of telling her own...