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NANCY DREW AT THE MOVIES & ON TV FACT SHEET There were 4 Nancy Drew movies in the 1930s: Nancy Drew…Detective, 1938 Nancy Drew, Reporter, 1939 Nancy Drew, Troubleshooter, 1939 Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, 1939 The 1930s mo vies starred Bonita Granville as Nancy Drew and Frankie Thomas as “Ted” Nickerson (instead of “Ned” Nickerson.) There was a kissing scene between Bonita and Frankie in Troubleshooter that was cut out of the film. A popular expression in the 1930s movies was “I’ll bet you 23.80… .” This expression was slang from that time period and referred to the weekly paycheck amount given to workers in the WPA. Two of the 1930s movies were based upon Nancy Drew books: Nancy Drew…Detective was based on The Password to Larkspur Lane Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase was based on The Hidden Staircase Two actresses played Nancy Drew in the 1970s television series—Pamela Sue Martin and Janet Louise Johnson. In the 1970s TV series, Nancy Drew drove a blue Mustang, but it wasn’t a convertible. The 1977 Nancy Drew episode, The Secret of the Whispering Walls, was based upon two Nancy Drew books: The Hidden Staircase and The Secret of Red Gate Farm. Several Nancy Drew 70s TV show collectibles came onto the market: Nancy Drew T-shirt, Nancy Drew lunchbox, Nancy Drew Halloween costume, Nancy Drew greeting card set, and Nancy Drew puzzle and activity books. The 1990s saw Nancy Drew in a very short lived TV series—1 season—and she was played by actress Tracy Ryan. A TV pilot in 2002 starred Maggie Lawson as Nancy Drew—and in this movie, Nancy Drew got arrested for breaking and entering! Nancy Drew went off to college in the 2002 movie pilot. (Compiled by Nancy Drew Consultant, Jennifer Fisher, www.nancydrewsleuth.com) .

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KEENE, Carolyn
KEENE, Carolyn Harriet Stratemeyer Adams Geboren: 1892. Overleden: 1982 Zoals veel juniorenmysteries, is de Nancy Drew-serie bedacht en werd (althans in het begin) de plot geschetst door Edward Stratemeyer [> Franklin W. Dixon] van het Stratemeyer Concern. Zijn dochter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams nam later de uitgeverij over en claimde lange tijd de schrijver te zijn van àlle Nancy Drew-verhalen vanaf 1930 tot 1982. Onderzoek bracht aan het licht dat dit niet het geval was. De Nancy-verhalen werden, evenals andere Stratemeyer-series, geschreven door een aantal voorheen anonieme professionele schrijvers, waarvan de belangrijkste Mildred A. Wirt Benson (zie onder) was tot het moment dat Harriet Adams in 1953 (vanaf nummer 30) inderdaad begon met het schrijven van nieuwe delen en ook de oude delen vanaf 1959 reviseerde. Opmerkelijk en uniek is de zorgvuldigheid waarmee geprobeerd werd alle sporen omtrent de ‘echte’ auteurs uit te wissen. Byzantijnse plotten en samenzweringen werden gesmeed om veranderde copyrights; dossiers van The Library of Congress verdwenen en niet bestaande overheidsambtenaren werden opgevoerd om de namen van de ware schrijvers uit de boeken te laten verdwijnen. (foto: Internet Book List) website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Keene en http://www.keeline.com/Ghostwriters.html Nederlandse website: http://ccw.110mb.com/beeldverhalen/publicaties/N/nancydrew/index.htm Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson Geboren: Ladora, Iowa, USA, 10 juli 1905. Overleden: Toledo, Ohio, 28 mei 2002 Mildred Benson schreef de eerste 25 Nancy Drew-titels en nr 30 (uitgezonderd de nrs 8, 9 en 10) en schreef daarnaast nog vele andere juniorentitels, voornamelijk avonturen voor meisjes: Ruth Fielding (o.ps.
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