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Clown | Ballet Dancer
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Best Music Original Dramatic Score | 1973
Most Promising Newcomer to Film | 1953 | Claire
Top Ten Films | 1952
1953 | Charlie
Outstanding Translated Foreign Film | 1979
Best Foreign Film Mejor Pelcula Extranjera | 1956
Best Foreign Actor | 1953 | Charlie
Best Film from any Source | 1953
Budget 900,000 USD
Box Office Collection 1,000,000 USD
The Academy Award that Sir Charles Chaplin won for composing this film's score is the only competitive Oscar he ever received; his other awards were given to him for special achievement outside of the established categories.
The flea circus act in the film was a comedy idea that Sir Charles Chaplin had conceived of in 1919. Originally, he used it in the one completed scene of an aborted film project called The Professor (1919). Later, he attempted to use the idea for The Circus (1928) and The Great Dictator (1940), but could not justify it in either plot. Finally, in this film he was able to use the act.
The children in Calvero's first scene, the ones who tell him the landlady isn't home, are Sir Charles Chaplin's own children.
When some scenes were reshot, Claire Bloom was unavailable, so Sir Charles Chaplin's wife, Oona Chaplin, stood in for her. She can be seen lying in the bed through the doorway after the housemaid has told Chaplin's character that his "wife" isn't eating.
Sir Charles Chaplin, Ray Rasch, and Larry Russell won the Oscar for Best Original Score for this film, but it was the Oscar for films released in 1972. The picture had never played in a Los Angeles-area cinema during the intervening 20 years and was not eligible for Oscar consideration until it did.
"Terry: If all else fails, there's always that little home in the country. Calvero: This is my home, here. Terry: I thought you hated the theater. Calvero: I do. I also hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins."
"Calvero: There's something about working the streets I like. It's the tramp in me I suppose."
