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Feb 15, 2021 · Claire Bloom talks about her rise to fame and reading her ex-husband Philip Roth’s work Published: 23 Dec 2016 Screen gods, guilt and glamour: actor Claire Bloom on her life in the limelight
Mar 22, 2021 · In 1976, Roth starting seeing the British actress Claire Bloom, who had been a star since she made her début, at twenty-one, in Charlie Chaplin’s “Limelight” (1952). At least for a while ...
May 29, 2018 · BLOOM, CLAIRE (1931– ), British actress. Claire Bloom won acclaim in The Lady's Not for Burning (1949) and as Juliet in the 1952 Old Vic production of Romeo and Juliet. Later plays include Duel of Angels (London, 1958) and Rashomon (Broadway, 1959). She gained screen fame as the ballerina in Charlie Chaplin 's Limelight (1951).
Described as exquisitely beautiful and radiant, Claire Bloom was already a star of the British stage when Charlie Chaplin introduced her delicate features to the world in "Limelight" (1952). Her sensitive performance as the ballet student Chaplin saves from a suicide attempt earned her the British Film Academy Award as Most Promising Newcomer ...
Claire Bloom is an English stage and screen actress who has appeared in over sixty films and television productions since 1947. She is best known for her roles in films such as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), A Doll's House (1973), and The King's Speech (2010).
Jan 15, 1984 · Claire Bloom has played an abandoned waif with Charles Chaplin in ''Limelight,'' a daintily crushed ingenue with Laurence Olivier in ''Richard III,'' an asp of a mother who ''kills with a touch ...
May 23, 2018 · In 1983, Vogue interviewed the late Philip Roth, who was living in a “pastoral idyll” in Connecticut with the British actress Claire Bloom—whom he would go on to marry for four tumultuous years.
