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Patricia Claire Blume CBE (born 15 February 1931) is an English film and stage actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She is famous for leading roles in plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day's Journey into Night, and has starred in nearly sixty films.
After an uprooted and unstable childhood in war-torn England, Bloom studied drama, which became her passion. She had her debut on the London stage when she was sixteen, and soon took roles in various Shakespeare plays. They included Hamlet, in which she played Ophelia alongside Richard Burton, with whom she would have a "long and stormy" first love affair. For her Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, critic Kenneth Tynan stated it was “the best Juliet I've ever seen.” And after she starred as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, its playwright, Tennessee Williams, was "exultant," stating, "I declare myself absolutely wild about Claire Bloom."
In 1952, Bloom was discovered by Hollywood film star Charlie Chaplin, who had been searching for months for an actress with "beauty, talent, and a great emotional range," to co-star alongside him in Limelight. It became Bloom's film debut and made her into an international film star. During her lengthy film career, she starred alongside numerous major actors, including Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Ralph Richardson, Yul Brynner, George C. Scott, James Mason, Paul Newman and Rod Steiger, whom she would marry.
Claire Bloom is hungry...
Claire Bloom Remembers "Limelight" and Chaplin
Claire Bloom on Charlie Chaplin
80,000 Suspects (1963) Drama, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan
Tony Earnshaw in conversation with Claire Bloom (Widescreen Weekend 2011)
Limelight (1952) - Charles Chaplin and Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom on "The Haunting"
Andre Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom - Two Scenes from 'Limelight' (1952)
Claire Bloom on Richard III
The Secret Garden read by Claire Bloom (1976)
Actors: Jeff Sinasac (actor), Jonathan Robbins (producer), Rick Gomes (actor), Rick Gomes (actor), Mark DeNicola (actor), Peter Hodgins (actor), Jennifer De Lucia (actress), Anne Shepherd (actress), Lindsay Lyon (actress), Barbara de la Fuente (actress), Kelly Paoli (actor), Lisa Andry-Dargel (actress), Alberto Tihan (actor), Wil Wong (producer), Wil Wong (producer),
Plot: Nora Denucci lives a simple life selling flowers. One day she is told that she's the heir to a corporation, only she doesn't know how or why. She tries her best to adapt with the help of Claire Bloom, the company's CEO. Nora then meets James Rivoli, the company's industry rival who makes Nora self confident about her credentials and even more, who she is. As far as Nora knows, she's been an orphan and lived her life with an old woman. Still, who really is she and how is she connected to this Company? This is the story of what happens 'after' the music ends.
Keywords: corporate-social-responsibility, corporation, death, destiny, disabled, dreams, leadership, love, motherhood, poverty