Tag Archives: 1939

Movie Madness and/or Mania: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)

Posted on July 15, 2020 by

For the fourth and final entry in Warner Bros. 1938-39 series of Nancy Drew films, we finally get to a credited adaptation of an actual Nancy Drew book. Now, I have not read The Hidden Staircase, the second book in … Continue reading →

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Movie Madness and/or Mania: Nancy Drew…Trouble Shooter (1939)

Posted on July 6, 2020 by

Continuing this week with the third of four Nancy Drew movies produced by Warner Brothers in 1938-39, and I suspect we are getting farther and farther afield of the source material, and the emphasis continues to be on the wacky … Continue reading →

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Movie Madness and/or Mania: Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)

Posted on June 22, 2020 by

So, I decided that if I’m in for a penny, I’m in for a pound on Nancy Drew’s 90th Anniversary… no, not actually reading them, but watching the other three Warner Bros. films from the 1930s. The accent is definitely … Continue reading →

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Movie Madness and/or Mania: Back Door To Heaven (William K. Howard, 1939)

Posted on February 17, 2019 by

The 1950s might have been the golden age of Juvenile Delinquent movies, but the concept stretches back to the 1930s: Dead End and its subsequent spin-offs, and William Wellman’s Wild Boys of the Road dealt with teenagers on their own … Continue reading →

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Junior Miss By Sally Benson

Posted on July 29, 2018 by

Judy is every teen-age girl. She personifies the realities and the fantasies of the in-between years, the joys and heartaches of growing up. Background: I was unaware of the pedigree of this book when I went looking for something older (chronologically … Continue reading →

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