Barbara Kelly was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1924. As a child, she was given elocution lessons, and while Kelly hated the stage her mother was a frustrated actress. Kelly's first professional role was playing the Virgin Mary in a Nativity Play. Her father, an Irishman, was a lorry driver in Vancouver.
Kelly made regular appearances on her husband's show, Bedtime with Braden, in 1950. The next year (1951) she got equal billing with Braden in An Evening at Home with Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly.
After B-And-B, Kelly had few television roles although she did appear in episodes of Hawaii Five-O, Pearl, the 1977 film Lust of a Eunuch and an episode of Magnum, P.I. in 1981.
Kelly was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1978 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Tower Hotel, London. In 1972, the BBC terminated Bernard Braden's late night show, Braden's Week, replacing it with a similar programme, That's Life!, introduced by Esther Rantzen, who had worked with Braden.
Barbara Kelley became executive director in March 2016. Hired by Founder Rocky Stone in 1988, Barbara has been a part of the organization’s growth, serving as editor for the award-winning magazine for more than 28 years. Her position as editor allowed her to influence attitudes, establish lexicon, and give people credible, reliable and timely information, and support, through the printed word. She has also helped manage the office team, served as deputy executive director from 2008-2016, and worked on many of the HLAA programs.
In addition to making her life’s work HLAA, her hobbies once included publishing her own digital magazine and blogging about food and hospitality. Barbara enjoys reading, baseball (spectator not player), yoga, volunteering at school, and most of all, hospitality – cooking tasty food and welcoming people to their home where she lives with her husband and son.
For other uses, see Barbara Kelly (disambiguation). Barbara Kelly (5 October 1923 – 15 January 2007) was a Canadian-British actress, best known for her television roles in the United Kingdom opposite her husband Bernard Braden in the 1950s and 1960s, and for many appearances as a panelist on the British version ...
Kelly made regular appearances on her husband's show, Bedtime with Braden, in 1950. The next year (1951) she got equal billing with Braden in An Evening at Home with Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly.
Kelly's first professional role was playing the Virgin Mary in a Nativity Play. Her father, an Irishman, was a lorry driver in Vancouver.
Almost thirty years later Kelly told Alice Pitman of The Oldie that she was "very bitter at the time, very, very bitter" and recalled that Braden's producer, Desmond Wilcox, who subsequently married Rantzen, had brought together Kelly, Rantzen and newsreader Angela Rippon for a pilot of an afternoon show, although, in Kelly's view, "it was just a front - he wanted Esther, and Angela and I were sort of left dangling".
Jump to navigation Jump to search. Barbara Lilian Kelley MBE (26 August 1920 – 2 March 1998) was a British police officer with the London Metropolitan Police. She was the first woman in the country to be promoted to the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent . Kelley was born in Bridgwater, Somerset. She enlisted in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force ...
Kelley was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1973 New Year Honours. She retired in August 1975.
Kelley was born in Bridgwater, Somerset. She enlisted in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) on 6 June 1940 and was discharged with the rank of Sergeant on 17 January 1946. She was Mentioned in Despatches on 8 August 1944. She joined the Metropolitan Police on 2 December 1946.