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Limelight

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Limelight

Black and white film made in 1952, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin plays a has-been clown who rejuvenates himself by coming to the rescue of a young ballerina (Claire Bloom). Set in the turn-of-the-century music hall of the director's youth, it is his most personal film and autobiographical in content.

The film risks the charge of sentimentality and is played more for pathos than for comedy. It was Chaplin's last film made in the USA.
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The article, being libelous, had to be returned as impossible; and I had to renounce my dream of dragging its author into the limelight.
Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
He was willing to do that, for he was a true son of the great city of razzle-dazzle, and to him one evening in the limelight made up for many dark ones.
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A young man whom he had once corrected had christened him, half jestingly, Sir Galahad, and certainly his life in London, a life which had to bear all the while the test of the limelight, had appeared to merit some such title.
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