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.
March 7, 1946 in Santa Monica, California, USA
6 November 1918, Toledo, Ohio, USA
15 January 1896, York, Australia
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
25 August 1907, Michigan, USA
May 16, 1883 in Hertfordshire, England, UK
27 June 1909, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
2 July 1893, San Francisco, California, USA
15 February 1931, Finchley, London, England, UK
October 21, 1895 in Paris, France
2 June 1899, New Mexico, USA
26 July 1901, New York City, New York, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
8 November 1914, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
9 November 1889, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
31 August 1892, Brixton, London, England, UK
23 February 1887, London, England, UK
22 May 1924, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 October 1907, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
8 February 1919, Superior, Nebraska, USA
January 16, 1922 in New York, New York, USA
October 1, 1885 in Illinois, USA
11 March 1908, Italy
21 December 1917, Moscow, Russia
November 28, 1901 in Alabama, USA
28 March 1949, Santa Monica, California, USA
July 31, 1892 in Sydney, Australia
20 March 1884, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
12 October 1898, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
9 September 1903, Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
May 21, 2015
Some have also accused Limelight of being too sentimental, but we'd argue that's part of its charm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 09, 2006
Few cinema artists have delved into their own lives and emotions with such ruthlessness and with such moving results.
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.
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.
