Limelight, original story and screenplay by Charles Chaplin ; directed by Charles Chaplin ; a United Artists release
Type
Label
Limelight, original story and screenplay by Charles Chaplin ; directed by Charles Chaplin ; a United Artists release
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Not rated
Main title
Limelight
Oclc number
906617543
Responsibility statement
original story and screenplay by Charles Chaplin ; directed by Charles Chaplin ; a United Artists release
Runtime
137
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 756
Summary
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs
Table Of Contents
disc 1. [Feature film] -- disc 2. [Special features]
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- Celebrated Productions
- Thorne, Riley
- Robinson, David, 1930-
- Bloom, Claire, 1931-
- Williams, Keith, 1924-2008
- Brock, Timothy
- Rasch, Ray, 1917-1964
- Bruce, Nigel, 1895-1953
- Hayden, Melissa
- Inge, Joe
- Lloyd, Norman, 1914-
- United Artists (Firm)
- Bennett, Marjorie, 1894-1982
- Bagh, Peter von, 1943-2014
- Lourié, Eugene
- Chaplin, Sydney
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966
- Struss, Karl, 1886-1981
- Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
- Eglevsky, André
Subject
- Comedians -- England -- London -- Drama
- Comedians
- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- Vaudeville
- Vaudeville -- Drama
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
- Ballet dancers
- England + London
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films -- United States
- Man-woman relationships
- Feature films
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- England -- London -- Drama
- Fiction films
- Ballet dancers -- England -- London -- Drama
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Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor21
- Celebrated Productions
- Thorne, Riley
- Robinson, David, 1930-
- Bloom, Claire, 1931-
- Williams, Keith, 1924-2008
- Brock, Timothy
- Rasch, Ray, 1917-1964
- Bruce, Nigel, 1895-1953
- Hayden, Melissa
- Inge, Joe
- Lloyd, Norman, 1914-
- United Artists (Firm)
- Bennett, Marjorie, 1894-1982
- Bagh, Peter von, 1943-2014
- Lourié, Eugene
- Chaplin, Sydney
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966
- Struss, Karl, 1886-1981
- Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
- Eglevsky, André
- Genre4
- Subject16
- Comedians -- England -- London -- Drama
- Comedians
- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- Vaudeville
- Vaudeville -- Drama
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
- Ballet dancers
- England + London
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films -- United States
- Man-woman relationships
- Feature films
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- England -- London -- Drama
- Fiction films
- Ballet dancers -- England -- London -- Drama
- Content3
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- resource.artdirector1
- resource.conductor1
- resource.costumedesigner1
- resource.directorofphotography1
- resource.editorofmovingimagework1
- resource.filmdirector1
- Film distributor1
- resource.filmmaker1
- Is Part Of1
- composerexpression2
- resource.productioncompany1
- Publisher1
- resource.screenwriter1
- resource.writerofsupplementarytextualcontent1
- Mapped to1