Nancy Kelly
Acting • Born 1921-03-25 – Died 1995-01-02
Biography
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
55 credits
Fly By Night
Movie • 1942
Pat Lindsay
One Night in the Tropics
Movie • 1940
Cynthia Merrick
The Bad Seed
Movie • 1956
Christine Penmark
Jesse James
Movie • 1939
Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
Betrayal from the East
Movie • 1945
Peggy Harrison
Tail Spin
Movie • 1939
Lois Allen
The Untamed Lady
Movie • 1926
Mismates
Movie • 1926
Jimsy
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Movie • 1943
Connie Bryce
To the Shores of Tripoli
Movie • 1942
Helene Hunt
The Pig's Curly Tail
Movie • 1926
Little Girl
Stanley and Livingstone
Movie • 1939
Eve Kingsley
Woman Who Came Back
Movie • 1945
Lorna Webster
Murder in the Music Hall
Movie • 1946
Rita Morgan
Double Exposure
Movie • 1944
Pat Marvin
Frontier Marshal
Movie • 1939
Sarah Allen
Women in Bondage
Movie • 1943
Toni Hall
Show Business
Movie • 1944
Nancy Gaye
Tornado
Movie • 1943
Victory Kane
He Married His Wife
Movie • 1940
Valerie
Convention Girl
Movie • 1935
Betty, Singer-Call Girl
Parachute Battalion
Movie • 1941
Kit Richards
Submarine Patrol
Movie • 1938
Susan Leeds
Gambler's Choice
Movie • 1944
Mary Hayes / Vi Parker
The Impostor
Movie • 1975
Victoria Kent
The Great Gatsby
Movie • 1926
Pammy (uncredited)
The Girl on the Barge
Movie • 1929
Superior McCadden
Sailor's Lady
Movie • 1940
Sally Gilroy
Scotland Yard
Movie • 1941
Lady Sandra Lasher
Song of the Sarong
Movie • 1945
Sharon
Crowded Paradise
Movie • 1956
Louise Heath
Murder at the World Series
Movie • 1977
Alice Dakso
Friendly Enemies
Movie • 1942
June Block
Follow That Woman
Movie • 1945
Nancy Boone
A Very Young Lady
Movie • 1941
Alice Carter
Private Affairs
Movie • 1940
Jane Bullerton
The Storm
Movie • 1962
Janet Willsom
Glorifying the American Girl
Movie • 1929
Child (uncredited)
Circle of the Day
Movie • 1957
Barbara Millet
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Studio One
TV • 1948
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
Thriller
TV • 1960
Janet Willsom
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Clare
Climax!
TV • 1954
Irene Marshall
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Suspense
TV • 1949
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Bronk
TV • 1975
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Sheila
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Studio One
TV • 1948
Sister Mary Aquinas
Studio One
TV • 1948
Helen
Studio One
TV • 1948
Dorothea
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
J.A. Williams / Vera Brandon