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Limelight
Depressed over her failed dance career, Terry (Claire Bloom) attempts suicide, only to be rescued by Calvero (Charles Chaplin), an impoverished, once-famous stage clown. Together they must look to each other to find meaning and hope in their lives.
15 January 1896, York, Australia
15 May 1883, Northfleet, Kent, England, UK
April 4, 1922 in Perris, California, USA
4 October 1899, London, England, UK
21 December 1917, Moscow, Russia
11 April 1883, Cheetham, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
26 September 1916, San Bernardino, California, USA
20 March 1884, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
31 August 1892, Brixton, London, England, UK
October 1, 1885 in Illinois, USA
31 January 1888, El Truinfo, Mexico
12 March 1929, Nelson, Indiana, USA
15 January 1887, Birmingham, England, UK
4 October 1895, Piqua, Kansas, USA
9 November 1889, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
25 April 1921, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
22 May 1924, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 July 1901, New York City, New York, USA
November 11, 1915 in El Paso, Texas, USA
12 October 1898, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
4 December 1888, Dublin, Ireland
March 4, 1908 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
May 21, 2015
Some have also accused Limelight of being too sentimental, but we'd argue that's part of its charm.
March 09, 2011
Elements of self parody from the master of slapstick leave you yearning for the early work that made his name. But it's worth a watch to see Chaplin and Keaton in one of few on-screen appearances together.
April 11, 2017
With Limelight, for one last, brief moment, it's like old times even as the new age begins and Chaplin relinquishes his crown to the younger generations.
August 08, 2011
Chaplin, as usual, is the whole show, superb in this swansong statement about his own career and the old-style entertainment he best represented.
March 25, 2006
Neither comedy nor tragedy altogether, it is a brilliant weaving of comic and tragic strands, eloquent, tearful and beguiling with supreme virtuosity.
June 13, 2015
It was Chaplin's last great film, and it showcases not just a love for the performing arts (she's a ballerina, he's a vaudevillian), but also Chaplin's effortless sentimentality.
August 08, 2011
What comes through most clearly in Limelight, however, is that Chaplin had come to with his life.
February 09, 2006
Few cinema artists have delved into their own lives and emotions with such ruthlessness and with such moving results.
January 01, 2000
Charles Chaplin's 1952 film is overlong, visually flat, episodically constructed, and a masterpiece.
March 26, 2009
Departing from most forms of Hollywood stereotype, the film has a flavor all its own in the sincere quality of the story anent the onetime great vaudemime and his rescue of a femme ballet student.
August 08, 2011
Intended as a tragicomedy, if not a tearjerker, it is a two-thirds bore that comes to life in the last half-hour or so, when the old-master clown stops trying to be pathetic and reverts to his inimitable proper stuff.
