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...LIMELIGHT HE BASKED 'TIL AT LAST HE WAS ASKED...
...confidence Claire Bloom felt about herself at 14 is now, seven years later, shared by a majority of the critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Even those who did not like Charles Chaplin's self-conscious new film, Limelight, showered Claire, his leading lady, with such adjectives as "poignant," "delightful," "brilliant," "touching," "charming," "perfect." This week in London, Claire is winding up the second month of a triumphant Romeo and Juliet at the historic Old Vic theater. She has been hailed as the most enchanting Juliet in memory...
Says Chaplin: "I tested hundreds of girls for Limelight. They were all very pretty, very candy-box, very deadpan, but not what I needed. Claire has distinction, an enormous range, and, underneath her sadness, there is this bubbling humor, so unexpected, so wistful." Claire is a pretty girl, but no beauty: the quality that makes critics and plainer-spoken men yearn over her is charm-a charm to whose single-minded cultivation she has devoted her whole, determined young life. One critic has compared this quality to "the wistful beauty of a lonely blossom of wood sorrel." Of her Juliet...
...Cheesecake. Hollywood and Claire never got beyond nodding acquaintance. Although the ballet close-ups from Limelight show that she has an attractive figure and lovely legs, she refused to pose for cheesecake pictures ("I'm not supposed to be Betty Grable"). She gives her measurements as 5 ft. 3, 112 Ibs. Pressed for further details, she cries in a fury: "What has that to do with acting...
...Calif. At the time she married Bing, newspapers headlined, DIXIE LEE MARRIES BAND SINGER, and a Hollywood producer warned: "You will have to support him for the rest of your life." As her husband's success grew (he is long since a multimillionaire), she retired from the theatrical limelight, bore four sons. Following an abdominal operation, she got out of bed last week, against doctor's orders, went to the railroad station to welcome Bing back from moviemaking in France. Next day she asked to join the faith of Bing and her four sons, was baptized into...