Career
One of her best remembered roles is that of Lieutenant in the 1943 Paramount wartime drama So Proudly We Hail!. However, she is probably more infamously remembered in the Hal Roach Our Gang comedy short Beginner"s Luck, which was released by M-G-Master in 1935. In that film, Kelly was cast as the pushy stage mother of Spanky McFarland.
Thanks to his friends, she finds herself an unwitting victim, as well as a laughingstock, in the gang"s attempt to sabotage and ruin Spanky"s Shakespearean stage act in a talent competition.
After the war, she appeared in many television series (including Bonanza, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Batman and Perry Mason, from which she made four guest appearances including the role of Millie Foster in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Rolling Bones.".