To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.
Acting
Marie Déa juggling five identities with surgical precision.
Direction
Siodmak's bizarre tonal tightrope: musical numbers meet serial killer dread.
Costume
Erich von Stroheim's failed couturier draped in his own bitter ambition.
Director
Robert Siodmak
Maurice Chevalier
Robert Fleury
Marie Déa
Adrienne Charpentier / Mademoiselle Blanche / Gabrielle Deny / Adrienne Du Pont / Raymonde Blanchard
André Brunot
Chef inspecteur de policeTenier
Jean Témerson
Inpecteur Batol
Erich von Stroheim
Pears, l'ex-couturier
Jacques Varennes
Maxime
Pierre Renoir
Brémontière
Mady Berry
La cuisinière Sidonie
Milly Mathis
Rose - l'autre cuisinière
Madeleine Geoffroy
Valérie
Pierre Magnier
L'homme d'affaires
André Numès
Le spectateur barbu
Jean Brochard
Le speaker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Siodmak's French exile before Hollywood; critics call it his 'laboratory' for later noirs like The Killers.
Marie Déa later married the film's screenwriter, Henri Jeanson — allegedly cast after he saw her in a café and declared her 'five women in one face.'
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