"Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a reception, panel, and film screening at their Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, on October 3, 2012. Cast members Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd shared their recollections in a conversation moderated by Chaplin biographer and archivist Jeffrey Vance. Limelight (1952 film) Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. 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"
"her home and children, O'Neill also spent time at the studios if Chaplin was working. He often consulted O'Neill for her opinion. She also acted as a stand-in for lead actress Claire Bloom in ""Limelight"" (1952), when a scene had to be reshot after filming had wrapped, and Bloom was already working on another project. While living in Switzerland, the Chaplins added four more children to their family: Eugene Anthony (b. August 1953), Jane Cecil (b. May 1957), Annette Emily (b. December 1959) and Christopher James (b. July 1962). When Chaplin's health gradually started to fail in the late 1960s,"
"Montgomery Clift Edward Montgomery ""Monty"" Clift (; October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor. His ""New York Times"" obituary noted his portrayal of ""moody, sensitive young men"". He is best remembered for roles in ""Red River"" (1948), ""The Heiress"" (1949), ""A Place in the Sun"" (1951), Alfred Hitchcock's ""I Confess"" (1953), ""From Here to Eternity"" (1953), ""The Young Lions"" (1958), ""Judgment at Nuremberg"" (1961), and ""The Misfits"" (1961). He received four Academy Award nominations during his career: three for Best Actor and one for Best Supporting Actor. Along with Marlon Brando and James Dean, Clift was"
"Black Limelight (play) Black Limelight is a stage play by Gordon Sherry which has been adapted for television at least four times. However, at least three of these adaptations are now lost. A version aired as part of British series BBC ""Sunday Night Theatre"". Cast included Jack Allen, Victor Baring, Gladys Boot, Fanny Carby, Patrick Desmond, Nora Gordon, John Howlett, Barry Letts, Alun Owen, Margaret Rawlings, John Robinson and Brian Wilde. Two performances were broadcast, on 1 June 1952 and a few days later on the 5th. Neither of these two performances had their live broadcasts recorded, and as such"
"who also directed, to co-star alongside him. The film catapulted Bloom to stardom, and remains one of her most memorable roles. Biographer Dan Kamin states that ""Limelight"" is a similar story to Chaplin's ""City Lights"", made twenty years earlier, in which Chaplin also helps a heroine overcome a physical handicap. In this film, Bloom plays a suicidal ballerina who ""suffers from hysterical paralysis"". The film had personal meaning for Chaplin as it contained numerous references to his life and family: the theatre where he and Bloom performed in the film was the same theatre where his mother gave her last"
"United States. The cast included various members of his family, including his five oldest children and his half-brother, Wheeler Dryden. Filming began in November 1951, by which time Chaplin had spent three years working on the story. He aimed for a more serious tone than any of his previous films, regularly using the word ""melancholy"" when explaining his plans to his co-star Claire Bloom. ""Limelight"" featured a cameo appearance from Buster Keaton, whom Chaplin cast as his stage partner in a pantomime scene. This marked the only time the comedians worked together. Chaplin decided to hold the world premiere of"
"Lone Star (1952 film) Lone Star is a 1952 Western film starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, and Lionel Barrymore (in his final role) as President Andrew Jackson. The film also marks the first (uncredited) screen appearance by then-thirteen-year-old George Hamilton, playing beside Barrymore in the role of Jackson's servant. The movie is considered both a Western and a romance, set in Texas shortly before statehood. Devereaux Burke gets a personal request from former President Andrew Jackson to facilitate the annexation of Texas into the United States. Opposition to annexation is gaining favor because it is mistakenly"
"Limelight (1936 film) Limelight is a 1936 British musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Arthur Tracy, Anna Neagle and Jane Winton. It was released in the U.S. as ""Backstage"". When chorus girl Marjorie (Anna Neagle) discovers singer Bob (Arthur Tracy) busking in the streets, and the star of her show falls ill, she persuades her producer to give him a break. Sure enough, Bob becomes an overnight sensation, but success unfortunately goes to his head. The film was the first made by Wilcox's independent production company, Herbert Wilcox Productions, at his Elstree Studios. It was distributed by J."
