Miss Pettigrew lives for a day

in english Set in London just prior to World War II, the film is about a middleaged, straitlaced vicar s daughter and governess Guinevere Pettigrew, who has been fired from her fourth job. When employment agency head Miss Holt implies she won t help her, the destitute Miss Pettigrew leaves the office with an assignment intended for a colleague, unaware that flamboyant American singer, actress Delysia Lafosse (née Sarah Grubb) wants a social secretary rather than a nanny.