Nancy Gets a Clue about America

Check out my other blog for more about Nancy and friends:

http://nancygetsaclue.blogspot.com

Cool Vintage Locket

at http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25975738

Only $9.99 with free shipping. Not bad for the true ND afficionado.

Vintage Nancy

Confessions of a Teen Sleuth

http://www.abebooks.com/docs/authors-corner/chelsea-cain.shtml

an excerpt:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9625844

also by Chelsea Cain (she writes funny memoir)

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/stories/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1185830714253830.xml&coll=7

Nancy Drew Movie Review

Just a note to report that the movie is much better and less hokie than I thought it would be. It is partly tongue in cheek, and has Nancy as a Martha Stewart like teen who wears retro inspired clothing that you will remember and recognize. Also, two obnoxious characters (Lettie Briggs and Ina Mason) from The Dana Girls have been renamed and imported into this movie to good effect. I recognized them, being the natural sleuth that I am, even though they had different names. Also, she has a Sleuth bag, kind of like James Bonds' suitcase in From Russia With Love,from which she extracts various tools as needed.

One of the bad guys has one blue eye and one brown eye. Ned Nickerson is very cute and Julia Roberts' neice Emma Roberts does a good job as miss perfect, Nancy Drew.

See it. Two Thumbs Up.

Codger Hebert


http://nancydrewmovie.warnerbros.com/

This Corinne Bailey Rae song is featured (Like a Star):

The Nancy Drew Suite

Pictures from the Nancy Drew Suite, the downstairs bedroom of my home, are on the side of this blog.

The Mystery Continues

Nancy Drew Movies

To Tuesday Night Writing Salon,

The date we were searching for is 1939 (when the movie we watched, Nancy Drew Reporter, came out), it was one of four in a series. The titles were Nancy Drew, Detective (1938, based on The Password to Larkspur Lane book), Nancy Drew, Reporter (1939), Nancy Drew, Troubleshooter (1939), and Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939).

See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031709/

Mildred Wirt Benson is credited and was the real Carolyn Keene, but I'm sure she didn't get a dime for that movie, and wrote not a word of it.

Here's a quote from the dialogue in another of the series, Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase:

Captain Tweedy: Smitty, go down to the Turnbull house and put yourself on guard. Find anybody around there, throw 'em out.
Smitty, a Policeman: Single-handed?
Captain Tweedy: Oh, use both hands, I don't care.

Nancy Drew Troubleshooter is reportedly "The crowning jewel of the timeless Nancy Drew series. Bravo, Frankie and Bonita!" 18 September 2003

Bonita Granville (who played Nancy Drew) made a plethora of B movies in the thirties and forties, then went on to TV.

this link gives lots more info about the Nancy Drew movie series

http://www.nancydrewsleuth.com/cmovie.html

at this link

http://www.nancydrewsleuth.com/ndrevealed.html

I found this essay:

75 Years of Mystery Unfolds, Part IV: Nancy Drew at the Movies















Meanwhile, Frankie Thomas (who played Ted Nicholson, thinly disguised Ned Nickerson) went on to play Space Hero Tom Corbett in the early Fifties

http://www.slick-net.com/space/corbett/index.phtml

after that he wrote mysteries for a while:

* Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (1979)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword (1980)
* Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes (1984)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Treasure Train (1985)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders (1986, 1996)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Bizarre Alibi (1989)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Panamanian Girls (2000)
* Sherlock Holmes Mystery Tales (2002)
* Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes (2002).

His parents were also actors and both lived to be 100. He only made it to age 85 and was buried in his space hero suit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Thomas

P, coming to you from the Nancy Drew Suite

Nancy Gets a Clue: NDGS Blog Debuts

Nancy Drew
Originally uploaded by NancyDrewGirlSleuth.

This is the debut of my Nancy Drew blog. I'll have to think of a purpose for it.