Nancy Kelly
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 25, 1921
- Died
- January 2, 1995
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
Murder at the World Series 1977
as Alice Dakso
The Impostor 1975
as Victoria Kent
The Storm 1962
as Janet Willsom
Circle of the Day 1957
as Barbara Millet
The Bad Seed 1956
as Christine Penmark
Crowded Paradise 1956
as Louise Heath
Murder in the Music Hall 1946
as Rita Morgan
Follow That Woman 1945
as Nancy Boone
Woman Who Came Back 1945
as Lorna Webster
Betrayal from the East 1945
as Peggy Harrison
Song of the Sarong 1945
as Sharon
Double Exposure 1944
as Pat Marvin
Show Business 1944
as Nancy Gaye
Gambler's Choice 1944
as Mary Hayes / Vi Parker
Tarzan's Desert Mystery 1943
as Connie Bryce
Women in Bondage 1943
as Toni Hall
Tornado 1943
as Victory Kane
Friendly Enemies 1942
as June Block
To the Shores of Tripoli 1942
as Helene Hunt
Fly By Night 1942
as Pat Lindsay
Parachute Battalion 1941
as Kit Richards
A Very Young Lady 1941
as Alice Carter
Scotland Yard 1941
as Lady Sandra Lasher
One Night in the Tropics 1940
as Cynthia Merrick
Private Affairs 1940
as Jane Bullerton
Sailor's Lady 1940
as Sally Gilroy
He Married His Wife 1940
as Valerie
Stanley and Livingstone 1939
as Eve Kingsley
Frontier Marshal 1939
as Sarah Allen
Tail Spin 1939
as Lois Allen
Jesse James 1939
as Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
Submarine Patrol 1938
as Susan Leeds
Convention Girl 1935
as Betty, Singer-Call Girl
Glorifying the American Girl 1929
as Child (uncredited)
The Girl on the Barge 1929
as Superior McCadden
The Great Gatsby 1926
as Pammy (uncredited)
The Pig's Curly Tail 1926
as Little Girl
Mismates 1926
as Jimsy
The Untamed Lady 1926
Actor
Credits from TMDB.