to throw your life away. When you reach my age
you want to cling onto it."
This is one of my favorite all time films.
Limelight by Charlie Chaplin.
It features Claire Bloome, as a despondent ballerina
who has suicidal tendencies due to physical maledy.
Charlie Chaplin plays
a Vaudeville Comedian in his Limelight
who has one more turn in the Bright Lights.
This is a film about going from your dreams
and has wonderful music composed by this remarkable
creative genius.
I recommend this as a holiday gift for someone you love
and who needs a boost to get up and dance their life.
For pure laughs, I am researching where to get some of
the early Chaplin films. I grew up with these at the Silent
Movie Theatre on Fairfax Avenue as a teen. They got
me through a very difficult time in my life.
your eg
leslie
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I revised my Getting Hip site today
and recommend these DVD's for anyone who
needs a laugh.
http://lesliegoldman.com/GETTING_HIP/id3.htm
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]Fun Facts from IMDb.com:
Go to: Awards, Nominations, Trivia, Goofs, Crazy Credits, Movie Connections, Alternate Versions, Quotes, Keywords
Awards
* Academy Awards, USA: Oscar for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
* BAFTA Awards: BAFTA Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer
* Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain: CEC Award for Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)
* Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists: Silver Ribbon for Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero)
Nominations
* BAFTA Awards: BAFTA Film Award for Best Film from any Source
Trivia
* Charles Chaplin, 'Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell won the Oscar for Best Original Score for this film, but it was the Oscar for films released in 1972. The picture had never played in a Los Angeles-area cinema during the intervening 20 years and was not eligible for Oscar consideration until it did.
* When some scenes were re-shot, Claire Bloom was unavailable, so Chaplin's wife, Oona Chaplin, stood in for her. She can be seen lying in the bed through the doorway after the housemaid has told Chaplin's character that his "wife" isn't eating.
* The first and only time silent greats 'Charles Chaplin (I)' and Buster Keaton appeared on screen together.
* Edna Purviance, Charles Chaplin's favorite co-star from the silent era, makes her final film appearance in a small role. Edna, who remained close to Chaplin throughout her life, rarely worked in films after the 1920s. Chaplin kept her on his payroll until she died.
* In once scene, Calvero (Charles Chaplin) quips, "It's the tramp in me", which is a nod to his Little Tramp character, which propelled him to fame and fortune in a series of silent films.
* The children in the first scene we see Calvero, the ones who tell him the landlady isn't home, are Charles Chaplin's own children.
* The Academy Award that Charles Chaplin won for composing this film's score is the only competitive Oscar he ever received; his other awards were given to him for special achievement outside of the established categories.
* For the first time since making a cameo in Show People, 'Charles Chaplin (I)' appears on film without a mustache.
* British music hall comedians Charlie Hall and Charley Rogers have small parts in the film.
Goofs
* When Calvero has returned to the flat after his failure to revive his career at the Middlesex Music Hall, Thereza is sitting in an armchair, which has a blanket draped over the back. For most of the scene, when you see her in close-up, the blanket is folded over the middle of the chair-back, and so part of the chair-back is visible. In the long shots, however, the blanket is unfolded and draped fully, covering the chair-back. Towards the end of the scene of Calvero and Thereza's conversation, this is fixed so that the blanket is always folded and draped over the middle.
Crazy Credits
* "The glamour of limelight, from which age must pass as youth enters."
Movie Connections
* Edited into: Chaplin Today: Limelight
* References: The Professor
* Referenced in: Zampo y yo | Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Unknown Chaplin | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Shakespeare's Women & Claire Bloom | Bad Company | Chaplin Today: A King in New York | Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux
* Featured in: The 44th Annual Academy Awards | Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow | Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Alternate Versions
* When the film was released in 1952, it ran 141 minutes. It had been in distribution for several months, when Chaplin recalled film prints and deleted a scene in which Calvero leaves the sleeping Thereza, and goes to a bar, where he meets his old friend, Claudius, the armless violin player, who gives Calvero money. The film ran 137 minutes after this scene was edited out. In the ending credits, there is still a billing for Stapleton Kent as Claudius, even though he is not seen in current versions of the film. The excellent Image/David Shepard DVD version is the 137 minute version, but it presents the deleted scene as an extra feature.
Quotes
* Calvero: There's something about working the streets I like. It's the tramp in me I suppose.
* Calvero: Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.
* Terry: I thought you hated the theater?
Calvero: I also hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.
* Calvero: That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.
* Terry: I'm sorry.
Calvero: You should be. A girl like you wanting to throw your life away. When you reach my age you want to cling onto it.
* Calvero: There's greatness in everyone.
* Calvero: Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it.
* Calvero: What a day! The sun's shining, the kettle's singing, *and* we've paid the rent. There's going to be an earthquake, I know it, I know it, I know it.
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This collection contains "One AM"
one of my favorite Chaplin Shorts.
It is one of those gut slipping laughers
about a high society man attempting to
get into his bedroom drunk against the odds
of stuffed animals on the attrack, and a pendalum
clock that keeps knocking him back down the stairs.
I saw this one was I was a kid
and loved it.