Focus Features is in talks to make a feature of recently rediscovered British comic novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, with Frances McDormand in talks to star. David Magee will write the screenplay.
Written by Winifred Watson, the book was first published in 1938. The title character is a seasoned governess who gets a taste of a more glamorous, exciting life when sent to work in the home of nightclub performer Miss La Fosse and entrusted with sorting out the latter's highly unrespectable affairs.
McDormand would play the governess. Several high-profile actresses including Jennifer Aniston are circling the role of the amoral starlet, described in the book as having "had as many male admirers as Miss Pettigrew had had children to watch over in her long years as governess."
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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