Movie · 1939
Nancy Drew... Reporter
“What chance has a story with this 16-year-old newshawk on its trail?”
Released 18 February 1939 68 min Comedy / Crime / Mystery More from 1939 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
Leo White
as Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
Frank Orth
as Captain Tweedy (uncredited)
Olin Howland
as Police Sergeant Entwhistle
Thomas E. Jackson
as City Editor Bostwick
William Gould
as The Judge (uncredited)
Hooper Atchley
as The Chemist (uncredited)
John Litel
as Carson Drew
George Lloyd
as Maxie, Gym Attendant (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
as Tracy (uncredited)
Betty Amann
as Eula Denning
Al Bain
as Gym Spectator (uncredited)
Sheila Bromley
as Bonnie Lucas
Edgar Edwards
as Drunk (uncredited)
Larry Williams
as Miles Lambert
Charles Smith
as Charles, Journalism Student (uncredited)
Frankie Thomas
as Ted Nickerson
Bonita Granville
as Nancy Drew
Mary Lee
as Mary Nickerson
Joan Leslie
as Mayme, Journalism Student (uncredited)
Dickie Jones
as Killer Parkins
Sam Bagley
as Trainer (uncredited)
Frankie Burke
as Beldenburg Hotel Bellboy (uncredited)
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The numbers
54years between the oldest and youngest billed
65Leo White — oldest on the call sheet
11Dickie Jones — youngest billed
35average age of the credited cast