![]() ![]() Miss Pettigrew also discovers Delysia is romantically involved with three men: club owner Nick ( Mark Strong), her employer and owner of the flat she lives in 19-year-old Philip ( Tom Payne), who is producing a West End play Delysia wants the lead role in and poor pianist Michael ( Lee Pace), Delysia's accompanist and friend, who has just been released from prison and wants to marry her. Her placement agency refuses to give her more work, and in desperation she steals the address of a lady who has asked the agency to "send someone over." She arrives at the flat, but soon realizes the young woman, club singer and aspiring actress Delysia Lafosse ( Amy Adams), doesn't want a nanny- she wants a social secretary. After she is kicked out of a household for the fourth time, she is left on the streets. ![]() Miss Guinevere Pettigrew ( Frances McDormand) is a middle-aged, old-fashioned governess with a penchant for getting fired. It is set in London, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, and follows a spectacular day in the life of an English nanny. ![]() A 2008 film based on a 1938 book by Winifred Watson and starring Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, Mark Strong and CiarĂ¡n Hinds. ![]()
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