Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1921-03-25
Day of Death
1995-01-02
Place of Birth
Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Nancy Kelly
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 (39)
Murder at the World Series
1977
The Impostor
1975
The Storm
1962
Circle of the Day
1957
The Bad Seed
1956
Crowded Paradise
1956
Murder in the Music Hall
1946
Follow That Woman
1945
Woman Who Came Back
1945
Betrayal from the East
1945
Song of the Sarong
1945
Double Exposure
1944
Show Business
1944
Gambler's Choice
1944
