Each of the books featured a popular film actress' name in the title and her image on the dust jacket.
[1] Stars featured in the series included Deanna Durbin, Bonita Granville, Judy Garland, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, and Ann Sheridan.
Critics have remarked on the similarity in tone and story structure between the Whitman Authorized Editions and the Nancy Drew series.
[2] Whitman continued to publish books based upon licensed properties - film and TV productions, for the most part - into the 1970s.
For example, Ginger Rogers plays a telephone switchboard operator who is moved to assist in the war effort after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.