Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)

  • NR
  • 02/18/1939 (US)
  • Comedy, Crime, Mystery
  • 1h 8m

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

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.

William Clemens

Director

Mildred Wirt Benson

Story

Kenneth Gamet

Screenplay

Edward Stratemeyer

Novel

Cast

Bonita Granville's headshot

Bonita Granville

Nancy Drew
John Litel's headshot

John Litel

Carson Drew
Frankie Thomas's headshot

Frankie Thomas

Ted Nickerson
Dickie Jones's headshot

Dickie Jones

Killer Parkins
Mary Lee's headshot

Mary Lee

Mary Nickerson
Larry Williams's headshot

Larry Williams

Miles Lambert
Betty Amann's headshot

Betty Amann

Eula Denning
Thomas E. Jackson's headshot

Thomas E. Jackson

City Editor Bostwick

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