I decided to check Netflix for Nancy Drew movies, found one from 1939 that was titled Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase starring Bonita Granville as Nancy. It bore little resemblance to the book it was titled after and Nancy was not at all like the....oh I'll just say that the story and the characters were not anything at all like the Nancy Drew Mysteries. The only thing I enjoyed (nostalgically) was seeing Frankie Thomas as Ted (not Ned) Nickerson as he was the actor who played the title role in my very first favorite TV show, Tom Corbet Space Cadet (1950-1955) which was based on Heinlein's YA novel, Space Cadet and was just as far off base concerning the book it was based on as was this so-called Nancy Drew movie. But I watched it faithfully anyway. By the way Heinlein disliked it so much that he had his name removed from the credits.
