The script for "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" came to Adams while she was working on "Enchanted" and she immediately went to England to work on this brightly colored farce, set in pre-World War II London, in which she plays a flighty-but-ambitious actress named Delysia Lafosse, who befriends the dowdy ex-governess ( Frances McDormand) she's unwittingly taken on as a social secretary. "I'd met Frances when we'd been nominated together that same year for the same Oscar ... I always knew she was a fantastic actress. But working with her, I got so much out of her work ethic, generosity and her sense of play. She spends most of the movie, especially the first part, reacting to all this wild stuff Delysia does. But she's got such an ... active sense of reacting that I never felt I was doing everything in isolation. I learned so much from her." Delysia is the latest in what would seem to be a series of roles for Adams requiring her to project a sense of wonder so luminous that it almost explodes. Full Article at Newsday