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.

Known For

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Philco Television Playhouse

Climax!

Medical Center

Studio One

Studio One

Studio One

Studio One

All Movies (39)

• Murder at the World Series1977 · as Alice Dakso
• The Impostor1975 · as Victoria Kent
• The Storm1962 · as Janet Willsom
• Circle of the Day1957 · as Barbara Millet
• The Bad Seed1956 · as Christine Penmark
• Crowded Paradise1956 · as Louise Heath
• Murder in the Music Hall1946 · as Rita Morgan
• Follow That Woman1945 · as Nancy Boone
• Woman Who Came Back1945 · as Lorna Webster
• Betrayal from the East1945 · as Peggy Harrison
• Song of the Sarong1945 · as Sharon
• Double Exposure1944 · as Pat Marvin
• Show Business1944 · as Nancy Gaye
• Gambler's Choice1944 · as Mary Hayes / Vi Parker
• Tarzan's Desert Mystery1943 · as Connie Bryce
• Women in Bondage1943 · as Toni Hall
• Tornado1943 · as Victory Kane
• To the Shores of Tripoli1942 · as Helene Hunt
• Friendly Enemies1942 · as June Block
• Fly By Night1942 · as Pat Lindsay
• Parachute Battalion1941 · as Kit Richards
• A Very Young Lady1941 · as Alice Carter
• Scotland Yard1941 · as Lady Sandra Lasher
• One Night in the Tropics1940 · as Cynthia Merrick
• Sailor's Lady1940 · as Sally Gilroy
• Private Affairs1940 · as Jane Bullerton
• He Married His Wife1940 · as Valerie
• Stanley and Livingstone1939 · as Eve Kingsley
• Frontier Marshal1939 · as Sarah Allen
• Tail Spin1939 · as Lois Allen
• Jesse James1939 · as Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
• Submarine Patrol1938 · as Susan Leeds
• Convention Girl1935 · as Betty, Singer-Call Girl
• Glorifying the American Girl1929 · as Child (uncredited)
• The Girl on the Barge1929 · as Superior McCadden
• The Great Gatsby1926 · as Pammy (uncredited)
• The Pig's Curly Tail1926 · as Little Girl
• Mismates1926 · as Jimsy
• The Untamed Lady1926

All TV Shows (17)

• The Sunday Drama1977 · as Susan Gibbs
• Bronk1975
• Medical Center1969
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as J.A. Williams / Vera Brandon
• Sam Benedict1962
• Thriller1960 · as Janet Willsom
• Climax!1954 · as Irene Marshall
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Clare
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Sheila
• Suspense1949
• Studio One1948
• Studio One1948 · as Sister Mary Aquinas
• Studio One1948 · as Helen
• Studio One1948 · as Dorothea
• The Philco Television Playhouse1948
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self