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What Chance Has a Story With This 16-Year-Old Newshawk On Its Trail?

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Nancy Drew... Reporter

1939 � 6/10

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.

Release Date
2/18/1939
Runtime
1 hour and 8 minutes
Director
William Clemens

Cast

Bonita Granville
Bonita Granville
Nancy Drew
John Litel
John Litel
Carson Drew
Frankie Thomas
Frankie Thomas
Ted Nickerson
Dickie Jones
Dickie Jones
Killer Parkins
Mary Lee
Mary Lee
Mary Nickerson
Larry Williams
Larry Williams
Miles Lambert
Betty Amann
Betty Amann
Eula Denning
Thomas E. Jackson
Thomas E. Jackson
City Editor Bostwick
Olin Howland
Olin Howland
Police Sergeant Entwhistle
Sheila Bromley
Sheila Bromley
Bonnie Lucas
Hooper Atchley
Hooper Atchley
The Chemist (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Irving Bacon
Tracy (uncredited)
Sam Bagley
Trainer (uncredited)
Al Bain
Al Bain
Gym Spectator (uncredited)
Frankie Burke
Beldenburg Hotel Bellboy (uncredited)
Nat Carr
Nat Carr
Dr. Carey (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
Glen Cavender
Newspaper Office Worker / Beldenburg Hotel Passerby (uncredited)
Loia Cheaney
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
Steve Clark
Steve Clark
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
Jimmy Conlin
Newspaper Morgue-Keeper (uncredited)

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