How old was Barbara Windsor in Carry On Camping?

James and Sims are ridiculously old for their roles as a courting couple still trying to get to first base (he was fifty-five, she thirty-eight), as is Barbara Windsor as a naughty schoolgirl (she was thirty-one!).
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How old was Barbara Windsor when she met her husband?

The couple met each other when Mitchell was 37 and Dame Barbara was 63 and despite their sizable age difference, the pair hit it off right away, marrying in 2000.
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What was the nudist film in Carry on Camping?

Gerald Thomas informed the Board that the footage was taken from the film Nudist Paradise, which the BBFC passed A in 1959 (albeit with a different audio commentary), so there were no further issues.
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What time of year was Carry on Camping filmed?

Filming took place between 7th October and 22nd November 1968, primarily in what were then orchards at the back of the Pinewood Studios estate.
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How much was Barbara Windsor worth when she died?

She was also a voice actress who had a net worth of $13 million at the time of her death, and had reportedly left a sum of £4.3 million to her husband by writing it in her will. Windsor, known for her acting as Peggy Mitchell on EastEnders on BBC One, originally appeared on the series from 1994 to 2010.
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British Cinema: Carry On Camping (1969)

How many boyfriends did Barbara Windsor have?

Windsor also dated Gary Crosby in the 1960s and had brief sexual encounters with Victor Mature, Anthony Newley, Ronnie Scott, James Booth, George Best and Maurice Gibb, the latter two while she was still married.
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Was Barbara Windsor in debt when she died?

'What they didn't know behind the scenes is that Barbara had a million pound debt. ' Lorraine jumped in to add that Dame Barbara's debt was through no fault of her own. Scott continued: 'And I was saying to her, you know, “Don't worry, you'll come and live with me in my flat in East Finchley.”
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How much did the Carry-on cast get paid?

The cast were poorly paid—around £5,000 per film for a principal performer. In his diaries Kenneth Williams lamented this, and criticised several of the movies despite his declared fondness for the series as a whole.
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How many Carry-on films were actually made?

The 31 films in the series (if you include That's Carry On , a compilation film released in cinemas in 1978) were all made by the team of producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas between 1958 and 1978, with the belated Carry On Columbus appearing in 1992.
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How old was James in Carry on Camping?

James and Sims are ridiculously old for their roles as a courting couple still trying to get to first base (he was fifty-five, she thirty-eight), as is Barbara Windsor as a naughty schoolgirl (she was thirty-one!).
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Who was the laughing woman in Carry on Camping?

Betty Marsden (24 February 1919 – 18 July 1998) was an English comedy actress. She is particularly remembered as a cast member of the radio series Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne. Marsden appeared in two Carry On films, Carry On Regardless (1961) and Carry On Camping (1969).
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Who was the fat woman in the carry on movies?

Hattie Jacques (/dʒeɪks/; born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen. She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, where she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was also a prolific television and radio performer.
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Where is the house in Carry-on Camping?

The scenes set in the suburbs were filmed at the Iver Heath housing estate in Buckinghamshire, a favourite location for Carry On films due to its proximity to Pinewood Studios.
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Did Barbara Windsor have an open relationship?

In an extract from the memoir shared with The Sun, Mitchell wrote of their sex life: "On only our second date Bar had talked to me in detail about her many, many conquests. She said it was always good to brush the cobwebs away. Ours was not an open relationship, but it wasn't a closed book either."
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Who did Barbara Windsor leave her money to?

Barbara married her younger husband Scott Mitchell in the year 2000 and he helped care for her during the years she battled Alzheimer's. So it came as no surprise that the actress decided to leave most of her fortune to her Scott. According to reports, Barbara's husband was left £4.6 million of her estate.
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What was the age gap between husband and Barbara Windsor?

Windsor and Mitchell were married for 20 years. Their marriage was deemed controversial due to their 26-year age gap - Windsor was 63 and Mitchell was 37.
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Are any of the Carry On cast still alive?

The final surviving regular actor who had a lead role in the films is Jim Dale. Now aged 87, Dale - who is also a singer, comedian, narrator, and author - made his first appearance in 1963's Carry on Cabby.
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What was the last Carry On film ever made?

Emmannuelle marked the end of an era; not only was it the last film for fourteen years, but it was also the last film of the series to star Peter Butterworth, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor and Joan Sims.
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Where did they film Carry On?

Renowned for being low-budget, the producers didn't venture too far from Pinewood Studios with many of the locations being situated in Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead and other areas close to the world-famous studio.
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How much did Phil Silvers get paid for Carry On?

Phil Silvers was paid £30,000 for his role, making him by far, the highest paid star in the history of the series, which provoked a great deal of animosity among the regular Carry On team. The location filming took three weeks, the longest in Carry On history.
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Who did Kenneth Williams leave his money to?

There was a provision for his 87 year old mother Louie, via instructions left to Kenneth's friend Michael Whittaker. However, the remainder of his estate was split between his close friend and neighbour Paul Richardson, his Godson Robert Chiddell and his agent.
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Who appeared in the most Carry On films?

Regular cast
  • Kenneth Williams (1926–1988) (26 films including co-presenting That's Carry On!) ...
  • Joan Sims (1930–2001) (24) first appeared in Carry On Nurse. ...
  • Charles Hawtrey (1914–1988) (23) often played a meek, rather effete 'mummy's boy' who could suddenly erupt into riotous behaviour.
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How many times did Barbara Windsor marry?

Babs was married three times, during her incredible life. Her first husband was Ronnie Knight, and they were wed for 22 years from 1965. Ronnie passed away in June 2023 at the age of 89.
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How old was Scott Mitchell when he married Barbara Windsor?

Despite their sizeable age gap, Scott and Dame Barbara hit it off immediately and began dating and in 2000 they got married when he was 37 and she was 63.
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What did Barbara Windsor have?

In 2018 Mitchell announced that Windsor had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2014. For three years the development of the illness was gradual, but soon after her 80th birthday her condition deteriorated considerably and she withdrew from public life.
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