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when it came time for the girl to go to college, Aunt Edna once again proved to be a reliable fairy godmother
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What Is a Theme Park Nanny? Think of a theme park nanny like a fairy godmother and a park aficionado all wrapped up into one.
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Carly Caramanna, Parents, 5 June 2024
My Little Puny sparkles in a double role as the prince and the fairy godmother, but Tabitha is a scene-stealing vamping diva as the evil stepmother.
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
Think of Nora Ephron as the fairy godmother of modern-day rom-coms.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
Her inability to fit in, in addition to meeting her fairy godmother, leads her to Harlem.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 26 Apr. 2024
In the course of one eventful year, with the help of a fairy godmother/movie star best friend, the journalist weathers public humiliation, finds true love and learns to accept herself, and her life, in all of its messy, imperfect glory.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024
Or even Donkey Skin, the Jacques Demy movie where the fairy godmother has a helicopter.
—Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
But nothing gives this adaptation — which otherwise might have easily been forgotten as a quirky '90s made-for-TV one-off — so much fairy dust as a glimmering Whitney Houston playing the best-ever fairy godmother.
—EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
And that’s when a fairy godmother in a headscarf appears.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
Carly Caramanna, Parents, 5 June 2024
My Little Puny sparkles in a double role as the prince and the fairy godmother, but Tabitha is a scene-stealing vamping diva as the evil stepmother.
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
Think of Nora Ephron as the fairy godmother of modern-day rom-coms.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
Her inability to fit in, in addition to meeting her fairy godmother, leads her to Harlem.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 26 Apr. 2024
In the course of one eventful year, with the help of a fairy godmother/movie star best friend, the journalist weathers public humiliation, finds true love and learns to accept herself, and her life, in all of its messy, imperfect glory.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024
Or even Donkey Skin, the Jacques Demy movie where the fairy godmother has a helicopter.
—Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
But nothing gives this adaptation — which otherwise might have easily been forgotten as a quirky '90s made-for-TV one-off — so much fairy dust as a glimmering Whitney Houston playing the best-ever fairy godmother.
—EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
And that’s when a fairy godmother in a headscarf appears.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
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“Fairy godmother.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fairy%20godmother. Accessed 18 Jun. 2024.
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