Nancy Kelly
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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Films (39)
Murder at the World Series
1977 · Alice Dakso
The Impostor
1975 · Victoria Kent
The Storm
1962 · Janet Willsom
Circle of the Day
1957 · Barbara Millet
The Bad Seed
1956 · Christine Penmark
Crowded Paradise
1956 · Louise Heath
Murder in the Music Hall
1946 · Rita Morgan
Follow That Woman
1945 · Nancy Boone
Woman Who Came Back
1945 · Lorna Webster
Betrayal from the East
1945 · Peggy Harrison
Song of the Sarong
1945 · Sharon
Double Exposure
1944 · Pat Marvin
Show Business
1944 · Nancy Gaye
Gambler's Choice
1944 · Mary Hayes / Vi Parker
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943 · Connie Bryce
Women in Bondage
1943 · Toni Hall
Tornado
1943 · Victory Kane
Friendly Enemies
1942 · June Block
To the Shores of Tripoli
1942 · Helene Hunt
Fly By Night
1942 · Pat Lindsay
Parachute Battalion
1941 · Kit Richards
A Very Young Lady
1941 · Alice Carter
Scotland Yard
1941 · Lady Sandra Lasher
One Night in the Tropics
1940 · Cynthia Merrick
Sailor's Lady
1940 · Sally Gilroy
Private Affairs
1940 · Jane Bullerton
He Married His Wife
1940 · Valerie
Stanley and Livingstone
1939 · Eve Kingsley
Frontier Marshal
1939 · Sarah Allen
Tail Spin
1939 · Lois Allen
Jesse James
1939 · Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
Submarine Patrol
1938 · Susan Leeds
Convention Girl
1935 · Betty, Singer-Call Girl
Glorifying the American Girl
1929 · Child (uncredited)
The Girl on the Barge
1929 · Superior McCadden
The Great Gatsby
1926 · Pammy (uncredited)
The Pig's Curly Tail
1926 · Little Girl
Mismates
1926 · Jimsy
The Untamed Lady
1926
Séries (14)
The Sunday Drama
1977 · Susan Gibbs
Bronk
1975
Medical Center
1969
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · J.A. Williams / Vera Brandon
Sam Benedict
1962
Thriller
1960 · Janet Willsom
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Presenter
Climax!
1954 · Irene Marshall
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Clare, Sheila
Suspense
1949
Studio One
1948 · Sister Mary Aquinas, Helen, Dorothea
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self