Nancy Drew... Reporter

Release date: 02/18/1939

Genres:

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Countries:

United States of America

Rating:

6.2

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 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.

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Actors

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)

Al Bain

Gym Spectator (uncredited)

Nat Carr

Dr. Carey (uncredited)

Glen Cavender

Newspaper Office Worker / Beldenburg Hotel Passerby (uncredited)

Steve Clark

Pedestrian (uncredited)

Jimmy Conlin

Newspaper Morgue-Keeper (uncredited)

John Dilson

Deputy Coroner (uncredited)

Edgar Edwards

Drunk (uncredited)

Willie Fung

Mandarin Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)

Chester Gan

Mandarin Cafe Headwaiter (uncredited)

Dick Gordon

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

William Gould

The Judge (uncredited)

Kit Guard

Man at Gym Counter (uncredited)

George Guhl

Policeman at Lambert Estate (uncredited)

Florence Halop

Phyllis Gimble, Journalism Student (uncredited)

Charles Halton

Newspaper Publicity Man (uncredited)

Jack Kenney

Gym Spectator with Cigar (uncredited)

Joan Leslie

Mayme, Journalism Student (uncredited)

George Lloyd

Maxie, Gym Attendant (uncredited)

Frank Mayo

Man Leaving Courthouse (uncredited)

Jack Mower

Deputy Coroner (uncredited)

Leonard Mudie

Deputy District Attorney Garrett (uncredited)

George Offerman, Jr.

Tribune Office Boy (uncredited)

Frank Orth

Captain Tweedy (uncredited)

Paul Panzer

Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

Jack Perry

Soxie Anthens (uncredited)

Renie Riano

Effie Schneider (uncredited)

John J. Richardson

Joe, Taxi Driver (uncredited)

John Ridgely

Beldenburg Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Betty Roadman

First Prison Matron (uncredited)

Charles Smith

Charles, Journalism Student (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan

Gym Spectator (uncredited)

Elliott Sullivan

Pedestrian (uncredited)

Leo White

Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

Nancy Drew... Reporter

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