Full length studio portraits. The images showcase Bedells in various productions and costumes. These images were reproduced for the display boards which hung in the Bedells Studio 6, at RAD headquarters, Battersea.
unknownFull length studio portraits. The images showcase Bedells in various productions and costumes. These images were reproduced for the display boards that used to hang in the Phyllis Bedells Studio 6, at RAD headquarters in Battersea.
unknownHalf length portraits. The images showcase Bedells engaging in conversation with Jean Bedells and grand daughter Jenny, as well as entertaining her great grandson Edward who is seated on Jenny's lap.
GBL WilsonThe archive contains a variety of materials – programmes, press cuttings and photographs – which provide a comprehensive record of Bedells’ professional dancing career as well as some personal papers and correspondence relating to her work for the RAD and teaching activities. The complete manuscript of her autobiography, My Dancing Days (1954), is housed alongside several other interview transcripts and scripts for radio programmes or magazine articles presenting a very detailed profile of her life and career.
Bedells, PhyllisOrder of service programme
Transcript of tape recorded interview with PB by Dale Harris, August 26th 1976. Includes Bedells' handwritten corrections and is complete with Donor statement dated 6th May 1979, and covering letter, dated May 18, 1979.
Obituary from The Stage (20 May 1985) and The Daily Telegraph (03 May 1985) (2 copies), plus an article titled 'Ballerina Memorial' from the Hampstead and Highgate Express (20 September 1985)