7.1
7.1
The Bad Seed
1956
as Christine Penmark
Nancy Kelly
Acting
Born:March 25, 1921
Died:January 2, 1995(aged 73)
Birthplace:Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
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CommunityBiography
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 (39 movies)
6.6
6.6
Submarine Patrol
1938
as Susan Leeds
6.5
6.5
Murder at the World Series
1977
as Alice Dakso
6.4
6.4
Jesse James
1939
as Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
6.4
6.4
Fly By Night
1942
as Pat Lindsay
6.3
6.3
Stanley and Livingstone
1939
as Eve Kingsley
6.2
6.2
Frontier Marshal
1939
as Sarah Allen
6.1
6.1
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943
as Connie Bryce
6.0
6.0
Follow That Woman
1945
as Nancy Boone
6.0
6.0
Convention Girl
1935
as Betty, Singer-Call Girl
6.0
6.0
The Impostor
1975
as Victoria Kent
5.8
5.8
Tail Spin
1939
as Lois Allen
5.8
5.8
Gambler's Choice
1944
as Mary Hayes / Vi Parker
5.8
5.8
Betrayal from the East
1945
as Peggy Harrison
5.7
5.7
Women in Bondage
1943
as Toni Hall
5.7
5.7
Friendly Enemies
1942
as June Block
5.6
5.6
One Night in the Tropics
1940
as Cynthia Merrick
5.5
5.5
Parachute Battalion
1941
as Kit Richards
5.5
5.5
Double Exposure
1944
as Pat Marvin
5.5
5.5
Tornado
1943
as Victory Kane
5.5
5.5
Woman Who Came Back
1945
as Lorna Webster
5.4
5.4
To the Shores of Tripoli
1942
as Helene Hunt
5.3
5.3
Glorifying the American Girl
1929
as Child (uncredited)
5.1
5.1
He Married His Wife
1940
as Valerie
5.0
5.0
Show Business
1944
as Nancy Gaye
5.0
5.0
Song of the Sarong
1945
as Sharon
4.6
4.6
Murder in the Music Hall
1946
as Rita Morgan
4.0
4.0
Sailor's Lady
1940
as Sally Gilroy
1.0
1.0
A Very Young Lady
1941
as Alice Carter
Private Affairs
1940
as Jane Bullerton
The Storm
1962
as Janet Willsom
The Untamed Lady
1926
Mismates
1926
as Jimsy
The Pig's Curly Tail
1926
as Little Girl
Scotland Yard
1941
as Lady Sandra Lasher
The Girl on the Barge
1929
as Superior McCadden
The Great Gatsby
1926
as Pammy (uncredited)
Circle of the Day
1957
as Barbara Millet
Crowded Paradise
1956
as Louise Heath
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