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84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

100 mins

type:

genre(s):

DRAMA

ROMANCE

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.

name

character

Jean De Baer

Maxine Stuart

Anne Bancroft

Helene Hanff

John Bardon

Labour Party Canvasser

Connie Booth

The Lady from Delaware

Rebecca Bradley

Sheila Doel, Aged 12

Kate Napier Brown

Mary Doel Aged 21

Danielle Burns

Cecily Farr's daughter

Lee Burns

Cecily Farr's son

Ronn Carroll

Businessman on Plane

Janet Dale

Joan Todd (Mrs) Secretary

David Davenport

Coronation Party Friend

Eleanor David

Cecily Farr

Judi Dench

Nora Doel

Maurice Denham

George Martin

Anne Dyson

Mrs. Boulton

James Eckhouse

Joey, the Dentist

Daniel Gerroll

Brian

Marty Glickman

Baseball Commentator

Max Harvey

Coronation Party Friend

Zoe Hodges

Mary Doel, Aged 4

Rupert Holliday-Evans

Coronation Party Friend

Anthony Hopkins

Frank P. Doel

Tom Isbell

Charles Lewsen

The Print Buyer

Betty Low

Maxine's Mom

name
Helene Hanff	writer (original)
Geoffrey Helman	producer
David Hugh Jones	director
Kathy Li	writer (original)
James Roose-Evans	screenplay
Hugh Whitemore	screenplay

award	category	name	year
BAFTA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Anne Bancroft	1987

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