Actor: Nancy Kelly

foto attore
Birthday: 1921-03-25
Born in: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
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 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.

Known for

The Bad Seed

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Search similar movies
7.1
The+Bad+Seed
The Bad Seed

1956

Search similar movies
Jesse James

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Search similar movies
6.4
Jesse+James
Jesse James

1939

Search similar movies
Tarzan's Desert Mystery

A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they befriend a stranded American lady magician.
Search similar movies
6.0
Tarzan%27s+Desert+Mystery
Tarzan's Desert Mystery

1943

Search similar movies
Submarine Patrol

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Search similar movies
6.6
Submarine+Patrol
Submarine Patrol

1938

Search similar movies
Betrayal from the East

A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
Search similar movies
5.8
Betrayal+from+the+East
Betrayal from the East

1945

Search similar movies
Women in Bondage

Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.
Search similar movies
5.7
Women+in+Bondage
Women in Bondage

1943

Search similar movies
Frontier Marshal

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Search similar movies
6.0
Frontier+Marshal
Frontier Marshal

1939

Search similar movies
He Married His Wife

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
Search similar movies
4.6
He+Married+His+Wife
He Married His Wife

1940

Search similar movies
Parachute Battalion

Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
Search similar movies
5.5
Parachute+Battalion
Parachute Battalion

1941

Search similar movies
Stanley and Livingstone

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Search similar movies
6.3
Stanley+and+Livingstone
Stanley and Livingstone

1939

Search similar movies
Tail Spin

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Search similar movies
5.8
Tail+Spin
One Night in the Tropics

Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
Search similar movies
5.6
One+Night+in+the+Tropics
One Night in the Tropics

1940

Search similar movies