Drew Are You?
by American Way Staff[dl] DVDs
With Nancy Drew's latest adventures
headed to DVD, discover how much you know about our greatest
teenage crime-scene investigator. By Bryan Reesman
Nancy Drew is a pretty ordinary teenager,
except that in her spare time she solves crimes. That means she's
been threatened, tied up, knocked unconscious, poisoned with gas,
pursued by a ferocious canine, and attacked by an erratic robot -
among other things. So it makes sense that Emma Roberts was cast as
the tremendously talented teenage sleuth in Nancy Drew, a
modern, big-screen adaptation that is now out on DVD. After all,
who's more "ordinary" than the look-alike niece of America's
sweetheart, Julia Roberts? To prepare you for the DVD's release, we
share six things you don't know about Nancy Drew.
1The new Nancy
Drew and the old Nancy Drew have plenty in common. Though
Nancy Drew has popped up on TV in recent years, the last time the
character headlined her own feature fi lm was in the 1930s. Back
then, an actress named Bonita Granville starred in a series of
Nancy Drew movies. Like Emma Roberts, whose dad is actor Eric
Roberts, Bonita Granville was the daughter of a fi lm actor -
Bernard "Bunny" Granville. And also like Emma Roberts, who made her
big-screen debut at age nine, Bonita Granville made her fi rst fi
lm at age nine. Both were in pretty good company. Roberts starred
with Johnny Depp in Blow, and Granville was in
Westward Passage with Laurence Olivier.
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