Monday, September 16, 2019

Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Crossroads

You know 84, Charing Crossroads, about brassy New York writer Helene Hanff and her exchange of letters to with an English bookstore in the early 1950s? She writes to them, orders books, and eventually sends them food packages---Britain was under wartime rationing until they paid off their massive war debt.

She was a television writer. In the movie, she mentions writing episodes of Ellery Queen. I searched for some of the episodes she wrote but couldn't find any. I wondered if her work had been lost to time.

IMDb shows that she wrote a number of made-for-TV movies for Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Poked around You Tube. Found this one:



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