Nancy Kelley — A “Perfect” Child (1927) 🇺🇸

The latest “perfect child” to come to the front in the land of films is little Nancy Kelley, four and a half years old, of Long Island, who recently played an important role in “Mismates,” with Doris Kenyon and Warner Baxter.

Last year Nancy was entered in a “perfect child” contest conducted by a New York newspaper, and was selected as the most perfect child from Queens, Long Island. From then on, Nancy’s career was a motion-picture one. She played with Gloria Swanson in “The Untamed Lady,” and in “Say It Again,” with Richard Dix. Then First National selected her, after testing nearly a hundred children, to play the role of a little boy in Mismates. She made good with a bang. On the completion of Mismates, Nancy was chosen to play the screen child of Lois Wilson in “The Great Gatsby.”

The little actress has made eight pictures in as many months, which augurs well for her future on the silver sheet.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, January 1927