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Paula Kelly is a Actor and Choreographer American born on 21 october 1943

Paula Kelly

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Nationality USA
Birth 21 october 1943
Death 8 february 2020 (at 76 years)

Paula Kelly (born October 21, 1943) is a dancer and actress in motion pictures, television and theatre. Kelly made her Broadway debut as Mrs. Veloz in the 1964 musical Something More!, sharing the stage with Barbara Cook. Her other Broadway credits include The Dozens (1969), Paul Sills' Story Theatre (1971), Ovid's Metamorphoses (1971), and Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies (1981) with Gregory Hines and Phyllis Hyman.

Biography

Paula Kelly entame sa carrière d'actrice et de danseuse sur la scène et joue entre autres à Broadway, où elle débute en 1964, dans la comédie musicale Something More! (musique de Sammy Fain, avec Barbara Cook, Ronny Graham et Arthur Hill). Suit la pièce de Laird Koenig The Dozens en 1969 (avec Morgan Freeman), avant deux autres en 1970 et 1971.

Hors Broadway, elle contribue notamment en 1967 à la création londonienne de la comédie musicale Sweet Charity (musique de Cy Coleman), avec Juliet Prowse dans le rôle-titre. Une autre de ses comédies musicales notables est Pippin (musique et lyrics de Stephen Schwartz), représentée en tournée américaine courant 1978.

Au cinéma, Paula Kelly apparaît à ce jour dans seulement quinze films, majoritairement américains. Le premier est Sweet Charity de Bob Fosse (avec Shirley MacLaine dans le rôle-titre), adaptation de la comédie musicale éponyme précitée, sortie en 1969, où elle reprend le rôle d'Hélène qu'elle tenait à Londres. Parmi ses quatorze autres films (le dernier sorti en 1995), citons Soleil vert de Richard Fleischer (1973, avec Charlton Heston), Les Durs de Duccio Tessari (coproduction franco-italo-américaine, 1974, avec Lino Ventura et Isaac Hayes), et Bank Robber de Nick Mead (1993, avec Patrick Dempsey).

Pour la télévision, Paula Kelly collabore entre 1968 et 1999 à trente-et-une séries, dont Sergent Anderson (trois épisodes, 1975-1977), Les Rues de San Francisco (deux épisodes, 1976) et le feuilleton Santa Barbara (vingt-quatre épisodes, 1984-1985). S'y ajoutent quatre téléfilms, dont Uncle Tom's Cabin de Stan Lathan (1987, avec Avery Brooks).

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Filmography of Paula Kelly (18 films)