"Black Limelight Black Limelight is a 1936 play by Gordon Sherry that in 1938 became a British crime film directed by Paul L. Stein, starring Joan Marion and Raymond Massey. ""It concerns itself with the murder of a vulgar young woman [Lily]. Suspicion rests on refined young married Peter, who has disappeared, and is known to have spent week-ends with the young woman in question, apparently with the full knowledge of his charming wife [Mary]. She, on hearing of the murder, does everything in her power to screen her spouse. There are, of course, police and detectives on the track,"
"Tracy. This drama musical romance features Arthur Tracy's street singing. The film's Dance Director was Ralph Reader. His work was so appreciated by Herbert Wilcox that he created a part for Reader to dance with Neagle in the actual film. ""Allmovie"" wrote, ""in addition to the two stars, ""Limelight"" is enlivened by the dancing prowess of the legendary Tilly Losch; also showing up for an uncredited cameo is stage and screen luminary Jack Buchanan. Limelight (1936 film) Limelight is a 1936 British musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Arthur Tracy, Anna Neagle and Jane Winton. It was released"
"him. Clift has been portrayed by Dave Franco in the film ""Zeroville"", which was shot in 2015, but as of April 2017, has not been released. Montgomery Clift Edward Montgomery ""Monty"" Clift (; October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor. His ""New York Times"" obituary noted his portrayal of ""moody, sensitive young men"". He is best remembered for roles in ""Red River"" (1948), ""The Heiress"" (1949), ""A Place in the Sun"" (1951), Alfred Hitchcock's ""I Confess"" (1953), ""From Here to Eternity"" (1953), ""The Young Lions"" (1958), ""Judgment at Nuremberg"" (1961), and ""The Misfits"" (1961). He received"
"and Charlie Chaplin were looking for a project on which to collaborate, with Lloyd as director and Chaplin as producer. Lloyd purchased the rights to Horace McCoy's novel for $3,000 and planned to cast Chaplin's son, Sydney, and newcomer Marilyn Monroe in the lead roles. Once arrangements were completed, in 1952 Chaplin took his family on what was intended to be a brief trip to the United Kingdom, for the London premiere of ""Limelight"". During this trip, in part because Chaplin was accused of being a Communist supporter during the McCarthy era, FBI head J. Edgar Hoover negotiated with the"
"""Limelight"" in London, since it was the setting of the film. As he left Los Angeles, he expressed a premonition that he would not be returning. At New York, he boarded the with his family on 18 September 1952. The next day, attorney general James P. McGranery revoked Chaplin's re-entry permit and stated that he would have to submit to an interview concerning his political views and moral behaviour in order to re-enter the US. Although McGranery told the press that he had ""a pretty good case against Chaplin"", Maland has concluded, on the basis of the FBI files that"
"Odets play was directed by John Frankenheimer for ""Playhouse 90"" on June 13, 1957 with Kim Stanley in the lead role. Clash by Night Clash by Night is a 1952 American film noir drama directed by Fritz Lang and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe and Keith Andes. The movie was based on the play by Clifford Odets, adapted by writer Alfred Hayes. This was the first major film in which Monroe was credited before the movie's title, albeit with fourth billing. During the shooting, the now famous nude calendar photos of Monroe surfaced and reporters swarmed"
"listening to one of his favorite songs, a rendition of ""Over the Rainbow"" sung by Ella Fitzgerald. Gene Wilder Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author. Wilder began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series ""The Play of the Week"" in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion picture ""Bonnie and Clyde"", Wilder's first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film ""The Producers"" for"
"Powers Boothe Powers Allen Boothe (June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017) was an American television, video game, and film actor and voice actor. Some of his most notable roles include his Emmy-winning portrayal of Jim Jones in """" and his turns as TV detective Philip Marlowe in the 1980s, Cy Tolliver on ""Deadwood"", ""Curly Bill"" Brocius in ""Tombstone"", Vice-President and subsequently President Noah Daniels on ""24"", and Lamar Wyatt in ""Nashville"". Boothe, the youngest of three boys, was born on a cotton farm in Snyder, Texas to Kathryn Emily (née Reeves) and Merrill Vestal Boothe, a rancher. His father"
