Editing Nancy Kelly (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Studio publicity Nancy Kelly.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Studio publicity portrait circa 1940s]]
[[File:Betrayal from the East (1945) 1.jpg|right|thumb|upright|On set with director [[William Berke]] during ''[[Betrayal from the East]]'' (1945)]]
[[File:1963 Nancy Kelly and Ken Kercheval.JPG|right|thumb|upright|Onstage with [[Ken Kercheval]] in ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1963)]]
Of Irish descent,<ref name=l>{{cite news|title=Nancy Kelly Grows Up|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nU8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Nancy+Kelly%22&pg=PA36|access-date=4 July 2015|agency=Life|date=July 18, 1938|page=36}}</ref> 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.<ref name="LAT obit">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-16-mn-20543-story.html|title=Nancy Kelly, 73; Actress Lauded for 'Bad Seed'|date=16 January 1995 |publisher=Oliver, Myrna, [[Los Angeles Times]], January 16, 1995|access-date=2014-06-20}}</ref> Her younger brother was actor [[Jack Kelly (actor)|Jack Kelly]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Nancy Kelly|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/nancy-kelly|website=Hollywood Walk of Fame|access-date=2 July 2015}}</ref> most noted for playing the role of Bart Maverick, one of the leads (alongside [[James Garner]], [[Roger Moore]] or [[Robert Colbert]]) in the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[List of Maverick episodes|television]] series ''[[Maverick (TV 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 |date=May 2023}} 

Kelly was educated at Bentley School for Girls, [[Immaculate Conception Academy (California)|Immaculate Conception Academy]], and [[Saint Lawrence Academy (Santa Clara)|Saint Lawrence Academy]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Nancy Kelly to Head Crime Does Not Pay Drama |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52423811/nancy-kelly/ |access-date=May 30, 2020 |work=Sioux City Journal |date=March 26, 1950 |location=Iowa|page=33|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

As a child model, her image had appeared in so many different advertisements by the time she was nine years old that ''[[The Film Daily|Film Daily]]'' commented, "Nancy has been referred to as 'the most photographed child in America,' largely because of her commercial posing."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Eddy|first1=Arthur W.|title=Short Shots from New York Studios|url=https://archive.org/stream/filmdaily4748newy#page/n1336/mode/1up|access-date=1 July 2015|agency=The Film Daily|date=June 5, 1929|page=7}}</ref>

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]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Radio Program Openings and Closings, 1931–1972|date=2003|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=978-0-7864-4925-5|page=252|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoneCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA252 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Commercial Premiers This Week Unload 11 on WEAF Chain Alone |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/30s/1933/BB-1933-09-30.pdf#page=13 |access-date=April 15, 2020 |magazine=Billboard |date=September 30, 1933 |page=13}}</ref> 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.<ref name="LAT obit"/> She also portrayed [[Eleanor Roosevelt]].<ref name="Dunning">{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22The+March+of+Time,+news%22+%22Agnes+Moorehead+Nancy+Kelly+and+Jeanette+Nolan+as+Eleanor+Roosevelt+and+in+other+roles%22&pg=PA434 |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=434 |edition=Hardcover; revised edition of ''Tune In Yesterday'' (1976)| access-date=June 20, 2014}}</ref>{{Rp|434}}
As an adult, Nancy Kelly was a [[leading lady]] in 27 movies in the 1930s and '40s, including director [[John Ford]]'s ''[[Submarine Patrol]]'' (1938) with [[Preston Foster]], ''[[Frontier Marshal (1939 film)|Frontier Marshal]]'' (1939) with [[Randolph Scott]] as [[Wyatt Earp]], ''Jesse James'' (1939) with Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda, ''Stanley and Livingstone'' (1939) with Spencer Tracy, the comedy ''[[He Married His Wife]]'' (1940) with [[Joel McCrea]], ''[[Parachute Battalion]]'' (1941) with [[Robert Preston (actor)|Robert Preston]], [[Edmond O'Brien]], [[Harry Carey (actor)|Harry Carey]], and [[Buddy Ebsen]], and ''[[Tarzan's Desert Mystery]]'' (1943) with [[Johnny Weissmuller]]. She also starred in the 1949 Broadway play ''[[The Big Knife (play)|The Big Knife]]'' by [[Clifford Odets]]. Kelly was subsequently a two-time winner of the [[Sarah Siddons Award]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Page|first1=Eleanor|title=Nancy Gets Award; Kelly Steals Show|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1965/01/30/page/15/article/nancy-gets-award-kelly-steals-show|access-date=3 July 2015|agency=Chicago Tribune|date=January 30, 1965|page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nancy Kelly Wins Title of Chicago's Actress of Year|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1956/08/21/page/33/article/nancy-kelly-wins-title-of-chicagos-actress-of-year|access-date=3 July 2015|agency=Chicago Tribune|date=August 21, 1956}}</ref> for her work in [[Theatre in Chicago|Chicago theatrical]] productions as well as a [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]] winner for her performance in ''[[The Bad Seed (play)|The Bad Seed]]'',<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lyons|first1=Leonard|title=Vast Audience Startles Writers|newspaper=The Evening Standard |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2729518/the_evening_standard/|agency=The Evening Standard|date=April 26, 1961|page=8|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 1, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref> which she followed up by starring in the [[The Bad Seed (1956 film)|1956 film version]], receiving a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Nancy Kelly|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1436004205505|website=oscars.org|access-date=5 July 2015}}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> She also starred on television, including leading roles in "The Storm" (1961) episode of ''[[Thriller (U.S. TV series)|Thriller]]'' and "The Lonely Hours" (1963) episode of ''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]''. In 1957 she was nominated at the [[9th Primetime Emmy Awards#Best Single Performance by an Actress|9th Primetime Emmy Awards]] for an [[Emmy Award]] for Best Single Performance by an Actress for the episode "The Pilot" in ''[[Studio One (anthology series)|Studio One]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Best Single Performance by an Actress – 1957|url=http://m.emmys.com/bios/nancy-kelly|website=Television Academy|access-date=5 July 2015}}</ref>

Kelly was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] who supported [[Dwight Eisenhower]] during the [[1952 United States presidential election|1952 presidential election]].<ref>''Motion Picture and Television Magazine'', November 1952, page 34, Ideal Publishers</ref>