Nancy Kelly

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Nancy Kelly
One Night In The Tropics
  • Tarzan's Desert Mystery
  • The Bad Seed
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Studio One
    • Spouses
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    (m. 1941; div. 1942)​
    Fred Jackman, Jr.
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    (m. 1946; div. 1950)​
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    (m. 1955; div. 1968)​
    Children1
    Family Jack Kelly (brother)
    AwardsTony Award for Best Actress in a Play

    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

    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.

    Biography

    Studio publicity portrait circa 1940s
    On set with director William Berke during Betrayal from the East (1945)
    Onstage with Ken Kercheval in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1963)

    Of Irish descent,[1] Kelly was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, into a theatrical family. Her mother was silent film actress Nan Kelly, who coached her and managed her career. As a child actress, Kelly appeared in 52 films made on the East Coast by the age of 17.[2] Her younger brother was actor Jack Kelly,[3] most noted for playing the role of Bart Maverick, one of the leads (alongside James Garner, Roger Moore or Robert Colbert) in the ABC television series Maverick (1957-1962). The Kelly siblings, who resembled each other, are not currently known to have worked together in film or television.[citation needed]

    Kelly was educated at Bentley School for Girls, Immaculate Conception Academy, and Saint Lawrence Academy.[4]

    As a child model, her image had appeared in so many different advertisements by the time she was nine years old that Film Daily commented, "Nancy has been referred to as 'the most photographed child in America,' largely because of her commercial posing."[5]

    Kelly worked extensively in radio in her adolescent years. She played Dorothy Gale in a 1933–34 NBC Radio Network show, The Wizard of Oz, based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.[6][7] Kelly was the first ingenue on CBS Radio's The March of Time series, with a vocal versatility that made it possible for her to portray male parts as well as female.[2] She also portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt.[8]: 434  As an adult, Nancy Kelly was a

    Studio One.[13]

    Kelly was a

    Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election.[14]

    Marriages

    Kelly was married to actor Edmond O'Brien briefly from 1941–1942, and then to Fred Jackman, Jr., son of silent Hollywood cameraman and director Fred Jackman, from 1946 to 1950. She was married to theater director Warren Caro from 1955 to 1968.[15] She and Caro had a daughter, Kelly Caro, in 1957.

    Death

    Kelly died at her

    Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.[citation needed
    ]

    Walk of Fame

    For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. She was inducted on February 8, 1960.[17]

    Filmography

    Radio appearances

    Year Program Episode/source
    1945 Suspense "A Week Ago Wednesday"[18]
    1946 Suspense "Dark Journey"
    1946 Suspense [18]

    Suspense episode 169, titled "A Week Ago Wednesday". aired November 29, 1945.

    References

    1. ^ "Nancy Kelly Grows Up". Life. July 18, 1938. p. 36. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
    2. ^ a b "Nancy Kelly, 73; Actress Lauded for 'Bad Seed'". Oliver, Myrna, Los Angeles Times, January 16, 1995. 16 January 1995. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
    3. ^ "Nancy Kelly". Hollywood Walk of Fame. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
    4. Newspapers.com
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    5. ^ Eddy, Arthur W. (June 5, 1929). "Short Shots from New York Studios". The Film Daily. p. 7. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
    6. ISBN 978-0-7864-4925-5
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    7. ^ "Commercial Premiers This Week Unload 11 on WEAF Chain Alone" (PDF). Billboard. September 30, 1933. p. 13. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
    8. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3
      . Retrieved June 20, 2014.
    9. ^ Page, Eleanor (January 30, 1965). "Nancy Gets Award; Kelly Steals Show". Chicago Tribune. p. 15. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
    10. ^ "Nancy Kelly Wins Title of Chicago's Actress of Year". Chicago Tribune. August 21, 1956. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
    11. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
    12. ^ "Nancy Kelly". oscars.org. Retrieved 5 July 2015.[permanent dead link]
    13. ^ "Best Single Performance by an Actress – 1957". Television Academy. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
    14. ^ Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 34, Ideal Publishers
    15. ^ Vosburgh, Dick (January 20, 1995). "Obituary: Nancy Kelly". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
    16. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (January 14, 1995). "Nancy Kelly, 73, Actress Noted In Hollywood and on Broadway". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
    17. ^ "Nancy Kelly". Hollywood Walk of Fame. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
    18. ^ a b "Radio's Golden Age". Nostalgia Digest. 40 (1): 40–41. Winter 2014.

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