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Limelight is a 1952 American comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, based on a novella by Chaplin titled Footlights. The score was composed by Chaplin and arranged by Ray Rasch .
Limelight: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton. A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Charles Chaplin
- 1952-10-31
Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama starring Charlie Chaplin as an old clown who helps a young ballet dancer. Roger Ebert praises Chaplin's performance, his optimism, and his final vaudeville act with Buster Keaton.
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 ...
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- Charlie Chaplin
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- Charlie Chaplin
A classic film by Charles Chaplin about a former vaudeville star and a ballerina who find hope and love in London. Featuring Buster Keaton in a rare cameo, Limelight is a poignant and personal work by the silent comedy legend.
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Limelight, British sentimental drama film, released in 1952, that was written, directed, and produced by Charlie Chaplin, who was inspired by his experiences as a child and young man performing in music halls. The once-famous clown Calvero (played by Chaplin) is sunk in alcoholic despair.
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Limelight, a deeply personal film Charlie Chaplin directed later in his career, tells the moving story of an ill and deeply unhappy ballerina who is nursed back to both mental and physical health by a comedian whose years of glory are long behind him.
