Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
"What chance has a story with this 16-year-old newshawk on its trail?"
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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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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 Entw...
Sheila Bromley
Bonnie Lucas
Hooper Atchley
The Chemist (uncredi...
Irving Bacon
Tracy (uncredited)
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Sam Bagley
Trainer (uncredited)
Al Bain
Gym Spectator (uncre...
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Frankie Burke
Beldenburg Hotel Bel...