Nancy Drew... Reporter
movie
What Chance Has a Story With This 16-Year-Old Newshawk On Its Trail?
Released February 18, 1939
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
as
Nancy Drew
John Litel
as
Carson Drew
Frankie Thomas
as
Ted Nickerson
Dickie Jones
as
Killer Parkins
Mary Lee
as
Mary Nickerson
Larry Williams
as
Miles Lambert
Betty Amann
as
Eula Denning
Thomas E. Jackson
as
City Editor Bostwick
Olin Howland
as
Police Sergeant Entwhistle
Sheila Bromley
as
Bonnie Lucas
Hooper Atchley
as
The Chemist (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
as
Tracy (uncredited)
Crew
William Clemens
as
Director
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Stanley Fleischer
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Art Direction
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Milo Anderson
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Costume Design
Arthur Edeson
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Director of Photography
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Frank DeWar
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Editor
Heinz Roemheld
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Original Music Composer
Mildred Wirt Benson
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Story
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Dolph Thomas
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Sound
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Bryan Foy
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Associate Producer
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Kenneth Gamet
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Screenplay
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Russell Saunders
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Assistant Director
Jack L. Warner
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Executive Producer