"Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" is a winning twist on boy-meets-girl. It is also rather obviously targeted at single, conservative, middle-aged women. As a young, temperamentally theatrical liberal ...

It's TV meets 'tweens this week in DVDville, with the release of a batch of shows and a Jonas Brothers Miley Cyrus face-off. But look closer, and a few lower-profile highlights emerge. Ladies' day: ...

A day in the life of hapless British nanny Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is no easy task. Her frizzy brown hair and frayed threads cost her job after job, but in the exceptionally light ...

The Depression-era Cinderella comedy, "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day," is sporadically enjoyable and always gorgeous to behold -- it's a feast of Art Deco -- but it isn't quite worth a trip to the ...

For an obscure tale of a virginal London governess who discovers her true calling running interference for a giddy nightclub singer, the 1938 English novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day has enjoyed a ...

I think it is fair to say that “Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day” is a film that grows on you. Featuring Frances McDormand as the title character, it is, in a classic sense, both a comedy of manners and ...

For an obscure tale of a virginal London governess who discovers her true calling running interference for a giddy night-club singer, the 1938 English novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day has enjoyed ...

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This was shot at the legendary Ealing Studios, but I hesitate to call it a British comedy: its two stars are American, it opened in the U.S. five months before it opened in the UK, and its innocuous ...