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Personal Column (film)

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Country
  
France

Director
  
Robert Siodmak

Language
  
French

Writer
  
Jacques Companeez
,
Simon Gantillon
,
Ernst Neubach

Release date
  
5 December 1939 (1939-12-05)

1904 how a french nobleman got a wife through the new york herald personal column


Personal Column (French: Pièges) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa and Erich von Stroheim. 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.

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Plot

After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who 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 : Robert Fleury
  • Marie Déa : Adrienne Charpentier, la journaliste/the newspaper woman
  • Pierre Renoir : Brémontier
  • Erich von Stroheim : Pears, l'ex-couturier/the former fashion designer
  • André Brunot : Ténier, l'inspecteur en chef/the chief inspector
  • Jacques Varennes : Maxime
  • Henri Bry : Oglou Vacapoulos
  • Catherine Farel : Lucie Baral
  • Madeleine Geoffroy : Valérie
  • Milly Mathis : Rose
  • Jean Témerson : Batol, un inspecteur/an inspector
  • Mady Berry : Sidonie, la cuisinière/the cook
  • Pierre Magnier : l'homme d'affaires/the businessman
  • André Numès Fils : le spectateur barbu/the bearded bystander
  • Raymond Rognoni : un inspecteur de police/a police inspector
  • References

    Personal Column (film) Wikipedia