Nancy Kelly

(1921-1995)

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Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was an American actress in film, theater and television. 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), which also featured Henry Fonda, 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.

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Born	25 March 1921 Lowell, Massachusetts
Died	2 January 1995 (aged 73) Bel Air, California, USA
Zodiac	Aries
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Edmond O'Brien 1915-1985 Actor · m. 1941; div. 1942 info edit

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Fred Jackman, Jr. - · m. 1946; div. 1950 info edit

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Warren Caro 1907-1995 · m. 1955; div. 1968 info edit

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Kelly Lurie info 1st child with Warren Caro Female b. 21 Jan 1957 Age: 68 1957- Celebrity Baby

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Jack Kelly · Brother · 1927-1992 · American actor edit info

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Carol Kelly · Sister · 1931-2017 · American, Actress edit info

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Gertrude Lawrence · Friend · 1898-1952 · British, Actress edit info

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Charles Farrell · Friend · 1900-1990 · American actor (1900/1901-1990) edit info

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Nancy Coleman · Friend · 1912-2000 · Actress edit info

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Arleen Whelan · Friend · 1914-1993 · Actress edit info

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David O. Selznick 1902-1965 American film producer info edit view couple »

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Warren Caro

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Married · 25 Nov 1955

Nov 1954 - Sep 1968

Divorced · 1 child

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Fred Jackman, Jr.

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Married · 14 Feb 1946

Feb 1945 - Jan 1950

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Robert Lowery

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Apr - May 1943

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Edmond O'Brien

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Married · 19 Feb 1941

Feb 1940 - Feb 1942

Divorced · 1 photo

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David O. Selznick

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b. 21 Jan 1957

Age: 68

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