Cast: Nancy Kelly

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Nancy Kelly. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Jesse James

1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Henry Fonda · Nancy Kelly · Randolph Scott

Synopsis The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as heroes. Highly fictionalised account of Jesse James and his exploits.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Frontier Marshal

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Randolph Scott · Nancy Kelly · Cesar Romero · Binnie Barnes

Synopsis Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (e.g., Doc is killed by Curley before the actual battle and Earp must do the job alone).

7.1

97 votes

7.1

97 votes

Four O'Clock (TV)

1957 · Movie · 48 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Nancy Kelly · E.G. Marshall · Richard Long · Tom Pittman

Synopsis Paul Steppe, a watch repairman, suspects his wife is cheating on him while he tends to his store every afternoon. Consumed with jealousy, he devises a time bomb set to go off at four o' clock - the same time...

7.1

153 votes

7.1

153 votes

The Bad Seed

1956 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Nancy Kelly · Patty McCormack · Henry Jones · Eileen Heckart

Synopsis Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most "perfect" daughter in the world. But since childhood, Christine has suffered from the most terrible recurring nightmare. And her "perfect" daughter's accomplishments include lying,...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Stanley and Livingstone

1939 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Henry King · Otto Brower

Cast Spencer Tracy · Nancy Kelly · Richard Greene · Walter Brennan

Synopsis An American newspaper searches Africa for a lost explorer.

6.5

156 votes

6.5

156 votes

Submarine Patrol

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Richard Greene · Nancy Kelly · Preston Foster · George Bancroft

Synopsis A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew.

5.9

100 votes

5.9

100 votes

Fly-By-Night

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Richard Carlson · Nancy Kelly · Albert Basserman · Miles Mander

Synopsis After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.

5.6

21 votes

5.6

21 votes

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

1943 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Wilhelm Thiele

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Nancy Kelly · Johnny Sheffield · Otto Kruger

Synopsis 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 and wind up ruining a German's attempt...

5.4

250 votes

5.4

250 votes

To the Shores of Tripoli

1942 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast John Payne · Maureen O'Hara · Randolph Scott · Nancy Kelly

Synopsis Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky casanova Chris Winters, son of an officer, who's just tried to "mash" Mary Carter, a major's niece. Once on base, he finds...

5.0

94 votes

5.0

94 votes

Double Exposure

1944 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction William Berke

Cast Chester Morris · Nancy Kelly · Jane Farrar · Phillip Terry

Synopsis A news magazine hires an out-of-town photographer and the antics begin.

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Show Business

1944 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Eddie Cantor · George Murphy · Joan Davis · Nancy Kelly

Synopsis A song-and-dance man and his comic partner undergo romantic ups and downs when they team up with a female duo and transition from burlesque to vaudeville.

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Friendly Enemies

1942 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Charles Winninger · Charles Ruggles · James Craig · Nancy Kelly

Synopsis During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly...

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Woman Who Came Back

1945 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Walter Colmes

Cast John Loder · Nancy Kelly · Otto Kruger · Ruth Ford

Synopsis An old woman flags down a bus in woods near Eden Rock, Massachusetts. She sits next to Lorna Webster, who's coming home after being away two years. The old woman calls Lorna by name, prattles on about events in the...

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Suspicion (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Medford · James Neilson · Robert Stevens · John Brahm

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Clark Howat · Marian Seldes · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 41 episodes. An anthology television mystery drama series. The executive producer was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

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Women in Bondage

1943 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Steve Sekely

Cast Gail Patrick · Nancy Kelly · William Henry · Tala Birell

Synopsis Margot Bracken returns home to Germany after several years of absence, and is horrified at the degraded status which has been forced on the women of her homeland. Toni Hall is prevented from marrying her sweetheart. Both women speak out...

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Parachute Battalion

1941 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Robert Preston · Nancy Kelly · Edmond O'Brien · Harry Carey

Synopsis In this pre-Pearl Harbor recruiting poster, colonel's estranged son Bill Burke, football hero Donald Morse, and hillbilly Jeff Hollis enlist in the paratroopers. Their training at Fort Benning, Georgia is followed in semi-documentary style, with time out for personal dramas...

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Scotland Yard

1941 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Nancy Kelly · Edmund Gwenn · John Loder · Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.

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A Very Young Lady

1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Harold D. Schuster

Cast Jane Withers · Nancy Kelly · John Sutton · Janet Beecher

Synopsis Tomboy is sent to finishing school where she falls for the headmaster. When her love letters are discovered she okays his relation with a teacher and gets her first kiss from a beau.

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Gambler's Choice

1944 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Chester Morris · Nancy Kelly · Russell Hayden · Lee Patrick

Synopsis The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York. Hadley's main antagonist is his childhood friend Mike McGlennon. McGlennon, now a police lieutenant, is determined to stop the gambling activities...

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