Claire Bloom
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 Claire Bloom facts

• 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