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Limelight
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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.
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.
Actors:
Judy Landon,
Edna Purviance,
Snub Pollard,
Benjie Bancroft,
Julian Ludwig,
Rudy Germane,
Charles Chaplin Jr.
Judy Landon
Edna Purviance
21 October 1895, Paradise, Nevada, USA
Snub Pollard
9 November 1889, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Benjie Bancroft
8 February 1919, Superior, Nebraska, USA
Julian Ludwig
22 May 1924, Los Angeles, California, USA
Rudy Germane
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
Charles Chaplin Jr.
May 5, 1925 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Country:
United States
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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.
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.
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.
New York Times
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.
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
What comes through most clearly in Limelight, however, is that Chaplin had come to terms with his life.
May 21, 2015
Some have also accused Limelight of being too sentimental, but we'd argue that's part of its charm.
February 09, 2006
Few cinema artists have delved into their own lives and emotions with such ruthlessness and with such moving results.
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.
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.
January 01, 2000
Charles Chaplin's 1952 film is overlong, visually flat, episodically constructed, and a masterpiece.