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Nancy Kelly
Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
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…
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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.
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1977
The Sunday Drama
TV show Susan Gibbs
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1977
Murder at the World Series
Movie Alice Dakso
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1975
Bronk
TV show
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1975
The Impostor
Movie Victoria Kent
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1969
Medical Center
TV show
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1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV show J.A. Williams / Vera Brandon
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1962
Sam Benedict
TV show
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1962
The Storm
Movie Janet Willsom
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1960
Thriller
TV show Janet Willsom
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1957
Circle of the Day
Movie Barbara Millet
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1956
The Bad Seed
Movie Christine Penmark
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1956
Crowded Paradise
Movie Louise Heath
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1954
Climax!
TV show Irene Marshall
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
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1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV show Clare
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1949
Suspense
TV show
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1948
Studio One
TV show
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1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV show
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV show Self
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1946
Murder in the Music Hall
Movie Rita Morgan
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1945
Follow That Woman
Movie Nancy Boone
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1945
Woman Who Came Back
Movie Lorna Webster
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1945
Betrayal from the East
Movie Peggy Harrison
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1945
Song of the Sarong
Movie Sharon
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1944
Double Exposure
Movie Pat Marvin
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1944
Show Business
Movie Nancy Gaye
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1944
Gambler's Choice
Movie Mary Hayes / Vi Parker
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1943
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Movie Connie Bryce
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1943
Women in Bondage
Movie Toni Hall
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1943
Tornado
Movie Victory Kane
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1942
Friendly Enemies
Movie June Block
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1942
To the Shores of Tripoli
Movie Helene Hunt
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1942
Fly By Night
Movie Pat Lindsay
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1941
Parachute Battalion
Movie Kit Richards
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1941
A Very Young Lady
Movie Alice Carter
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1941
Scotland Yard
Movie Lady Sandra Lasher
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1940
One Night in the Tropics
Movie Cynthia Merrick
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1940
Sailor's Lady
Movie Sally Gilroy
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1940
Private Affairs
Movie Jane Bullerton
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1940
He Married His Wife
Movie Valerie
