Editing Nancy Kelly (section)

{{Other people}}
{{short description|American actress (1921–1995)}}
{{Infobox person
| name         = Nancy Kelly
| image        = Nancy Kelly 1955.JPG
| caption      = Publicity photograph 
| imagesize    =
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1921|3|25|mf=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Lowell, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1995|1|2|1921|3|25|mf=y}}
| death_place  = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| education    = [[Immaculate Conception Academy (California)]]<br>[[Saint Lawrence Academy (Santa Clara)]]
| occupation   = Actress
| spouse       = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Edmond O'Brien]]<br>|1941|1942|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Fred Jackman, Jr.<br>|1946|1950|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Warren Caro]]<br>|1955|1968|end=divorced}}
}}
| children     = 1
| family       = [[Jack Kelly (actor)| Jack Kelly]] (brother)
| years_active = 1926–1977
| notable_works= {{hlist|''[[Jesse James (1939 film)|Jesse James]]''|''[[One Night In The Tropics]]''|''[[Tarzan's Desert Mystery]]''|''[[The Bad Seed (1956 film)|The Bad Seed]]''|''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''|''[[Studio One (American TV series)|Studio One]]''}}
| awards       = [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]]<br>[[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]
}}

'''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 [[Romantic interest|love interest]] in the classic ''[[Jesse James (1939 film)|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 actor|character role]], the distraught mother in ''[[The Bad Seed (play)|The Bad Seed]]'', receiving a [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]] for the 1955 stage production and an [[Academy Award]] nomination as [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] for the [[The Bad Seed (1956 film)|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 theatre|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.