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 became a movie leading lady in the late 1930s. She made 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. She had her greatest success in a character role, the suicidal mother in the The Bad Seed, receiving a Tony Award for the 1955 stage production and an Academy Award nomination for the 1956 film adaptation.
Academy Award for Best Actress, Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Single Performance
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Jesse James, The Bad Seed, Stanley and Livingstone, Tarzan's Desert Mystery, Submarine Patrol, Frontier Marshal, He Married His Wife, To the Shores of Tripoli, Parachute Battalion, The Woman Who Came Back, Tail Spin, One Night in the Tropics, Betrayal from the East, Friendly Enemies, Sailor's Lady, ...
Daughter, Kelly Lurie Caro, was born 11 weeks prematurely on January 21, 1957, weighing only 2 lb. 1.5 oz. Father is Warren Caro, a Theatre Guild executive.
Film Daily, Page 7, June 5, 1929 reports: "Little Nancy Kelly...has worked in 23 pics during the past two years; Nancy must be the most photographed child in America due to commercial posing."
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Won Broadway's 1955 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "The Bad Seed," a role she reprised in her Oscar-nominated performance in the film version, The Bad Seed (1956).
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Died the day after her third husband, Warren Caro, died. They had been divorced since 1968.
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Daughter of actress Nan Kelly. Older sister of actor Jack Kelly.
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