
- Country: UK
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Release: 1954-01-15
- Director: Anthony Pelissier
- Writers: Lesley Storm
- Language: English
- Stars: Gene Tierney , Leo Genn , Pamela Brown , Walter Fitzgerald
- Runtime: 82 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: 憧れの小徑 (Japan) , Afacere personală (Romania) , Ihre erste Enttäuschung (Austria) , Personal Affair (United Kingdom) , Un asunto personal (Mexico) , Questão Pessoal (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Ihre erste Enttäuschung , The Day's Mischief (United Kingdom) , Kohtalokkaita tunteita (Finland) , Tormento da Suspeita (Brazil) , La voce della calunnia (Italy) , Une affaire troublante (France, French Republic) , Persoonlijke zaak (Belgium) , Heimliche Begierde (Austria) , Prosopiki ypothesis (Greece) , De romantische leeftijd (Netherlands the) , Un asunto personal (Argentina) , Affaire personnelle (France, French Republic) , Möte i natten (Sweden) , Affaire personnelle (Belgium) , Gefahr für Barbara , Møte i natten (Norway) , Escándalo en Rudford (Spain) , Personal Affair (Canada) , Personal Affair , Unruhe um Barbara , Talebe aşkı (Turkey)
- Plot: Barbara Vining (Glynis Johns) is seventeen-years-old and living with her family in a 1950s English town. Her father, Henry (Walter Fitzgerald), is a newspaper journalist and mother, Vi (Megs Jenkins), a homemaker; her maiden aunt, Evelyn (Pamela Brown) also lives in their home. Barbara attends a co-educational school. And, for the first time in her life, Barbara is in love. The object of her affection is a sensitive and handsome gentleman, Stephen Barlow (Leo Genn), who teaches Latin to the graduating class at her school. Barlow is an Englishman, married to a beautiful, but very insecure and lonely American lady, Kay (Gene Tierney). Barbara disappears after a tutoring session at the Barlow home and is "in absentia" for three days. During that time, Stephen Barlow is asked to resign and nearly cautioned by the police, as rumors have run amok throughout the town. Many people, including his wife, are uncertain regarding what to think. Was it simply a case of unrequited love or did Stephen Barlow have a torrid affair with young Barbara? Is she dead by her own hand, is she murdered or has she simply disappeared? When three days elapse, Barbara appears and many questions are answered. But, in the tradition of British film, many more questions remain.
- IMDB:tt0046181
Personal Affair Cast · · · ALL
Anthony Pelissier
Director

Gene Tierney
Kay Barlow

Leo Genn
Stephen Barlow

Glynis Johns
Barbara Vining

Walter Fitzgerald
Henry Vining

Pamela Brown
Evelyn

Megs Jenkins
Vi Vining

Michael Hordern
Headmaster Griffith

Thora Hird
Mrs. Usher
Norah Gorsen
Phoebe (as Norah Gaussen)

Nanette Newman
Sally

Martin Boddey
Police Inspector Fred Garland (uncredited)
Michael Brennan
Police Officer (uncredited)
Peggy Ann Clifford
3rd Gossip (uncredited)

Shirley Eaton
Schoolgirl (uncredited)

Everley Gregg
Mrs. Welsh (uncredited)
Philo Hauser
Thin Man in Telephone Box (uncredited)

Noel Hood
4th Gossip (uncredited)

John Horsley
Parson (uncredited)

Avice Landone
1st Gossip (uncredited)

Michael Ripper
Reporter (uncredited)
Mela White
Cockney Girl (uncredited)