Charles Chaplin made "Limelight" at the most troubled period of his adult career In the late 1940s, America's Cold War paranoia reached its peak...
There seemed to be a sort of fad in the years following World War II of including ballet sequences in films...
As in Chaplin’s scores to "City Lights" and "Modern Times", the heroine’s presence is often accompanied by the same musical theme...
Music and Lyrics by Charles Chaplin
Music and Lyrics by Charles Chaplin
We hear Animal Trainer twice in Limelight - once in a dream, which turns into a nightmare, and secondly, to much applause, at the gala performance arranged in Calvero's honour at the end of the film...
Calvero, a one-time comedy star of the music halls, now fallen on hard times, returns home to his lodgings in his habitual state of inebriation...
A telephone interview with Julian Ludwig, who played a small role as one of the three buskers in Limelight
From a scene in Limelight