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Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 β 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.
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Filmography
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Movies 38
TV Shows 12
self 2
Murder at the World Series (1977)
The Impostor (1975)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
The Storm (1962)
Thriller (1960)
The Bad Seed (1956)
Crowded Paradise (1956)
Climax! (1954)
Lux Video Theatre (1950)
Studio One (1948)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Murder in the Music Hall (1946)
Follow That Woman (1945)
Woman Who Came Back (1945)
Betrayal from the East (1945)
Double Exposure (1944)
Show Business (1944)
Gambler's Choice (1944)
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
Women in Bondage (1943)
Tornado (1943)
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
Friendly Enemies (1942)
Fly By Night (1942)
Parachute Battalion (1941)
A Very Young Lady (1941)
Scotland Yard (1941)
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Private Affairs (1940)
Sailor's Lady (1940)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
Tail Spin (1939)
Jesse James (1939)
Submarine Patrol (1938)
Convention Girl (1935)
Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
The Girl on the Barge (1929)
The Great Gatsby (1926)
The Pig's Curly Tail (1926)
Mismates (1926)
The Untamed Lady (1926)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1921-03-25
Deathday1995-01-02 (73 years old)
Birth PlaceLowell, United States
RelationshipsEdmond O'Brien (1941 - 1942)
CitizenshipsUnited States
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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