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Limelight (1952 film)

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Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. [1]

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Academy Honorary Award

The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented in early 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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André Eglevsky

André Eglevsky (21 December 19174 December 1977) was a Russian-born ballet dancer and teacher who studied in France and, from 1932, danced with Colonel W. de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for several years, as well as other companies in Europe and New York City.

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Benefit concert

A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Bosley Crowther

Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Box office bomb

In the motion picture industry, a "box office bomb" or "box office flop" is a film that is considered highly unsuccessful or unprofitable during its theatrical run, often following significant hype regarding its cost, production, or marketing efforts.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.

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Chaplin family

The Chaplin family is a multinational acting family.

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Charles Chaplin Jr.

Charles Spencer Chaplin III (May 5, 1925 – March 20, 1968) was an American actor.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Claire Bloom

Patricia Claire Blume CBE (born 15 February 1931), better known by her stage name Claire Bloom, is an English film and stage actress whose career has spanned over six decades.

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Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama, also known as dramedy (portmanteau of words drama and comedy), is a genre in film and television works in which plot elements are a combination of comedy and drama.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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Eternally (Charles Chaplin song)

"Eternally" is a song with music by Charles Chaplin, and words by the English lyricists Geoff Parsons and John Turner.

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Film score

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film soundtrack, film music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Frank Tinney

Frank Aloysius Robert Tinney (March 29, 1878 – November 28, 1940) was an American blackface comedian and actor.

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Geoffrey Parsons (lyricist)

Geoffrey Parsons (born Geoffrey Claremont Parsons, 7 January 1910, died 22 December 1987, Eastbourne) was an English lyricist.

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Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944) is a prolific actress of English, French, and Spanish language films, the fourth child of Charlie Chaplin, the first of eight with fourth wife Oona O'Neill.

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Harrison's Reports

Harrison’s Reports was a New York City-based motion picture trade journal published weekly from 1919 to 1962.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Jeffrey Vance

Jeffrey Vance (born May 21, 1970) is an American film historian and author who has published books on movie stars including Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

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John McCarten

John McCarten (September 10, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 25, 1974 in New York City) was an American writer who contributed about 1,000 pieces for The New Yorker, serving as the magazine's film critic from 1945 to 1960 and Broadway theatre critic from 1960 to 1967.

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John Turner (lyricist)

John Turner was the pseudonym used by the English lyricist James John Turner Phillips (born London, July 7, 1932).

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Josephine Chaplin

Josephine Hannah Chaplin (born March 28, 1949) is an American actress and the daughter of filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and his last wife, Oona O'Neill.

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Karl Struss

Karl Struss, A.S.C. (November 30, 1886 – December 15, 1981) was an American photographer and a cinematographer of the 1900s through the 1950s.

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Larry Russell

Larry Russell (October 14, 1913 – February 14, 1954) was an American composer working mostly in the motion picture industry.

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Leonard Mudie

Leonard Mudie (11 April 188314 April 1965) was an English character actor whose career lasted for nearly fifty years.

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Marc Myers

Marc Myers (born September 4, 1956) is an American journalist, author, and historian and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, where he writes on music and the arts.

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Marjorie Bennett

Marjorie Bennett (15 January 1896 – 14 June 1982) was an Australian-born television and film actress, who worked mainly in Britain and the United States. She began her acting career during the silent film era.

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Melissa Hayden (dancer)

Melissa Hayden (born Mildred Herman, April 25, 1923, Toronto; died August 9, 2006, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) was a Canadian ballerina at the New York City Ballet.

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Michael Chaplin (actor)

Michael John Chaplin (born March 7, 1946) is an American actor born in Santa Monica, California.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.

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Nigel Bruce

William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953) was a British character actor on stage and screen.

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Norman Lloyd

Norman Lloyd (born Norman Perlmutter; November 8, 1914) is an American actor, producer and director with a career in entertainment spanning eight decades.

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Oona O'Neill

Oona O'Neill Chaplin, Lady Chaplin (14 May 1925 – 27 September 1991) was the daughter of Nobel and Pulitzer-Prize-winning American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth and last wife of English actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Raymond Rasch

Raymond Rasch (March 1, 1917 – December 23, 1964) was a pianist and arranger on the Hollywood scene in 1950s and 1960s.

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Raymond Rohauer

Raymond Rohauer (1924, Buffalo, New York – November 10, 1987) was an American film collector and distributor.

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Richard L. Coe

Richard Livingston Coe (1914–1995), born in New York City, was a theater and cinema critic for The Washington Post for more than forty years.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Rudi Blesh

Rudi Blesh (January 21, 1899, Guthrie, Oklahoma – August 25, 1985, Gilmanton, New Hampshire) was an American jazz critic and enthusiast.

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Russell Garcia (composer)

Russell Garcia, QSM (12 April 1916 – 19 November 2011) was a composer and arranger who wrote a wide variety of music for screen, stage and broadcast.

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Samuel Goldwyn Theater

The Samuel Goldwyn Theatre is a screening-only movie theater named after filmmaker Samuel Goldwyn.

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Sydney Chaplin (American actor)

Sydney Earl Chaplin (March 30, 1926 – March 3, 2009) was an American actor.

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The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video distribution company which focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films" and selling them to film aficionados.

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The Mercury (Hobart)

The Mercury is a centre-right daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, part of News Corp Australia and News Corp.

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The Monthly Film Bulletin

The Monthly Film Bulletin was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 to April 1991, when it merged with Sight & Sound.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video distribution arm of Warner Bros. Founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (standing for Warner Communications, Inc.), the company primarily releases titles from the film and television library of Warner Bros.

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Wheeler Dryden

George Dryden Wheeler Jr. (31 August 1892 – 30 September 1957) was an English born American actor and film director.

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45th Academy Awards

The 45th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday, March 27, 1973, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, honoring the best films of 1972.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limelight_(1952_film)

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