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The 24th Academy Awards were held on March 20, 1952, honoring the films of 1951. The ceremony was hosted by Danny Kaye. An American in Paris and A Place in the Sun each received six Oscars, splitting Best Picture and Best Director, respectively.
Music Awards. An American in Paris / A Place in the Sun / Here Comes the Groom. Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, Franz Waxman, Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael.
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film.
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The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I, and the year Chaplin made his first film, Making a Living. Calvero (Charlie Chaplin), once a famous stage clown, but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza "Terry" Ambrose (Claire Bloom), from a suicide attempt. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her se...
Although the film is set in London, it was entirely filmed in the Hollywood area, mostly at the Chaplin Studios. The street where Calvero lives was a redressed set at Paramount Studios, the music hall scenes were filmed at RKO-Pathé studios, and some exterior scenes use back-projected footage of London. Filming took 55 days. Chaplin prominently fea...
The film opened October 23, 1952 at the Astor Theatre and at the Trans-Lux 60th Street theatre in New York Cityand was shown for three months to good business. Contemporary reviews found much to admire in the film, but commonly faulted it as excessively long and verbose. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it "a brilliant weaving of comic ...
The instrumental theme to the film, composed by Chaplin and titled "The Terry Theme", was arranged for 40-piece orchestra with a large string section by Leon Young for Frank Chacksfield and issued by Decca Records in 1953. This disc won Chacksfield a gold disc in the United States, and in the United Kingdom, where it reached No. 2 in the UK Singles...
In 2000, Limelight was released in the United States on DVD from Image Entertainment, which later went out of print. In 2003, it was released on a special edition two-disc DVD set from Warner Home Video, which also later went out of print. The Criterion Collection released the film on both Blu-ray and DVD in the United States on May 19, 2015. A fou...
The sixtieth anniversary of Limelight was celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a reception, panel, and film screening at their Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, on October 3, 2012. Cast members Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd shared their recollections in a conversation moderated by Chaplin biographer ...
Eyman, Scott 2023. Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex and Politics Collided. Simon & Schuster, New York. ISBN 978-1-9821-7635-8The Criterion Collection staff (2015). Limelight (booklet). Gris, Henry (article: Hollywood Chaplin). New York: The Criterion Collection. ISBN 978-1-60465-994-8.Limelight at IMDbLimelight at AllMovieLimelight at the TCM Movie DatabaseLimelight at the AFI Catalog of Feature FilmsMay 5, 2016 · Here's a question that needs to be asked - what on earth was the Academy smoking in 1952? This was the year the dreadful The Greatest Show on Earth defeated the legendary likes of High Noon (the winner in this category...which I'll get to in just a bit) and The Quiet Man.
Major Award Categories: Winners and Nominees. In 1952, during the 24th Academy Awards Cerimony, held on 20/03/1952 the following movies, actors, actresses and directors were awarded with the Oscar in 5 categories honoring the films released in 1952:
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Singin' in the Rain: Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. With Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen. A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
