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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.
May 16, 1883 in Hertfordshire, England, UK
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
15 May 1883, Northfleet, Kent, England, UK
6 August 1893, Rockford, Illinois, USA
October 1, 1885 in Illinois, USA
21 October 1895, Paradise, Nevada, USA
27 April 1893, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
8 November 1914, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
12 March 1929, Nelson, Indiana, USA
4 October 1895, Piqua, Kansas, USA
12 October 1898, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
January 01, 2000
Charles Chaplin's 1952 film is overlong, visually flat, episodically constructed, and a masterpiece.
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.
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.
May 21, 2015
Some have also accused Limelight of being too sentimental, but we'd argue that's part of its charm.
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
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.
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 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.
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
What comes through most clearly in Limelight, however, is that Chaplin had come to terms with his life.
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.