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Nancy Kelly

Nancy Kelly

Birthday: 1921-03-25 | Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was an American actress. She became a movie leading lady in the late 1930s, while still in her teens. She made 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, 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. She had her greatest success in a character role, the distraught mother in The Bad Seed, receiving a Tony Award for the 1955 stage production and an Oscar nomination for the 1956 film adaptation.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1956
The Bad Seed

as    Christine Penmark

1946
Murder in the Music Hall

as    Rita Morgan

1945
Woman Who Came Back

as    Lorna Webster

1945
Betrayal from the East

as    Peggy Harrison

1945
Song of the Sarong

as    Sharon

1944
Gambler's Choice

as    Mary Hayes / Vi Parker

1944
Show Business

as    Nancy Gaye

1944
Double Exposure

as    Pat Marvin

1943
Tarzan's Desert Mystery

as    Connie Bryce

1943
Women in Bondage

as    Toni Hall

1942
To the Shores of Tripoli

as    Helene Hunt

1942
Fly-By-Night

as    Pat Lindsay

1941
Parachute Battalion

as    Kit Richards

1941
Scotland Yard

as    Lady Sandra Lasher

1939
Stanley and Livingstone

as    Eve Kingsley

1939
Frontier Marshal

as    Sarah Allen

1939
Jesse James

as    Zerelda "Zee" Cobb

1938
Submarine Patrol

as    Susan Leeds

1935
Convention Girl

as    Betty, Singer-Call Girl