![]() ![]() Add a star if you are an innocent young person you will learn some things. Members: Reviews: Popularity: Average rating: Mentions: 2,011: 146: 6,153 (4.09) 453: All member reviews. ![]() Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Dayis not quite life-affirming, and you wouldn't, thank heavens, call it inspirational. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (1938) by Winifred Watson. But the chemistry between McDormand and Adams - the former slowly ceasing to be a squashed cabbage leaf, the latter fired with the energy of a great screwball heroine - causes happy sparks to dance about the production. In this 1938 book, the proper Miss Pettigrew, a 40 year old faded and timid governess whos fallen into desperate poverty, is sent to a new job. McDormand's English accent wanders a bit and Shirley Henderson's evil socialite really belongs in a bad pantomime. Indeed, so much of the film takes place in Delysia's apartment that one begins to think oneself watching a stage play. Nalluri, previously a director of British television, has delivered a very set-bound entertainment. Delyssia treats Miss Petigrew to a makeover and Miss Petigrew treats Delyssia to a few bracing truths. ![]() ![]() While the musical star juggles men and tries to sleep her way into a West End lead, her new factotum devises half-truths to keep one suitor away from the next. The film begins with Miss Pettigrew (McDormand), depressed, poor and bad at her job, wangling a post as the social secretary for the noisy, flirtatious, but essentially good-hearted Delysia Lafosse (Adams). ![]()
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