Personal Life
His career momentum was briefly halted with a two-year (1927–1929) forced hiatus when he served 25 months for manslaughter in California's San Quentin prison for the death of actor Ray Raymond, a few days after their fistfight.
Kelly later played the part of San Quentin Warden Clinton Duffy in the film Duffy of San Quentin.
Raymond's widow, Dorothy Mackaye, later married Kelly. She was briefly imprisoned for being an accomplice in the killing; and, wrote about her experiences, titled, "Women in Prison," that became a 1933 film, Ladies They Talk About, with Barbara Stanwyck.
He married a bit player, he met on the set of Flight Command (1940), Claire Owen (née Zona Mardelle Zwicker), on January 1941. She retired from acting, and went on to survive him.
He died of a heart attack in November 1956, aged 57, after voting for Adlai Stevenson.
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