Limelight

When Calvero has returned to the flat after his failure to revive his career at the Middlesex Music Hall, Thereza is sitting in an armchair, which has a blanket draped over the back.

For most of the scene, when you see her in close-up, the blanket is folded over the middle of the chair-back, and so part of the chair-back is visible.

In the long shots, however, the blanket is unfolded and draped fully, covering the chair-back.

Towards the end of the scene of Calvero and Thereza's conversation, this is fixed so that the blanket is always folded and draped over the middle.

When Calvero returns after his failure to revive his career at the Middlesex Music Hall, the clock on the mantelpiece behind Thereza jumps back and forth 45 minutes.

During the final comedy act, the pianist's chair changes between shots.

In discussing the ballet with the cast, the director casts a giant shadow over the auditorium (revealing it to be nothing more than a painting).

The film begins in the summer of 1914, as the First World War began, but less than a year passes before a newsboy shows a headline "United States Enters War", which didn't happen until April, 1917, and Neville is drafted, though the draft did not begin until 1916.

Curiously, only one person appears in uniform, despite England being on a war footing.

The letter Calvero receives from Redfern states that his performance at Middlesex is on Monday 5 September.

In 1914, when the scene is supposed to take place, 5 September was a Saturday.

During the climactic ballet, the spelling on the tombstone alternates between COLUMBINE and COLOMBINE.

In the dressing room scene with his partner, Calvero is darkening his left eyebrow.

When a visitor enters the room, a quick shot of Calvero reveals both eyebrows darkened.

As the conversation continues with his partner, Calvero's right eyebrow remains untouched.

While Thereza is convalescing in Calvero's apartment, Calvero is shown removing a soiled towel and placing it in a large bowl on the bed.

In the subsequent wider shot, the bowl is no longer there.

Chaplin plays Calvero, a retired clown. Well, a clown who is no longer desired by the public.

Charlie Chaplin is undeniably one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time. And Limelight is probably his most personal and underrated film.

Many admirers of the arts like to point to a work that defines an artist's career or summarizes it in a way which contains many of the artist's common characteristics, themes, and motifs with a smattering of autobiographical elements. Critics would include Shakespeare's The Tempest, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Bergman's Fanny & Alexander in this classification.

"Limelight" was not a comedy but a drama with comedic overtones. "Charles" Chaplin had abandoned his little tramp character after "Modern Times" (1936).

For the first half of the film I was sincerely entranced by both the story, and Chaplins dramatic acting. But somewhere in tbe second half I began to lose interest.

Limelight (1952) : Brief Review -Another TIMELESS and HAUNTING MASTERPIECE by Legend Charles Chaplin. Majority of people around the globe Knows Charles Chaplin for his silent films which were made for just entertainment.

"That's all any of us are. Amateurs.

This is a brief review of Charlie Chaplin's last six feature films.A comical take on Lang's "Metropolis" (1927), Chaplin's "Modern Times" opens with the words "a story of industry and individual enterprise, humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness!

The last scene, two lengeds on stage together. "I'd like to continue, but I'm stuck.