Nancy Kelly

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1921-03-25 (74 years old)

Deathday

1995-01-02

Place of Birth

Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Nancy Kelly

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1942

Fly By Night

as Pat Lindsay

1940

One Night in the Tropics

as Cynthia Merrick

1956

The Bad Seed

as Christine Penmark

1939

Jesse James

as Zerelda "Zee" Cobb

1945

Betrayal from the East

as Peggy Harrison

1939

Tail Spin

as Lois Allen

1926

Mismates

as Jimsy

1943

1942

1926

The Pig's Curly Tail

as Little Girl

1939

1945

Woman Who Came Back

as Lorna Webster

1946

1944

Double Exposure

as Pat Marvin

1939

Frontier Marshal

as Sarah Allen

1943

Women in Bondage

as Toni Hall

1944

Show Business

as Nancy Gaye

1943

Tornado

as Victory Kane

1940

1935

Convention Girl

as Betty, Singer-Call Girl

1941

Parachute Battalion

as Kit Richards

1938

Submarine Patrol

as Susan Leeds

1944

Gambler's Choice

as Mary Hayes / Vi Parker

1975

The Impostor

as Victoria Kent

1926

The Great Gatsby

as Pammy (uncredited)

1929

The Girl on the Barge

as Superior McCadden

1940

Sailor's Lady

as Sally Gilroy

1941

Scotland Yard

as Lady Sandra Lasher

1945

1956

Crowded Paradise

as Louise Heath

1977

1942

Friendly Enemies

as June Block

1945

Follow That Woman

as Nancy Boone

1941

A Very Young Lady

as Alice Carter

1940

Private Affairs

as Jane Bullerton

1962

The Storm

as Janet Willsom

1929

Glorifying the American Girl

as Child (uncredited)

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