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