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Personal Column (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Personal Column' is a 1939 French thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Da 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 Wakhvitch. '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 Da as Adrienne Charpentier, la journaliste/the newspaper woman
* Pierre Renoir as Brmontier
* Erich von Stroheim as Pears, l'ex-couturier/the former fashion designer
* Andr Brunot as Tnier, l'inspecteur en chef/the chief inspector
* Jacques Varennes as Maxime
* Henri Bry as Oglou Vacapoulos
* Catherine Farel as Lucie Baral
* Madeleine Geoffroy as Valrie
* Milly Mathis as Rose
* Jean Tmerson as Batol, un inspecteur/an inspector
* Mady Berry as Sidonie, la cuisinire/the cook
* Pierre Magnier as l'homme d'affaires/the businessman
* Andr Nums 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'
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