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Vincent Canby for The New York Times gave 84 Charing Cross Road a less favourable review, citing it as "a movie guaranteed to put all teeth on edge . . . a movie of such unrelieved genteelness that it makes one long to head for Schrafft's for a double-gin martini, straight up, and a stack of cinnamon toast from which the crusts have been ...
84, Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff. It is an epistolary memoir composed of letters from the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel , chief buyer for Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London .
Cohen was persuaded to allow his name to be abbreviated in the company's name. A book of correspondence between Helene Hanff and Frank Doel, together with other members of the staff between 1949 and 1968, published by Hanff as 84 Charing Cross Road, was later made into a stage play, television play and BAFTA-winning film. Marks & Co closed in 1970.
Helene Hanff (April 15, 1916 – April 9, 1997) was an American writer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.She is best known as the author of the book 84, Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a stage play, [1] television play, and film of the same name.
MARKS & CO., 84, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2.". When Hanff belatedly heard of his death she wrote a short autobiographical book which became the classic 84, Charing Cross Road . [ 8 ] The book was subsequently turned into a stage play and, in 1975, a BBC TV Play for Today with Anne Jackson and Frank Finlay .
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Marks and his wife Elena feature prominently in Hanff's 1973 book The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, her memoir of her trip to England in 1971 in the wake of the success of 84, Charing Cross Road. [12] In 1998, Marks published his account of his work in SOE – Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945.
The Circus hosted Marks & Co, booksellers, who operated from 84 Charing Cross Road, which featured in Helene Hanff's 1970 book 84, Charing Cross Road, which has subsequently been adapted into a stage play, a television play, and a 1987 movie starting Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, and Judi Dench.