Nancy Kelly
Acting
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.
Born: March 25, 1921
Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Alice Dakso
as Victoria Kent
as J.A. Williams / Vera Brandon
as Janet Willsom
as Janet Willsom
as Barbara Millet
as Christine Penmark
as Louise Heath
as Irene Marshall
as Self
as Sister Mary Aquinas
as Helen
as Dorothea
as Self
as Rita Morgan
as Nancy Boone
as Lorna Webster
as Peggy Harrison
as Sharon
as Pat Marvin
as Nancy Gaye
as Mary Hayes / Vi Parker
as Connie Bryce
as Toni Hall
as Victory Kane
as Helene Hunt
as June Block
as Pat Lindsay
as Kit Richards
as Alice Carter
as Lady Sandra Lasher
as Cynthia Merrick
as Sally Gilroy
as Jane Bullerton
as Valerie
as Eve Kingsley
as Sarah Allen
as Lois Allen
as Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
as Susan Leeds
as Betty, Singer-Call Girl
as Child (uncredited)
as Superior McCadden
as Pammy (uncredited)
as Little Girl
as Jimsy