A homebound woman accidentally kills herself with an overdose of sleeping tablets.

With no reason for her to commit suicide, her innocent nurse falls under suspicion.

However, with the help of a newly qualified lawyer, Nurse Graham is acquitted and free to work again – but is history about to repeat itself?

Cast

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Photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (8) featuring Margaret Lockwood as Anne Graham
Anne Graham aka Anne Lovell
Photograph of English actor, Barry K Barnes (1)
Stephen Farringdon
Picturegoer Series publicity postcard for The Stars Look Down (1940) featuring Welsh actor, Emlyn Williams, number 1423 (1)
Tracy
Photograph of British actor, Roger Livesey (1)
Bill Mather
Fanny by Gaslight (1944) publicity photograph of British actress Margaretta Scott (1)
Judith Bentley
Wyndham Goldie
Edward Bentley
British actor, Basil Radford, as Captain Paul Waggett in Whisky Galore! (1949)
Dr Tredgrove
Publicity photo featuring British actress Irene Handl
Gertrude Mary Blaker
Grimshaw (Mervyn Johns) wears a hat and bow tie in My Learned Friend (1943)
James Fetherwood
Betty Jardine
Elsie
British actress Kathleen Harrison wears a striped blouse
Cook
British actor Felix Aylmer wears a white dinner jacket and bow tie
Prosecuting Counsel
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Reviews

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Easy-going British mystery of the Agatha Christie school. (Halliwell’s)

Film clips

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Main title from The Girl in the News (1940)

The Girl in the News (1940) opening credits

Date published

Main title from The Girl in the News (1940).

Pictures

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Photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (8) featuring Margaret Lockwood as Anne Graham
Roger Livesey (as Bill Mather), Margaret Lockwood (as Nurse Anne Graham) and Barry K Barnes (as Stephen Faringdon) in a photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (16)
Margaret Lockwood (as Nurse Anne Graham) in a photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (15)
Poster for The Girl in the News (1940) (3)
Lobby card from The Girl in the News (1940) (5)
Lobby card from The Girl in the News (1940) (4)
Margaret Lockwood (as Nurse Anne Graham) and Barry K Barnes (as Stephen Faringdon) in a photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (14)
Lobby card from The Girl in the News (1940) (3)
Margaret Lockwood (as Nurse Anne Graham) and Emlyn Williams (as Tracy) in a photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (13)
Photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (12)
Margaret Lockwood (as Nurse Anne Graham) and Irene Handl (as Miss Baker) in a photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (11)
Main title from The Girl in the News (1940)
Photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (10)
Barry K Barnes (as Stephen Faringdon), Margaret Lockwood (as Nurse Anne Graham) and Roger Livesey (as Bill Mather) in a photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (9)
Spanish poster for The Girl in the News (1940) (2)
Photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (7)
Spanish poster for The Girl in the News (1940) (1)
Photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (6)
Poster for The Girl in the News (1940) (2)
Lobby card from The Girl in the News (1940) (2)
Lobby card from The Girl in the News (1940) (1)
Photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (5)
Photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (4)
Photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (3)
Photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (2)
Poster for The Girl in the News (1940) (1)
Margaret Lockwood (as Nurse Anne Graham) in a photograph from The Girl in the News (1940) (1)

Production

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British director Carol Reed, perhaps best known for his work on The Third Man (1949)
Director
Edward Black
Producer
Roy Vickers
Writer (from the novel by)
Sidney Gilliat
Writer (screenplay)

Companies

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Twentieth Century-Fox Productions
Production company
Twentieth Century Fox Film Company
Distribution company