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