Nancy Drew... Reporter

Feb 18, 1939

1h 8m

★ 6.0

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.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Nancy Drew

Bonita Granville

Carson Drew

John Litel

Ted Nickerson

Frankie Thomas

Killer Parkins

Dickie Jones

Mary Nickerson

Mary Lee

Miles Lambert

Larry Williams

Eula Denning

Betty Amann

City Editor Bostwick

Thomas E. Jackson

Police Sergeant Entwhistle

Olin Howland

Bonnie Lucas

Sheila Bromley

The Chemist (uncredited)

Hooper Atchley

Tracy (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

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