Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)

6.0/10 68 min Comedy Crime Mystery

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

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)

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