Limelight: The Chaplin Collection (1952)

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Chaplin's final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian's effort to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of the film is the classic duet with Chaplin's only real artistic film comedy rival, Buster Keaton.

IMDB Rating: 8.1/10

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The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I (and the year Chaplin made his first film). Calvero (Charles Chaplin), once a famous stage clown but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza Ambrose, alias Terry (Claire Bloom), from suicide. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her self-esteem and resume her dancing career. In doing so he regains his own self-confidence, but his attempts to make a comeback are less successful.

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Terry says she wants to marry Calvero despite their age difference, although she has befriended Neville, a young composer Calvero believes would be better suited to her. In order to give them a chance Calvero leaves home and becomes a street entertainer. Terry, now starring in her own show, eventually finds Calvero and persuades him to return to the stage for a benefit concert.

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Reunited with an old partner (Keaton), Calvero gives a triumphant comeback performance but immediately suffers a heart attack and dies in the wings while just a few feet away from him Terry, the second act on the bill, dances on stage. This represents the end of a generation and the coming of another. The fading of age and the emergence of youth… under the Limelight, as said during the initial credits.

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Limelight is a conundrum for fans of Charles Spencer Chaplin. Premiering in 1952 when Chaplin was 63 years old, this melancholy reverie is a heartfelt expression of nostalgia for the Edwardian London music-halls of his youth, rich with deeply personal sentiment and warmly realized autobiographical fantasy. Watching the gray-haired genius play the has-been old stage clown, Calvero, is a fascinating exercise for Chaplin enthusiasts.

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Long gone is the silent Little Tramp of the classic shorts made over thirty years before, and of the great features such as The Gold Rush and Modern Times. And like Chaplin, Calvero is a storied yet faded comedian whose glory years are in the past and who desires to be embraced again by the mass audience that he has lost.

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Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, co-starring Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton. In dance scenes, Bloom is doubled by Melissa Hayden. The film score is composed by Chaplin and arranged by Ray Rasch.

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The film was released amidst public controversy, and passed over by many theaters, as at this time Chaplin was refused re-entry to the United States on alleged grounds that he was a communist sympathizer. It was re-released in the United States in 1972, however, and honored at the Academy Awards.

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Disc Two: Special features

Introduction (5:42) — Chaplin biographer David Robinson dips us into a little of Limelight's background — its autobiographical connections and Chaplin's original treatment of the story as an unpublished novel — and its context within the most difficult time of Chaplin's career.

Chaplin Today - Limelight (26:35) — Bernardo Bertolucci gets the spotlight to discuss "the sublime exorcism that is Limelight." Through a translator, the revered director says, "Watching the end of Limelight, I feel like crying, and that doesn't happen often to me." Also here is a summary of Chaplin's Hollywood career from the Keystone days to the years when he was "studied" by the FBI — we see pages from Chaplin's FBI file ripped up and tossed away — while the American Legion published letters against him. It's all supported by generous newsreel footage of the New York and London premieres as well as Chaplin's warm reception back in Europe, which included shaking hands with Winston Churchill. Plus we get new interviews with Chaplin's son Sydney and Claire Bloom. Finally, the cameras turn to Bologna, Italy in 2002, when Bloom introduced a 50th anniversary screening of this DVD's restored print of Limelight for an audience of 4,000 in the city's Piazza Grande.

Deleted scene (4:29) — Chaplin trimmed this scene out of the movie months after Limelight's theatrical run had begun. It depicts Calvero, destitute yet dignified, encountering an armless former colleague.

Original score (58:09) — Here's an audio selection that lets you play the entire musical score, including Calvero's stage acts (all DD 2.0 monaural). It's divided into 36 numbered tracks that you can click to as if on a CD, each track illustrated by a still from the appropriate scene.

Footlights (2:24) — An old recording of Chaplin reading two short extracts from his unpublished purple-prose novel, Footlights, that was a full working-through of the story that became Limelight. Illustrated by stills.

The Professor (1919) (6:24) — This is footage from an unfinished short comedy in which Chaplin played "Professor Bosco," the paunchy old proprietor of a flea circus. Thirty-three years later he found a home for the gag in Limelight. The footage is well restored and silent.

Home movies — Two selections of color, silent footage. "USA 1950" (9:51) features Oona O'Neill and their children Geraldine, Michael, and Josephine playing dress-up in the yard, showing off their dolls and pets, and other shots of domesticity. Then in "London 1959" (6:22), Chaplin returns to the streets and buildings of his childhood. Unfortunately the footage isn't annotated in any way, so it's more frustrating than revealing.

Trailers (4:25) — Two Limelight trailers, one in American-accented English, the other in Italian.

Photo gallery (4:25) — This collection of over 250 production and behind-the-scenes stills and production materials is divided into eight click-to video compilations. Irritatingly, once a compilation begins you can't (at least I can't) rewind it to see again a photo that has passed. In a few cases, the parade of stills is (also irritatingly) interrupted by snippets with audio from the movie:

Limelight (2:00)
Deleted scenes (:36)
Shooting (1:52)
Sets and production sketches (6:18)— Includes crossfades between sketches and the final realizations of elements such as the London street-scene opening.
Charles Chaplin (2:28)
The actors (4:20)
Limelight in the theaters (1:24)
Chaplin and Keaton by W. Eugene Smith (2:24)

Film posters — A click-through collection of 18 posters for Limelight from various countries and decades.

Scenes from films in The Chaplin Collection — Finally, this "coming attractions" ensemble presents scenes from ten titles slated for the series (The Chaplin Revue is absent):

The Kid (2:17)
A Woman of Paris (1:57)
The Gold Rush (1:46)
The Circus (2:12)
City Lights (2:39)
Modern Times (1:50)
The Great Dictator (2:32)
Monsieur Verdoux (2:46)
Limelight (2:33)
A King in New York (2:37)

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