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.
31 August 1892, Brixton, London, England, UK
4 October 1899, London, England, UK
April 4, 1922 in Perris, California, USA
22 May 1924, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 5, 1925 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 July 1944, Santa Monica, California, USA
11 January 1877, Sydney, Australia
3 January 1908, Concho, Arizona, USA
2 June 1899, New Mexico, USA
15 May 1883, Northfleet, Kent, England, UK
25 April 1921, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
26 September 1916, San Bernardino, California, USA
21 October 1895, Paradise, Nevada, USA
15 January 1887, Birmingham, England, UK
28 March 1949, Santa Monica, California, USA
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
31 January 1888, El Truinfo, Mexico
23 February 1887, London, England, UK
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
8 February 1919, Superior, Nebraska, USA
August 19, 1899 in Birmingham, England, UK
March 4, 1908 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
25 August 1907, Michigan, USA
November 11, 1915 in El Paso, Texas, USA
May 16, 1883 in Hertfordshire, England, UK
4 October 1895, Piqua, Kansas, USA
November 28, 1901 in Alabama, USA
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 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 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.
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
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.
May 21, 2015
Some have also accused Limelight of being too sentimental, but we'd argue that's part of its charm.
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.
January 01, 2000
Charles Chaplin's 1952 film is overlong, visually flat, episodically constructed, and a masterpiece.
August 08, 2011
What comes through most clearly in Limelight, however, is that Chaplin had come to terms with his life.
