Charles Chaplin Limelight screening to feature Claire Bloom Chaplin's 1952 drama turns 60 this year. Honoring the veteran filmmaker and actor's last US-made film (more on that below), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a 60th anniversary screening of the film on Wednesday, October 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. (Please scroll down to check out the film's unexpected Oscar victory two decades after it was made.) As an installment of the Jack Oakie Celebration of Comedy in Film -- even though Limelight is sheer melodrama -- the evening will feature Chaplin "discovery" Claire Bloom, who plays the film's ballerina, and actor Norman Lloyd, who has a supporting role in the film. (Above photo: Bloom and Chaplin together.) Set in the London music halls of the 1910s, Limelight was made shortly before Chaplin was barred from reentering the United States because of his political affiliations. Bloom, then 20 years old and in her first important film role, already displays the qualities that would make her one of the best film (and stage) actresses of the last six decades. Also in Limelight: Buster Keaton (Battling Butler, Go West, College, The Navigator, Sherlock Jr., The General, In the Good Old Summertime); Charles Chaplin's son Sydney Chaplin and young daughter Geraldine Chaplin (Cria Cuervos, Talk to Her, Elisa Vida Mia, De Ojos Vendados); and Stuart Holmes (Rex Ingram's The Prisoner of Zenda), Snub Pollard, and Edna Purviance. Limelight and Oscar: Nominated after Nino Rota's The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola directed, with Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Talia Shire, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Sterling Hayden) score deemed ineligible because based on Fortunella. Charles Chaplin movies: The Pilgrim, A Dog's Life, The Gold Rush with Georgia Hale, The Circus with Merna Kennedy, A Woman of Paris (with Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou), Shoulder Arms, Tillie's Punctured Romance (with Mabel Normand, Marie Dressler), City Lights with Virginia Cherrill, Modern Times with Paulette Goddard, The Great Dictator with Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie, Monsieur Verdoux, with Marilyn Nash and Martha Raye; Limelight with Claire Bloom, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin; A King in New York, with Dawn Addams; A Countess from Hong Kong, with Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, and The Birds' Tippi Hedren. Claire Bloom movies: Robert Wise's The Haunting, with Julie Harris, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn; Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, with Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush, Guy Pearce; Tony Richardson's Look Back in Anger, with Richard Burton; George Cukor's The Chapman Report, with Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Glynis Johns, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.; The Illustrated Man, with Rod Steiger; Martin Ritt's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with Richard Burton, Oskar Werner; Richard III, with Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson; Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great, with Burton, Fredric March, Danielle Darrieux; Carol Reed's The Man Between, with James Mason, Hildegarde Knef; Martin Ritt's The Outrage, with Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson; Clash of the Titans, with Harry Hamlin, Ursula Andress, Olivier, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Maggie Smith, Flora Robson; Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, with Anjelica Huston, Martin Landau; 80,000 Suspects; Dr. Who.