Word: verdoux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Martha Raye, 36, cavern-mouthed comedienne of screen (Monsieur Verdoux) and TV (All Star Review): her fourth husband, Nick Condos, 45, manager of her Miami Beach nightspot, the Five O'Clock Club; after ten years of marriage, one daughter; in Miami...
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...
...Modern Times. 2. Shoulder Arms. 3. City Lights. 4. The Great Dictator. 5. Monsieur Verdoux...
...inch a classic, City Lights should endure as long as anything on film. After a steady diet of movies that talk more than they move, cinemaddicts may find that it whets their appetite for other Chaplin pictures that United Artists plans to reissue: Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux...
These are sad days for the American comedy. Within the last few years Milton Berle became Mr. Television, Charlie Chaplin withdrew "Monsieur Verdoux" from circulation, W. C. Fields died and now the Marx brothers have been cast in a backstage musical...