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The first installment was adapted (uncredited) from The Password to Larkspur Lane and came in at a brisk 65 minutes. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams sold the rights to Nancy Drew to Warner Brothers, which would have ongoing legal ramifications into the 21 st century, for an intended series of “B” movies helmed by William Clemens, who had directed entries in the Philo Vance, Torchy Blane and Dead End Kids film series.įormer child star Bonita Granville, an Oscar nominee at the age of 12 (for These Three) was cast as Nancy, and she was joined by Frankie Thomas as Ned (now called Ted) Nickerson. I jest, but I am not really in any position to judge the merits of the very first Nancy Drew adaptation any better. I have watched a few episodes of the late 1970s The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, in which Pamela Sue Martin played a bold and modern Nancy, who was rewarded by being booted from the series after a season and a half, probably because she made the Hardy Boys look like a couple of dum-dums.īut I really can’t say how well that series represents the content of the actual books- did the Stratemeyers have Joe Hardy halting his sleuthing to sing “ Da Do Ron Ron” to a crowd of adoring fans in the originals? So, confession on the occasion of Nancy Drew’s 90 th Anniversary: I have never actually read a Nancy Drew book.īack in the early years of this site I did read and review Grosset & Dunlop’s Nancy Drew Cookbook(mmm, Crooked Bannister Cornbread, anyone?) and Simon & Schuster’s late-1980s attempt to ride the Sweet Valley gravy train with River Heights, a non-mystery series set in in Nancy’s hometown.