Personal Column (film)
- 5 December 1939 (1939-12-05)
Personal Column (French: Pièges) is a 1939 French thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa and Erich von Stroheim. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch. Lured, an American re-make, directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Lucille Ball, was released in 1947.
Plot
After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man whom she met through a personal column ad, Adrienne Charpentier is recruited by the police to answer a series of similar adverts to try to track down the killer. She meets and falls in love with the charming nightclub owner and womanizer Robert Fleury, but clues begin to appear that suggest that it is he who is the murderer.
Partial cast
- Maurice Chevalier as Robert Fleury
- Marie Déa as Adrienne Charpentier, la journaliste/the newspaper woman
- Pierre Renoir as Brémontier
- Erich von Stroheim as Pears, l'ex-couturier/the former fashion designer
- André Brunot as Ténier, l'inspecteur en chef/the chief inspector
- Jacques Varennes as Maxime
- Henri Bry as Oglou Vacapoulos
- Catherine Farel as Lucie Baral
- Madeleine Geoffroy as Valérie
- Milly Mathis as Rose
- Jean Témerson as Batol, un inspecteur/an inspector
- Mady Berry as Sidonie, la cuisinière/the cook
- Pierre Magnier as l'homme d'affaires/the businessman
- André Numès Fils as le spectateur barbu/the bearded bystander
- Raymond Rognoni as un inspecteur de police/a police inspector
- Pierre Labry as Le danseur
Bibliography
- Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. Robert Siodmak: A Biography. McFarland, 1998.
See also
- Sea of Love
- The Personals
External links
- Personal Column at IMDb
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1930–1939
- People on Sunday (1930)
- Farewell (1930)
- Inquest (1931)
- About an Inquest (1931, MLV)
- The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
- Storms of Passion (1932)
- Quick (1932)
- The Burning Secret (1933)
- The Weaker Sex (1933)
- The Crisis is Over (1934)
- La Vie parisienne (1936)
- Parisian Life (1936)
- The Great Refrain (1936)
- Compliments of Mister Flow (1936)
- White Cargo (1937)
- Mollenard (1938)
- The Corsican Brothers (1939)
- Personal Column (1939)
1941–1951
- West Point Widow (1941)
- Fly-by-Night (1942)
- The Night Before the Divorce (1942)
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
- Someone to Remember (1943)
- Son of Dracula (1943)
- Phantom Lady (1944)
- Cobra Woman (1944)
- Christmas Holiday (1944)
- The Suspect (1944)
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
- The Spiral Staircase (1946)
- The Killers (1946)
- The Dark Mirror (1946)
- Time Out of Mind (1947)
- Cry of the City (1948)
- Criss Cross (1949)
- The Great Sinner (1949)
- The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
- Deported (1950)
- The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
1952–1969
- The Crimson Pirate (1952)
- Flesh and the Woman (1954)
- Die Ratten (1955)
- My Father, the Actor (1956)
- The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
- Dorothea Angermann (1959)
- Magnificent Sinner (1959)
- The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
- My Schoolfriend (1960)
- The Nina B. Affair (1961)
- Escape from East Berlin (1962)
- The Shoot (1964)
- The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965)
- The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)
- Custer of the West (1967)
- Kampf um Rom (1968)
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