Nancy Kelly
Acting
Born 1921-03-25
Died 1995-01-02
Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
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Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was an American actress. A child actress and model, she was a repertory cast member of CBS Radio's The March of Time and appeared in several films in the late 1920s. She became a leading lady upon returning to the screen in the late 1930s, while still in her teens, and made two dozen movies between 1938 and 1946, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James (1939), and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone later that same year.
After turning to the stage in the late 1940s, she had her greatest success in a character role, the distraught mother in The Bad Seed, receiving a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 1955 stage production and an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for the 1956 film adaptation, her last film role. Kelly then worked regularly in television until 1963, then took over the role of Martha in the original Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for several months. She returned to television for a handful of appearances in the mid-1970s.
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Filmography
Acting
46 credits
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Climax!
Thriller
Studio One
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
Lux Video Theatre
The Sunday Drama
Show Business
The Bad Seed
Jesse James
One Night in the Tropics
To the Shores of Tripoli
Frontier Marshal
Stanley and Livingstone
Sailor's Lady
Tail Spin
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
He Married His Wife
Submarine Patrol
The Great Gatsby
Murder in the Music Hall
Private Affairs
Gambler's Choice
Fly By Night
Song of the Sarong
Parachute Battalion
Mismates
Betrayal from the East
Glorifying the American Girl
Murder at the World Series
Tornado
Women in Bondage
Circle of the Day
Friendly Enemies
Scotland Yard
Crowded Paradise
Double Exposure
The Impostor
The Girl on the Barge
A Very Young Lady
Woman Who Came Back
Follow That Woman
Convention Girl
The Storm
The Pig's Curly Tail
Other credits
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