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Nancy Kelly

Nancy Kelly

Actor · 1921 – 1995 · Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nancy Kelly, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies24

  • Movie7.1

    The Bad Seed

    1956 · 276 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Jesse James

    1939 · 115 votes

  • Movie5.8

    One Night in the Tropics

    1940 · 23 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Show Business

    1944 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.5

    To the Shores of Tripoli

    1942 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Tarzan's Desert Mystery

    1943 · 52 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Frontier Marshal

    1939 · 29 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Stanley and Livingstone

    1939 · 24 votes

  • Movie5.6

    He Married His Wife

    1940 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.7
  • Movie5.6
  • Movie6.7

    Submarine Patrol

    1938 · 7 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie7.0

    Song of the Sarong

    1945 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Betrayal from the East

    1945 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.3
  • Movie6.3

    Tail Spin

    1939 · 7 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Mismates

    1926 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Impostor

    1975 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Woman Who Came Back

    1945 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Women in Bondage

    1943 · 4 votes

  • Movie4.5

    A Very Young Lady

    1941 · 2 votes

  • Movie9.0

    The Great Gatsby

    1926 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Parachute Battalion

    1941 · 7 votes

Series13

  • TV7.9
  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV6.6
  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV6.4

    Medical Center

    1969 · 14 votes

  • TV6.7

    Thriller

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV5.1

    Suspense

    1949 · 12 votes

  • TV6.7

    Sam Benedict

    1962 · 3 votes

  • TV6.7

    Lux Video Theatre

    1950 · 7 votes

  • TV6.8

    Bronk

    1975 · 5 votes

  • TV5.0

    The Sunday Drama

    1977 · 1 votes