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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.
28 March 1949, Santa Monica, California, USA
9 September 1903, Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
2 June 1899, New Mexico, USA
28 June 1891, Leon, Iowa, USA
15 January 1887, Birmingham, England, UK
January 16, 1922 in New York, New York, USA
21 December 1917, Moscow, Russia
11 January 1877, Sydney, Australia
October 1, 1885 in Illinois, USA
4 February 1895, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
April 4, 1922 in Perris, California, USA
4 October 1895, Piqua, Kansas, USA
11 March 1908, Italy
9 November 1889, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2 July 1893, San Francisco, California, USA
31 January 1888, El Truinfo, Mexico
July 31, 1892 in Sydney, Australia
31 July 1944, Santa Monica, California, USA
3 January 1908, Concho, Arizona, USA
March 7, 1946 in Santa Monica, California, USA
12 March 1929, Nelson, Indiana, USA
26 January 1891, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
May 16, 1883 in Hertfordshire, England, UK
March 4, 1908 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
27 April 1893, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
August 19, 1899 in Birmingham, England, UK
2 January 1903, Pennsylvania, USA
16 April 1889, Walworth, London, England, UK
21 October 1895, Paradise, Nevada, USA
26 September 1916, San Bernardino, California, USA
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.
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.
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.
August 08, 2011
What comes through most clearly in Limelight, however, is that Chaplin had come to terms with his life.
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
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.
May 21, 2015
Some have also accused Limelight of being too sentimental, but we'd argue that's part of its charm.
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.
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.
January 01, 2000
Charles Chaplin's 1952 film is overlong, visually flat, episodically constructed, and a masterpiece.
