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Niagara (20th Century-Fox) is a thin trickle of melodrama with a Niagara Falls setting. The picture casts Marilyn Mon roe as a curvaceous tramp who plots to murder her husband (Joseph Gotten...
...Sica heightens his fantasy with a cast of unbelievable, but highly amusing characters, a grouchy tramp who longs to possess a silk hat, an effervescent, scatterbrained old woman, who dies and becomes an equally bouncing angel, and a weak-kneed general. To put across such unreal nonsense as Miracle in Milan, all the actors must show no signs of farcical acting. Since they do not, the motion picture is delightful...
Described by Chaplin as "a drama with comedy relief," Limelight avoids the ideological preoccupations and messages of his three previous films, Monsieur Verdoux (1947), The Great Dictator (1940) and Modern Times (1936), and goes back to the simple little tramp-meets-girl, loves-girl, loses-girl theme of his famed silent movies. But Chaplin no longer plays the tramp with the cane, battered derby, brush mustache and oversized shoes. In Limelight he is a dapper, though slightly seedy (and in heavy stage make-up rather repulsive) clown in spats and velvet-collared coat. Only a few reminders...
...wintry artificiality, a few of the individual performances sometimes have a springtime sweetness. In Claire Bloom,* Chaplin has found one of his loveliest leading ladies and an actress of lyric grace. Chaplin's own acting now & again glimmers with the poignancy of his internationally beloved little tramp. And in one magnificent music-hall scene, in which Chaplin plays a left-handed violinist and stony-faced Buster Keaton an impossibly nearsighted pianist, the two greatest comedians of the silent screen make Limelight glow with a sure sense of pantomime-timing, as crisply clean and uncluttered a masterpiece of comic craft...
...Lady Is a Tramp...