Nancy Drew... Reporter(1939)

What Chance Has a Story With This 16-Year-Old Newshawk On Its Trail?

62

1h 8m

  • Comedy,
  • Crime,
  • Mystery

Overview

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

Cast

  • Bonita Granville

    Bonita Granville

    Nancy Drew

  • John Litel

    John Litel

    Carson Drew

  • Frankie Thomas

    Frankie Thomas

    Ted Nickerson

  • Dickie Jones

    Dickie Jones

    Killer Parkins

  • Mary Lee

    Mary Lee

    Mary Nickerson

  • Larry Williams

    Larry Williams

    Miles Lambert

  • Betty Amann

    Betty Amann

    Eula Denning

  • Thomas E. Jackson

    Thomas E. Jackson

    City Editor Bostwick

  • Olin Howland

    Olin Howland

    Police Sergeant Entwhistle

  • Sheila Bromley

    Sheila Bromley

    Bonnie Lucas

  • Hooper Atchley

    Hooper Atchley

    The Chemist (uncredited)

  • Irving Bacon

    Irving Bacon

    Tracy (uncredited)

  • Al Bain

    Al Bain

    Gym Spectator (uncredited)

  • Nat Carr

    Nat Carr

    Dr. Carey (uncredited)

  • Glen Cavender

    Glen Cavender

    Newspaper Office Worker / Beldenburg Hotel Passerby (uncredited)

  • Steve Clark

    Steve Clark

    Pedestrian (uncredited)

  • Jimmy Conlin

    Jimmy Conlin

    Newspaper Morgue-Keeper (uncredited)

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    Status

    Released (Feb 18, 1939)

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