Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
What chance has a story with this 16-year-old newshawk on its trail?
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which high school students are asked to submit a news story, Nancy Drew intercepts a real story assignment concerning 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.
- Date of release
- 1939-02-18
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (33)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Director
- William Clemens
- Collection
- Nancy Drew Collection
Casting
- Bonita Granville — Nancy Drew
- John Litel — Carson Drew
- Frankie Thomas — Ted Nickerson
- Dickie Jones — Killer Parkins
- Mary Lee — Mary Nickerson
- Larry Williams — Miles Lambert
- Betty Amann — Eula Denning
- Thomas E. Jackson — City Editor Bostwick
- Olin Howland — Police Sergeant Entwhistle
- Sheila Bromley — Bonnie Lucas
- Hooper Atchley — The Chemist (uncredited)
- Irving Bacon — Tracy (uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Based on: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
Nancy Drew... Reporter is a 1939 American comedy-mystery film directed by William Clemens and written by Kenneth Gamet. The film stars Bonita Granville as Nancy Drew, John Litel, Frankie Thomas, Mary Lee, Dickie Jones and Larry Williams. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on February 18, 1939. It is a sequel to Nancy Drew... Detective (1938) and was followed by Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939).
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