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

• 1977Murder at the World Series — Alice Dakso
• The Sunday Drama — Susan Gibbs
• Bronk
• 1975The Impostor — Victoria Kent
• Medical Center
• Sam Benedict
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — J.A. Williams / Vera Brandon
• 1962The Storm — Janet Willsom
• Thriller — Janet Willsom
• 1957Circle of the Day — Barbara Millet
• 1956Crowded Paradise — Louise Heath
• 1956The Bad Seed — Christine Penmark
• Climax! — Irene Marshall
• Lux Video Theatre — Clare, Sheila
• Suspense
• Studio One — Sister Mary Aquinas, Helen, Dorothea
• The Philco Television Playhouse
• 1946Murder in the Music Hall — Rita Morgan
• 1945Betrayal from the East — Peggy Harrison
• 1945Follow That Woman — Nancy Boone
• 1945Song of the Sarong — Sharon
• 1945Woman Who Came Back — Lorna Webster
• 1944Double Exposure — Pat Marvin
• 1944Gambler's Choice — Mary Hayes / Vi Parker
• 1944Show Business — Nancy Gaye
• 1943Tarzan's Desert Mystery — Connie Bryce
• 1943Tornado — Victory Kane
• 1943Women in Bondage — Toni Hall
• 1942Fly By Night — Pat Lindsay
• 1942Friendly Enemies — June Block
• 1942To the Shores of Tripoli — Helene Hunt
• 1941A Very Young Lady — Alice Carter
• 1941Parachute Battalion — Kit Richards
• 1941Scotland Yard — Lady Sandra Lasher
• 1940He Married His Wife — Valerie
• 1940One Night in the Tropics — Cynthia Merrick
• 1940Private Affairs — Jane Bullerton
• 1940Sailor's Lady — Sally Gilroy
• 1939Frontier Marshal — Sarah Allen
• 1939Jesse James — Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
• 1939Stanley and Livingstone — Eve Kingsley
• 1939Tail Spin — Lois Allen
• 1938Submarine Patrol — Susan Leeds
• 1935Convention Girl — Betty, Singer-Call Girl
• 1929Glorifying the American Girl — Child (uncredited)
• 1929The Girl on the Barge — Superior McCadden
• 1926Mismates — Jimsy
• 1926The Great Gatsby — Pammy (uncredited)
• 1926The Pig's Curly Tail — Little Girl
• 1926The Untamed Lady

Appearances as themselves (2)

• The Oscars — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self