![]() The film had been cast-Billie Burke, who played Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz, was to have been Miss Pettigrew" ( The Independent). ![]() 'They were horrified,' she recalled years later… I can remember to this day saying: 'You're wrong- Miss Pettigrew is a winner… It was an immediate success." The outbreak of WWII disrupted plans for a "proposed Hollywood film version. Watson's publishers at first rejected it. ![]() ![]() There are three lovers, cocaine and cocktails for breakfast… Miss Pettigrew, Watson's third novel, was completed in 1935. Over the next 24 hours, Miss Pettigrew helps the actress out of a series of sticky situations. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket.įirst American edition of Watson’s critically praised third novel, rediscovered and adapted to the screen in the 2008 film starring Francis McDormand and Amy Adams, in scarce dust jacket.īritish writer Winifred Watson rose to "literary prominence in 1938 with her novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and again over 60 years later, when the book was rediscovered… Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, the central character of Miss Pettigrew, is a middle-aged governess who is mistakenly sent by her agency to work for a dissolute actress and nightclub singer. ![]()
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