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Nancy Kelly

Nancy Kelly Born March 25, 1921(1921-03-25)
Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.Died January 2, 1995(aged 73)
Bel Air, California, U.S.Years active 1926– 1977Spouse(s) Edmond O'Brien(1941-1942)
Fred Jackman, Jr. (1946-1950)
Warren Caro (1955-1968) Awards won Tony Awards Best Leading Actress in a Play
1955 The Bad Seed

Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was an American actress, born in Lowell, Massachusetts. Kelly was a major movie leading lady in the 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James (1939), which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone later that same year.

Nancy was a child star, who had made so many movies by the time she was nine years old, that Film Daily called her "the most photographed child in America due to commercial posing." She also played Dorothy Gale in a 1933 to 1934 radio show based on the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and was the older sister of actor Jack Kelly, star of the 1957 television series Maverick.

As an adult actress, she was a two-time winner of the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre as well as a Tony Award winner for her performance in The Bad Seed, which she followed up by starring in the film version in 1956 and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also starred on television, including the leading role in "The Lonely Hour" for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1963.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Nancy Kelly has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.

Sister of Jack Kelly

She was the older sister of actor Jack Kelly, who played "Bart Maverick" alongside James Garner and Roger Moore in the television series Maverick (1957-1962). Nancy Kelly and Jack Kelly strongly resembled each other in their facial structures but never acted together in a film. Nancy Kelly's acting career was much more successful than her younger brother's, whose career gradually faded out after Maverick.

On her passing in 1995 from complications of diabetes, Nancy Kelly was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography

The Untamed Lady (1926) with Gloria Swanson
Mismates (1926) with Warner Baxter
The Great Gatsby (1926) with Warner Baxter and William Powell
Girl on the Barge (1929) with Jean Hersholt
Glorifying the American Girl (1929; uncredited) with Mary Eaton
Convention Girl (1935) with Shemp Howard
Submarine Patrol (1938; directed by John Ford) with Preston Foster and George Bancroft
Jesse James (1939) with Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Randolph Scott
Tail Spin (1939) with Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Charles Farrell, and Jane Wyman
Frontier Marshal (1939) with Randolph Scott as Wyatt Earp
Stanley and Livingstone (1939) with Spencer Tracy and Walter Brennan
He Married His Wife (1940) with Joel McCrea
Sailor's Lady (1940) with Joan Davis and Dana Andrews
Private Affairs (1940) with Hugh Herbert and Robert Cummings
One Night in the Tropics (1940) with Allan Jones and Abbott & Costello
Scotland Yard (1941) with Edmund Gwenn
A Very Young Lady (1941) with Jane Withers
Parachute Battalion (1941) with Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien, Harry Carey, and Buddy Ebsen
Fly-by-Night (1942; directed by Robert Siodmak) with Richard Carlson
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942) with John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, and Randolph Scott
Friendly Enemies (1942) with Charles Ruggles
Tornado (1943) with Chester Morris
Women in Bondage (1943) with Gail Patrick
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943) with Johnny Weismuller
Gambler's Choice (1944) with Chester Morris
Show Business (1944) with Eddie Cantor and George Murphy
Double Exposure (1944) with Chester Morris
Betrayal from the East (1945) with Lee Tracy
Song of the Sarong (1945) with William Gargan
The Woman Who Came Back (1945) with John Loder and Otto Kruger
Follow That Woman (1945) with William Gargan and Regis Toomey
Murder in the Music Hall (1946) with Vera Ralston
Crowded Paradise (1956) with Hume Cronyn
The Bad Seed (1956) with Patricia McCormack

External links

Nancy Kelly at Find A Grave
Nancy Kelly at the Internet Broadway Database
Nancy Kelly at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

Ingrid Bergman / Helen Hayes (1947) · Judith Anderson / Jessica Tandy (1948) · Shirley Booth (1950) · Uta Hagen (1951) · Julie Harris (1952) · Shirley Booth (1953) · Audrey Hepburn (1954) · Nancy Kelly (1955) · Julie Harris (1956) · Margaret Leighton (1957) · Helen Hayes (1958) · Gertrude Berg (1959) · Anne Bancroft (1960) · Joan Plowright. (1961) · Margaret Leighton (1962) · Uta Hagen (1963) · Sandy Dennis (1964) · Irene Worth (1965) · Rosemary Harris (1966) · Beryl Reid (1967) · Zoe Caldwell (1968) · Julie Harris (1969) · Tammy Grimes (1970) · Maureen Stapleton (1971) · Sada Thompson (1972) · Julie Harris (1973) · Colleen Dewhurst (1974) · Ellen Burstyn (1975)

Complete list: (1947-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

Categories: 1921 births | 1995 deaths | American child actors | American film actors | American stage actors | Deaths from diabetes | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Irish-Americans | People from Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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