1. Limelight - Charlie Chaplin
Charles Chaplin made "Limelight" at the most troubled period of his adult career In the late 1940s, America's Cold War paranoia reached its peak... Thumb lime ...
Calvero, once a famous Music Hall star, now a washed-up old man, saves a neighbor from suicide. He nurtures the young ballerina with paralyzed legs back to health, and helps her regain her self-esteem, so that she may return to the stage. In this film Chaplin intimately and poignantly explores the twilight years of glory: what it means to be forgotten, to despair, and how to gather the strength to overcome. Chaplin also offers Buster Keaton a highly memorable appearance in their musical duet.
2. Limelight | Rotten Tomatoes
Director: Charlie Chaplin ; Producer: Charlie Chaplin ; Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin ; Distributor: United Artists ; Production Co: Celebrated Productions.
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. Calvero revives Terry's health and prospects, and in the process recovers his own self-esteem as well. When Terry proposes marriage, Calvero thinks their age difference is too great, and leaves to become a street clown so that Terry's friendship with a promising young composer (Sydney Chaplin) can instead blossom.
3. LIMELIGHT - American Cinematheque
DIRECTED BY · Charles Chaplin ; ABOUT THE FILM: Charlie Chaplin's masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director's ...
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4. Filming Limelight - Charlie Chaplin
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Charles Chaplin made "Limelight" at the most troubled period of his adult career In the late 1940s, America's Cold War paranoia reached its peak...
5. Limelight (1953) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
Cast & Crew ; Charles Chaplin. Director ; Charles Chaplin. Calvero ; Claire Bloom. Thereza [Ambrose] ; Nigel Bruce. Postant ; Buster Keaton. Calvero's partner ...
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6. Limelight - The Criterion Channel
Criterion Collection Edition #756 Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1952 • United States Starring Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce Charlie Chaplin's ...
Criterion Collection Edition #756 Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1952 • United States Starring Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce Charlie Chaplin’s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director’s most touching films. Chaplin plays Calvero, a ...
7. Limelight (1952) directed by Charlie Chaplin • Reviews, film + cast
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
8. Limelight movie review & film summary (1952) - Roger Ebert
He plays an old clown, Calvero, who was once hailed on the stages of the world as the greatest clown alive. But now Calvero has been forgotten, his art is ...
Although it was not quite his last film, there can be little doubt that “Limelight” was Charlie Chaplin’s farewell. It is also probably his most personal,
9. Limelight | Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom Buster Keaton, screenwriter ...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Vintage US program for the 1952 film. Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the ...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Vintage US program for the 1952 film. Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era, Limelight depicts the final years of a washed up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer, representative of a new generation of performers. The first and only time that Charlie Chaplin and fellow silent
10. So, About Buster And Charlie's “Limelight” Scene… - Silent-ology
Apr 11, 2019 · Tearing down Chaplin to somehow elevate Buster was, well, a Rohauer sort of thing to do. Quotes from Limelight art director Eugène Lourié and ...
Even casual classic comedy fans are familiar with the most famous scene from Charlie Chaplin’s bittersweet Limelight (1951), where he’s teamed with Buster Keaton onscreen for the first …
11. Limelight | Music Box Theatre
DIRECTED BY Charles Chaplin. WRITTEN BY Charles Chaplin. STARRING Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton. Charlie Chaplin's masterful drama ...
Charlie Chaplin’s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director’s most touching films. Chaplin plays Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina (Claire Bloom) who lives downstairs. An elegant mix of the comic and the tragic, this poignant movie also features Buster Keaton in an extended cameo, marking the only time the two silent comedy icons appeared in a film together. Made at a time when Chaplin was under attack by the American press and far right, Limelight was scarcely distributed in the United States upon its initial release, but it is now considered one of his essential and most personal works.
