Personal Column (film)

Personal Column
Personal Column
Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Written by	Jacques Companéez ; Simon Gantillon ; Ernst Neubach
Produced by	André Paulvé ; Michel Safra
Starring	Maurice Chevalier ; Pierre Renoir ; Marie Déa ; Erich von Stroheim
Cinematography	Marcel Fradetal ; Michel Kelber ; Jacques Mercanton
Edited by	Yvonne Martin
Music by	Michel Michelet
Production; company	Spéva Films
Distributed by	DisCina
Release date	5 December 1939;
Running time	106 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

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.

External links

Personal Column at IMDb

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Europe 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)
Hollywood 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)
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