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While taking drama lessons at Badminton, Guildhall School, and the Central School of Speech and Drama, Claire Bloom began appearing on BBC radio, and made her stage debut at 15 with the Oxford Repertory. She made her London bow in 1947, and the following year was effusively praised for her performance as Ophelia in a Stratford-upon-Avon production of Hamlet. Also in 1948, she appeared in her first film, The Blind Goddess (1948). While gainfully employed at the Old Vic in 1952, Bloom was selected by Charlie Chaplin to portray the suicidal ballerina Terry in Chaplin's Limelight. Though the film was inadequately distributed due to Chaplin's "questionable" political beliefs, Limelight made Bloom an overnight star -- after only nine years in the business. Her next major film assignment was Lady Anne in Olivier's Richard III (1955), which led to a steady stream of costume roles in films like Alexander the Great (1956), The Brothers Karamazov (1959), The Buccaneer (1959), and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962). Of her "contemporary" film roles, several are standouts: the sexually unstable housewife in The Chapman Report, the lesbian psychic in The Haunting (1963), the compassionate psychiatrist in Charly (1968), and Martin Landau's Jewish-suburbanite wife in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). Her TV work has included Edith Galt Wilson in Backstairs at the White House (1979) and Lady Marchman in Brideshead Revisited (1982). Whenever her schedule has allowed, Bloom has returned to her first love, the theater; her favorite stage role is Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Married three times, Bloom's first husband was actor Rod Steiger, with whom she co-starred in 3 Into 2 Won't Go (1969) and The Illustrated Man (1969); her second was producer Hillard Elkins, who packaged Bloom's 1973 film version of The Doll's House; and her third was novelist Philip Roth. In 1982, Claire Bloom published her autobiography, Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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House of Life (2007)
Tags: Culture & Society Sociology
Length: 52min
Claire Bloom narrates this documentary about The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, the burial site that some claim houses up to 100,000 members of Prague's historic Jewish community. When the Germans occupied Prague in World War II, the cemetery was the...
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Kalamazoo? (2005)
Tags: Road Movie Reunion Films Comedy
Length: 93min
A trio of lifelong friends returns to their hometown of Kalamazoo, MI, for their ten-year high-school reunion, only to discover that their graduation time capsule contains embarrassingly unmet goals for all of them in director David P. O'Malley's...
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The Lady in Question (1999)
Cast: Cherry Jones Gene Wilder Bruce Surtees
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 100min
Gene Wilder wrote and starred in this detective story produced for the A&E cable television network. Set in 1938, Wilder plays Larry "Cash" Carter, a one-time Broadway theatrical director who has moved to a quiet Connecticut town, where he oversees a...
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Wrestling with Alligators (1998)
Cast: Claire Bloom Jay O. Sanders Joely Richardson
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 95min
Laurie Weltz directed this period drama, set in 1959 at a seaside New Jersey town where former silent-screen actress Lulu Fraker (Claire Bloom) runs Lulu's Look Out, a women's rooming house. Teen Maddy Hawkins (Aleksa Palladino of Manny & Lo),...
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What The Deaf Man Heard (1997)
Cast: James Earl Jones Tom Skerritt Matthew Modine
Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy Drama
Length: 120min
Scripter Robert W. Lenski adapted G.D. Gearino's novel What the Deaf-Mute Heard for this Hallmark Hall of Fame comedy. It was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, by director John Kent Harrison. During the '40s, single mother Helen (Bernadette...
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Remember (1993)
Cast: Ian Richardson Stephen Collins
Tags: Mystery
Length: min
This romantic mystery is based on a novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford and chronicles a journalist's investigation of his bride-to-be's disappearance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Intimate Contact (1987)
Tags: Drama
Length: 140min
After a brief business-trip fling, a white-collar executive (Daniel Massey) learns he has contracted AIDS, and he and his wife (Claire Bloom) are forced to come to grips with his mortality. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
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Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed (1994)
Tags: Jazz & Modern Dance Biography Dance
Length: 60min
This documentary chronicles the life and work of the woman who revolutionized the world of dance; without Martha Graham, modern dance would not be the same. She developed a completely new dance idiom, expressing itself in angular, percussive gestures....
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The Princess and the Goblin (1992)
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Family-Oriented Adventure Family
Length: 60min
This animated fantasy is based on a famed fairy tale by late-19th century writer George MacDonald. It is the tale of a brave princess who teams up with the son of a miner to go underground and stop the mischievous goblins from revolting. The film...
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The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side (1992)
Tags: Whodunit Mystery Detective Film
Length: 100min
The final installment of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side first aired in 1992. Miss Jane Marple (Joan Hickson) investigates the poisoning death of a party guest at the...
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