True story of New York playwright and TV writer Helene Hanff's correspondence over the years with a staid London used bookstore owner starting in the early '50's.
British wartime rationing continued into the 1950's. They had war debt to pay off and the country wasn't in good shape. Hanff orders a food package for them.
I've talked with British people online. Asked one of she'd ever eaten blood pudding which, it turns out, is a type of sausage. She never had but her father loved it. Another said that her father had been a "rocker" in the 1960s and would go out looking for "mods" to beat up. She told about the time they almost wrecked their Morris Minor.
So I've been through this, and I can tell you that the way you communicate in writing would, for many of us, be a little embarrassing read it in voice-over. Things you think are witty or amusing when typed can sound affected when spoken out loud. Look at You've Got Mail.
With Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench. Based on a play which was based on Hanff's book of the same title.
Search for Helene Hanff on IMDb. She wrote some 1950's Hallmark movies which you can find on YouTube. Also some episodes of Ellery Queen. They look like live TV shows. I found one of her episodes on the streaming channel Pub-D-Hub.
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| The real Helene Hanff, London, 1971. |
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