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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 25, 1921
Died
January 2, 1995
Place of Birth
Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Nancy Kelly
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.5
Alice Dakso
Murder at the World Series
1977
6.2
Bronk
1975
6.0
Victoria Kent
The Impostor
1975
6.1
Medical Center
1969
7.8
J.A. Williams / Vera Brandon
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
6.0
Sam Benedict
1962
0.0
Janet Willsom
The Storm
1962
6.4
Janet Willsom
Thriller
1960
7.1
Christine Penmark
The Bad Seed
1956
0.0
Louise Heath
Crowded Paradise
1956
Credits
Murder at the World Series
as Alice Dakso
1977
6.5
Bronk
1975
6.2
The Impostor
as Victoria Kent
1975
6.0
Medical Center
1969
6.1
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as J.A. Williams / Vera Brandon
1962
7.8
Sam Benedict
1962
6.0
The Storm
as Janet Willsom
1962
0.0
Thriller
as Janet Willsom
1960
6.4
The Bad Seed
as Christine Penmark
1956
7.1
Crowded Paradise
as Louise Heath
1956
0.0
Climax!
as Irene Marshall
1954
3.3
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Clare
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Sheila
1950
6.3
Suspense
1949
4.9
Studio One
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Sister Mary Aquinas
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Helen
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Dorothea
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Murder in the Music Hall
as Rita Morgan
1946
4.6
Follow That Woman
as Nancy Boone
1945
6.0
Woman Who Came Back
as Lorna Webster
1945
5.5
Betrayal from the East
as Peggy Harrison
1945
5.8
Song of the Sarong
as Sharon
1945
5.0
Double Exposure
as Pat Marvin
1944
5.5
Show Business
as Nancy Gaye
1944
5.0
Gambler's Choice
as Mary Hayes / Vi Parker
1944
5.8
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
as Connie Bryce
1943
6.1
Women in Bondage
as Toni Hall
1943
5.7
Tornado
as Victory Kane
1943
5.5
To the Shores of Tripoli
as Helene Hunt
1942
5.3
Friendly Enemies
as June Block
1942
5.7
Fly By Night
as Pat Lindsay
1942
6.4
Parachute Battalion
as Kit Richards
1941
5.5
A Very Young Lady
as Alice Carter
1941
1.0
Scotland Yard
as Lady Sandra Lasher
1941
0.0
One Night in the Tropics
as Cynthia Merrick
1940
5.6
Sailor's Lady
as Sally Gilroy
1940
4.0
Private Affairs
as Jane Bullerton
1940
0.0
He Married His Wife
as Valerie
1940
5.1
Stanley and Livingstone
as Eve Kingsley
1939
6.4
Frontier Marshal
as Sarah Allen
1939
6.1
Tail Spin
as Lois Allen
1939
5.8
Jesse James
as Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
1939
6.4
Submarine Patrol
as Susan Leeds
1938
6.6
Convention Girl
as Betty, Singer-Call Girl
1935
6.0
Glorifying the American Girl
as Child (uncredited)
1929
5.6
The Girl on the Barge
as Superior McCadden
1929
0.0
The Great Gatsby
as Pammy (uncredited)
1926
0.0
The Pig's Curly Tail
as Little Girl
1926
0.0
Mismates
as Jimsy
1926
0.0
The Untamed Lady
1926
0.0