With the 1952 film “Limelight” (which I discuss in this clip), Charlie Chaplin was both telling a counterfactual version of his life story and attempting a comeback. He had never lost his fame, but he ...

Charlie Chaplin's Limelight opened on October 23, 1952, launching what would become one of the strangest Oscar stories in Academy history. The film eventually became the only one for which Chaplin won ...

An alert to my colleagues in the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle: I hereby nominate Rob McClure for a Craig Noel Award, Lead Performance in a Musical, Male. His Charlie Chaplin in Limelight, at the ...

“Monsieur Verdoux” is part of a coincidental Charlie Chaplin trifecta that’s joined by “The Gold Rush” (the recent DVD release of which, by Criterion, I discuss in the magazine this week) and ...