Research Catalog

Title

Limelight [videorecording]

Publication

1952.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
• Bloom, Claire, 1931-
• Hayden, Melissa
• Eglevsky, André
• Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966
• Struss, Karl, 1886-1981.
• Lourié, Eugene
• Maracci, Carmelita, 1911-1987

Description

1 videocassette. 137 min. : sd. b&w NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

An aging music hall entertainer restores a suicidal dancer's interest in life and love. The film is preceded by approx. 4 min. of previews.

Note

• Motion picture originally released by United Artists in 1952 as a Film de Dam presentation; reissued as a videotape in 1989 by Key Video, a division of CBS/Fox Video, New York. Director: Charlie Chaplin. Director of photography: Karl Struss.
• Choreography: André Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Charlie Chaplin; choreography for corps de ballet: Carmelita Maracci. Music: Charlie Chaplin. Original story/screenplay: Charlie Chaplin. Art direction: Eugene Lourie. Costumes: Riley Thorne.

Performer (note)

• Charlie Chaplin (Calvero), Claire Bloom (Thereza), Buster Keaton (Calvero's partner), Sydney Chaplin (Neville), André Eglevsky (a dancer), Melissa Hayden [Claire Bloom's double in dance scenes], others.

Contents

DANCE CONTENTS: Performing flea act, sung and mimed by Chaplin. -- "It's love," sung and danced by Chaplin, with Bloom. -- Harem dance by corps de ballet of the Empire Theatre. -- Audition dance, perf. by Hayden. -- The death of Columbine (ballet), perf. by Bloom/Hayden (Columbine) and Eglevsky (Harlequin), with Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Jr., Wheeler Dryden, and female ensemble. -- Ballet solo, perf. by Hayden. -- Three music hall turns: reprise of performing flea act; "Oh, for the life of a sardine"; and violinist and pianist skit, perf. by Chaplin and Keaton. -- Ballet solo, perf. by Hayden.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1584

OCLC

NYPY936036866-F

Title

Limelight [videorecording]

Imprint

1952.

Cast

Charlie Chaplin (Calvero), Claire Bloom (Thereza), Buster Keaton (Calvero's partner), Sydney Chaplin (Neville), André Eglevsky (a dancer), Melissa Hayden [Claire Bloom's double in dance scenes], others.

Local Subject

Ballet in motion pictures. Limelight.

Clowns and fools.

Variety dancing -- England.

Added Author

Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, film director.

Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, choreographer.

Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, screenwriter.

Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, actor.

Bloom, Claire, 1931- actor.

Hayden, Melissa, choreographer, dancer.

Eglevsky, André, choreographer, dancer.

Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966, actor.

Struss, Karl, 1886-1981. Cinematographer

Lourié, Eugene, art director.

Maracci, Carmelita, 1911-1987, choreographer.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1584