Limelight (1952 film)
Limelight is a 1952 film about a washed-up vaudeville performer who befriends a young dancer.
- Written and directed by Charles Chaplin.
It will move you to love, laughter and tears.taglines
Calvero
[edit]- What do you want meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Desire is the theme of all life!
- There's something about working the streets I like. It's the tramp in me I suppose.
- That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.
- Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination... and a little dough.
Dialogue
[edit]- Terry: [after attempting suicide] I'm sorry.
- Calvero: You should be. A young girl like you wanting to throw your life away. Heh! When you are my age you want to hang onto it.
- Terry: Worms can't smile!
- Calvero: Oh, how would you know, have you ever appealed to their sense of humour?
- Calvero's partner: If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window!
- Postant: [enters] Here we are again, lads, just like old times!
- Terry: So few of us have the ability to really feel.
- Calvero: Or the opportunity.
- Calvero: My home is the theater.
- Terry: I thought you hated the theater.
- Calvero: I also hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.
Taglines
[edit]- It will move you to love, laughter and tears.
- The masterpiece of laughter and tears from the master of comedy!
Cast
[edit]- Charles Chaplin - Calvero
- Claire Bloom - Thereza "Terry" Embrose
- Nigel Bruce - Postant
- Buster Keaton - Calvero's partner
- Sydney Chaplin - Ernest Neville
- Norman Lloyd - Bodalink
External links
[edit]
- Limelight quotes at the Internet Movie Database