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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored, 1h55
Directed by Tim Reid
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Actors Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashād, Karen Malina White, Richard Roundtree, Isaac Hayes, Anna Maria Horsford
Roles Ma Pearl
Rating73% 3.6843853.6843853.6843853.6843853.684385
The film takes place in Glen Allan, Mississippi, during the mid-1900s. In the early stages of the film, the audience gains more knowledge regarding Cliff’s upbringing. His biological mother was too young to take care of him and was not able to provide Cliff with financial support therefore he was raised by his extended family. Ma Pearl and Poppa begin to take care of him but after a couple of years, Ma Ponk begins to take care of Cliff and ultimately raises him, with the help of Poppa. Ma Pearl’s character is played by Paula Kelly, and Ma Ponk’s character is played by Phylicia Rashad.
Bank Robber, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Patrick Dempsey, Lisa Bonet, Judge Reinhold, Forest Whitaker, Olivia D'Abo, Mariska Hargitay
Roles Mother
Rating44% 2.222392.222392.222392.222392.22239
Billy (Dempsey), is a well dressed bank robber who decides to do one last heist so he can sail off to a tropical island with his girlfriend, Selina (d'Abo). On his last robbery, he forgets to destroy a surveillance camera. He then must hide out in the Heartbreak Hotel until he can get out of trouble.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1h50
Directed by Stan Lathan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about racism
Actors Samuel L. Jackson, Avery Brooks, Kate Burton, Bruce Dern, Paula Kelly, Phylicia Rashād
Roles Cassy
Rating62% 3.1049953.1049953.1049953.1049953.104995
L'Oncle Tom et Eliza sont tous deux esclaves de la même maison dans le Kentucky.
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, 1h37
Directed by Richard Pryor
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Debbie Allen, Michael Ironside, Richard Pryor, Art Evans, Carmen McRae, Barbara Williams
Roles Satin Doll
Rating62% 3.148693.148693.148693.148693.14869
Pryor plays Jo Jo Dancer, a popular stand-up comedian who has severely burned himself while freebasing cocaine. The film came out after Pryor had set himself on fire in an attempted suicide.
Drum
Drum (1976)
, 1h50
Directed by Burt Kennedy, Steve Carver
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Warren Oates, Pam Grier, Isela Vega, Yaphet Kotto, John Colicos, Fiona Lewis
Roles Rachel
Rating54% 2.7042852.7042852.7042852.7042852.704285
This film picks up the story 15 years after the events of the first film. Drum (Norton) has been born to a white prostitute (Vega), who raises him with her black lesbian lover (Kelly). Drum grows up to be a fighter and is often forced to bare-knuckle-box other slaves for the entertainment of the owners, one of whom is a gay Frenchman named Bernard DeMarigny (Colicos). DeMarigny wants to sleep with Drum, but his advances are rejected by the slave and DeMarigny vows revenge against Drum. Drum and his friend Blaise (Kotto) are eventually sold to plantation owner Hammond Maxwell (Oates) and are both taken to his plantation to work. Drum's girlfriend Regine (Grier) is purchased by Maxwell as well and is taken to the plantation for his own personal desires.
Three Tough Guys, 1h32
Directed by Duccio Tessari
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Buddy films
Actors Lino Ventura, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson, Paula Kelly, William Berger, Vittorio Sanipoli
Roles Fay
Rating55% 2.760642.760642.760642.760642.76064
L'inspecteur d'une société d'assurance est tué pendant qu'il enquête sur un client très important. Un prêtre et un ancien inspecteur de police décident de découvrir le coupable.
Uptown Saturday Night, 1h44
Directed by Sidney Poitier
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor
Roles Leggy Peggy
Rating65% 3.296433.296433.296433.296433.29643
Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier), a blue-collar worker at a steel mill, has just begun a two-weeks-long vacation. He is convinced by his friend Wardell Franklin (Bill Cosby) to go to a party that Saturday night at Madam Zenobia's, an uptown nightclub.
Soylent Green, 1h37
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction, Crime
Themes Environmental films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Mike Henry
Roles Martha Phillips
Rating69% 3.499873.499873.499873.499873.49987
The 20th century's industrialization has left the world permanently overcrowded, polluted and stagnant by the turn of the 21st century. In 2022, with 40 million people in New York City alone, housing is dilapidated and overcrowded; homeless people fill the streets; about half are unemployed, the few "lucky" ones with jobs are only barely scraping by themselves, and food and working technology is scarce. Most of the population survives on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation, whose newest product is Soylent Green, a green wafer advertised to contain "high-energy plankton" from the world's oceans, more nutritious and palatable than its predecessors "Red" and "Yellow", but in short supply.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door, 1h42
Directed by Ivan Dixon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Lawrence Cook, Paula Kelly, J. A. Preston
Roles Dahomey Queen
Rating70% 3.541073.541073.541073.541073.54107
The story takes place in the early 1970s in Chicago. The CIA has been required for political reasons to recruit African Americans for training. Only one of them, Dan Freeman (Lawrence Cook), secretly a black nationalist, successfully completes the training process. He becomes the first black man in the agency and is given a desk job—Top Secret Reproduction Center Sections Chief (which means he's in charge of the copy machine). Freeman understands that he is the token black person in the CIA, and that the CIA defines his function as providing proof of the agency's supposed commitment to integration and progress. Therefore, after completing his training in guerrilla warfare techniques, weaponry, communications and subversion, Freeman puts in just enough time to avoid raising any suspicions about his motives before he resigns from the CIA and returns to work in the social services in Chicago.
Trouble Man, 1h39
Directed by Ivan Dixon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield, Paula Kelly, Ralph Waite, Bill Henderson, Gordon Jump
Roles Cleo
Rating66% 3.343653.343653.343653.343653.34365
Dans ce drame urbain, un homme de la ville cherche à fuir à la fois les flics et des escrocs dans ce drame urbain. T (Robert Hooks) est la combinaison d'un requin de piscine, d'un détective privé et d'un homme à tout faire du ghetto, menant ses affaires depuis un club de billard dans le centre-sud de Los Angeles.
Cool Breeze, 1h41
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Thalmus Rasulala, James Watkins, Julian Christopher, Judy Pace, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Raymond St. Jacques
Roles Martha Harris
Rating54% 2.7107052.7107052.7107052.7107052.710705
Sidney Lord Jones is a convicted felon who is granted an early release by the parole board in San Quentin. While imprisoned, he learns about the underworld diamond trade from reading and studying trade magazines. It motivates him to plan a heist to steal $3 million worth of diamonds from the largest diamond brokerage on the Pacific Coast.