Limelight
The invention of limelight may not have been welcomed by all theater directors in the 1800s. Suddenly, their actors began competing for the most desirable area of the stage--the front and ce...
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Critical Essay by Theodore Huff
Chaplin's first picture in five years has for its theme "the glamor of the limelight—from which age must pass as youth enters."… Howe...
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Critical Essay by Gavin Lambert
Thirty years ago Chaplin had encompassed tragi-comedy with a purity of form and feeling unique in the cinema, and from a historical point of view the qualities of Limel...
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Critical Essay by J. L. Tallenay
"Limelight's" scenario unquestionably sounds melodramatic. Various critics have expressed the opinion that it is poorly done. Its very constructio...
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Critical Essay by Parker Tyler
I think that [Limelight] is to be considered a mea culpa: an expression by the comedian that is more than art or entertainment; in brief, a moral credo that was designed...
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Critical Essay by Vernon Young
Limelight cruelly exposes the limitations of Chaplin as producer, for it is everything, most of the time, a movie shouldn't be: overwritten, underdirected, slowly...
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Limelight
