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Two answers required. In June 2024, the Pear Theater premiered a Greg Lam play centered on these two actors’ interactions on set. A quote comparing these two actors advises (-5[1])“let [one] be king, and [the other] court jester” in a work by Walter Kerr. While these two (15[1])actors’ characters put on makeup in a dressing room, one of these actors tells the other “I never thought it’d come to this,” before complaining about the number of people who keep saying it’s “like old times.” In a film that was heavily boycotted (15[1])for one of these actors’ alleged (*) communist sympathies, he plays a washed-up comedian eventually reunited with a partner played (10[1])by the other of these two actors, who had rapidly declined in popularity after a disastrous deal with MGM. The 1952 film Limelight is the only one in which these two actors appeared on screen together. For 10 points, name these two often-compared (10[1])giants of silent comedy. (10[1])■END■

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