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Limelight(Movie, 1952)

2h 17min | Genres: Drama, Music, Romance / Love
LimelightRating: 4.0/5 (with 212212 votes)
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. The film stars Chaplin as a washed-up comedian who saves a suicidal dancer, played by Claire Bloom, from killing herself, and both try to get through life. Additional roles are provided by Nigel Bruce, Sydney Earl Chaplin, Wheeler Dryden, and Norman Lloyd, with an appearance from Buster Keaton. In dance scenes, Bloom is doubled by Melissa Hayden. Upon the film's release, critics' reception was divided; it was heavily boycotted in the United States because of Chaplin's alleged communist sympathies, and failed commercially. However, the film was re-released in the United States in 1... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Limelight

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

About Limelight

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: London
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 23 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/23/1952
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Luzes da Ribalta"
"Parrasvalot"
"Les feux de la rampe"
Budget: 900,000 USD
Revenue: 1,000,000 USD (= 111%)
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: Limelight (GB, 1937), Limelight (US, 2011), Limelight (2017), Limelight (2020)

WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:5395, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024