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

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