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Nancy Kelly

Acting
Known For

73 Years Old

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

Lowell, Massachusetts, USA on 25th March 1921

Died

2nd January 1995

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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The Philco Television Playhouse
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Thriller
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Sam Benedict
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Suspense
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
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The Oscars
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Climax!
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Lux Video Theatre
Sheila
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Lux Video Theatre
Clare
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Bronk
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The Bad Seed
Christine Penmark
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Jesse James
Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
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Gambler's Choice
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One Night in the Tropics
Cynthia Merrick
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Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Connie Bryce
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Frontier Marshal
Sarah Allen
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Submarine Patrol
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To the Shores of Tripoli
Helene Hunt
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Stanley and Livingstone
Eve Kingsley
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Tail Spin
Lois Allen
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Sailor's Lady
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Glorifying the American Girl
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The Great Gatsby
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Betrayal from the East
Peggy Harrison
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Woman Who Came Back
Lorna Webster
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Fly By Night
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The Untamed Lady
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Parachute Battalion
Kit Richards
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Nancy Gaye
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Crowded Paradise
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Tornado
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Private Affairs
Jane Bullerton
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The Pig's Curly Tail
Little Girl
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Friendly Enemies
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Convention Girl
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He Married His Wife
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Murder in the Music Hall
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Double Exposure
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Murder at the World Series
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Follow That Woman
Nancy Boone
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The Storm
Janet Willsom
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The Impostor
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Scotland Yard
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Women in Bondage
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Song of the Sarong
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A Very Young Lady
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The Girl on the Barge
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