"in east Texas. Powers Boothe Powers Allen Boothe (June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017) was an American television, video game, and film actor and voice actor. Some of his most notable roles include his Emmy-winning portrayal of Jim Jones in """" and his turns as TV detective Philip Marlowe in the 1980s, Cy Tolliver on ""Deadwood"", ""Curly Bill"" Brocius in ""Tombstone"", Vice-President and subsequently President Noah Daniels on ""24"", and Lamar Wyatt in ""Nashville"". Boothe, the youngest of three boys, was born on a cotton farm in Snyder, Texas to Kathryn Emily (née Reeves) and Merrill Vestal Boothe, a"
"film starring Burt Lancaster. He worked as production manager on ""When I Grow Up"" (1951) for Sam Spiegel and production manager on ""The Steel Trap"" (1952) for Andrew L. Stone. Hecht had enjoyed working with Aldrich on ""Ten Tall Men"" and used him on ""The First Time"" (1952), the feature directorial debut of Frank Tashlin. Aldrich's most notable credit to date came on ""Limelight"" (1952), where he was assistant director to Charlie Chaplin. He was assistant on ""Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd"" (1952). By 1952, the 34-year old assistant director, fully prepared to make his directorial debut, no offers"
"Brightlight also produced the CTV/Space Channel series ""Stormworld"", an Australian/Singaporean/Canadian Treaty co-production shot in Perth, Broome, Singapore and Vancouver. Brightlight's UK/Canada feature co-production ""Fifty Dead Men Walking"" starring Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess and Kevin Zegers had its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008 and was released theatrically in the summer of 2009. Brightlight also produced ""Frankie & Alice"" starring Halle Berry and Stellan Skarsgard and the feature film ""Gunless"", a comedy western co-produced with Niv Fichman's Rhombus Media and distributed by Alliance Films starring Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory and Graham Greene."
"kinescope recording still exists. A version aired as part of British series ""BBC Sunday-Night Play"" on 14 January 1962. Cast included Michael Aldridge, Renée Asherson, Neville Barber, Susan Burnet, Robert Cawdron, Edward Evans, Dudley Foster, Gretchen Franklin, Allan McClelland, Charles Simon and Nigel Stock. This version is also lost. Black Limelight (play) Black Limelight is a stage play by Gordon Sherry which has been adapted for television at least four times. However, at least three of these adaptations are now lost. A version aired as part of British series BBC ""Sunday Night Theatre"". Cast included Jack Allen, Victor Baring, Gladys"
"Clifton Webb Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966), known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, dancer, and singer known for his roles in such films as ""Laura"" (1944), ""The Razor's Edge"" (1946), and ""Sitting Pretty"" (1948), all three being Oscar-nominated. He was known for his stage appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, notably ""Blithe Spirit"", as well as appearances on Broadway in a number of very successful musical revues. Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was the only child of Jacob Grant Hollenbeck (1867 – May 2, 1939), the"
"Edmund Goulding Edmund Goulding (20 March 1891 – 24 December 1959) was a British screenwriter and director. As an actor early in his career he was one of the 'Ghosts' in the 1922 silent film ""Three Live Ghosts"" alongside Norman Kerry and Cyril Chadwick. Also in the early 1920s he wrote several screenplays for star Mae Murray for films directed by her then husband Robert Z. Leonard. Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas such as ""Love"" (1927), ""Grand Hotel"" (1932) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, ""Dark Victory"" (1939) with Bette Davis, and ""The Razor's Edge"" (1946) with"
"audience and became an alcoholic, which led to his death in 1901. In both his 1964 autobiography, and his 1974 book ""My Life in Pictures"", however, Chaplin insists that Calvero is based on the life of stage actor Frank Tinney. ""Limelight"" was made during a time where Chaplin himself was starting to lose his audience; in many ways, the movie remains highly autobiographical. The pairing of Chaplin and Buster Keaton in the final musical number is historic for being the only time the two performed together on film. Chaplin at first had not written the part for Keaton because he"
"Joi Lansing from 1951 to 1953. He died on December 22, 2001 at age 73, after a lengthy illness, in Los Angeles. Lance Fuller Lance Fuller (December 6, 1928 – December 22, 2001) was an American actor. He was born in Somerset, Kentucky. He was a contract actor for most of the 1950s with Universal-International. He had many uncredited roles for the first several years of his Hollywood career. His first role was in ""Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man"" (1943), and he was featured (uncredited) in several movies into the 1950s, including ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952). He co-starred in"
