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War threatens London as Miss Pettigrew, a destitute governess, filches a clients card from her agency and presents herself at the door. A singer named Delysia Lafosse wants a social secretary as she seeks a West End role by sleeping with a feckless producer in the bed of Nick, a smarmy nightclub owner with whom she also dallies. She ignores Michael, her piano player, who loves her and has tickets for New York on the Queen Mary. Miss Pettigrews job is to make sure Delysia gets the part. Over 24 hours, Miss Pettigrew is also called upon to help an ambitious and unfaithful fashion editor patch things up with her older fiancé, a lingerie designer. Has Miss Pettigrew found her calling?
In London in the beginning of World War II, the middle-aged Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is unemployed and hunger after being fired by her alcoholic employer. The social assistant refuses to offer another employment to her but Miss Pettigrew grabs the address of the American actress and singer Delysia Lafosse on her desk and heads to Delysias fancy apartment. Soon she befriends and is hired by Delysia, a beautiful woman that manipulates her two lovers to live comfortably, sing in a nightclub and be cast for a play. Miss Pettigrew helps Delysia to resolve her affairs and learn that she has a true love, a poor piano player that has invited her to move to New York with him. Meanwhile Miss Pettigrew meets the lingerie designer Joe Blomfield, who seems to be attracted to her.
Frances McDormand
Miss Pettigrew
Amy Adams
Delysia
Ciarán Hinds
Joe
David Alexander
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Clare Clifford
Margery
Christina Cole
Charlotte Warren
Stephanie Cole
Miss Holt
Beatie Edney
Mrs. Brummegan
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Edythe
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Annabel Darlington
Sally Leonard
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Katy Murphy
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Lee Pace
Michael
Tom Payne
Phil
Tim Potter
Nightclub Patron
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Gerry
Mark Strong
Nick
Mo Zinal
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