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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 .
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- Charlie Chaplin
- October 23, 1952 (United States)
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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Charlie Chaplin plays an old clown who saves a young ballet dancer in this bittersweet comedy. The film features his final slapstick scene with Buster Keaton and his farewell to the stage.
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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Limelight is a 1952 film by Charlie Chaplin that depicts the twilight of a former vaudeville star and the romance of a ballerina in a London flat. The film features Buster Keaton in a cameo and a new 4K restoration with special features and interviews.
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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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In 1914 London, the formerly successful and presently decadent and alcoholic clown Calvero smells gas in the building where he lives and breaks into an apartment. He finds the suicidal Thereza 'Terry' Ambrose laying on her bed unconscious, and brings a doctor who saves her.
