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.
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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