"star located at 1551 Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Farley Granger Farley Earle Granger Jr. (July 1, 1925 – March 27, 2011) was an American actor, best known for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock: ""Rope"" in 1948 and ""Strangers on a Train"" in 1951. Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in ""The North Star"", a controversial film praising the Soviet Union at the height of World War II, but later condemned for its political bias. Another war film, ""The Purple"
"a Limelight Award. Kennedy, Claude Rains, and Robert Duvall share the record of four losing nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, although Duvall won for Lead Actor in 1983. He also received a nomination for Best Actor for his performance in ""Bright Victory"" (1951). Kennedy married Mary Cheffey (1915–1975) in March 1938. They had two children: actress Laurie Kennedy and Terence. During the last years of his life Kennedy suffered with thyroid cancer and eye disease. He spent much of his later life in Savannah, Georgia, keeping out of the public eye. He died in 1990 in"
"Claude Rains William Claude Rains (10 November 188930 May 1967) was an English–American film and stage actor whose career spanned several decades. After his American film debut as Dr. Jack Griffin in ""The Invisible Man"" (1933) he appeared in classic films such as ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938), ""Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"" (1939), ""The Wolf Man"" (1941), ""Casablanca"" and ""Kings Row"" (both 1942), ""Notorious"" (1946), ""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"" (1957), and ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962). He was a Tony Award winning actor and was a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Rains was"
"in the Pompano Beach, Florida area. Roberts died of AIDS-related causes in New York in the North Babylon/Fire Island area on July 17, 1992, at his home in New York. Roberts was 65 years old. Larry Roberts (actor) Larry Roberts (September 28, 1926 – July 17, 1992) was an American actor, voice actor and comedian who was most active in the 1950s. Although he was well known for his roles in the 1950s TV series ""Lights, Camera, Action!"", Roberts is probably best known for his role of playing the voice of Tramp in the 1955 movie ""Lady and the Tramp."""
"Sam Levene Sam Levene (born Scholem Lewin, August 28, 1905 – December 28, 1980) was an American Broadway and film actor, who originated numerous legendary roles in 33 original Broadway productions, many considered a part of American theatrical history, including Nathan Detroit in ""Guys and Dolls"" (1950), Horace Vandergelder in ""The Matchmaker"" (1954), Sidney Black in ""Light Up the Sky"" (1948), Patsy in ""Three Men on a Horse"" (1935), Al Lewis in ""The Sunshine Boys"" (1972). Sam Levene also established himself as one of the great noir stalwarts with a long list of film noir credits, a cinematic term used"
"William Holden William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film ""Stalag 17"" (1953), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film ""The Blue Knight"" (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including ""Sunset Boulevard"", ""Sabrina"", ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"", ""The Wild Bunch"", ""Picnic"" and ""Network"". He was"
"like a self-conscious summing up of his life and career. As a journey back to his beginnings and an often rapier-sharp self-critique, ""Limelight"" is Chaplin's most deeply personal and introspective film."" The theme to the film, titled ""Terry's Theme"" (written by Chaplin), became a popular and often-covered song as ""Eternally"", with words by Geoff Parsons and John Turner. In 1973, over 20 years after the film's first release, Chaplin and his musical collaborators Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell were awarded an Oscar for Best Original Dramatic Score. In the case of Larry Russell, JazzWax journalist Marc Myers reports that this"
"Gene Wilder Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author. Wilder began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series ""The Play of the Week"" in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion picture ""Bonnie and Clyde"", Wilder's first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film ""The Producers"" for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This was the first in"
"Jack Lemmon John Uhler ""Jack"" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. Lemmon was an eight-time Academy Award nominee, with two wins. He starred in over 60 films, such as ""Some Like It Hot"", ""The Apartment"", ""Mister Roberts"" (for which he won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), ""Days of Wine and Roses"", ""The Great Race"", ""Irma la Douce"", ""The Odd Couple"" and its sequel ""The Odd Couple II"" (and other frequent collaborations with ""Odd Couple"" co-star Walter Matthau), ""Save the Tiger"" (for which he won the 1973 Academy Award"