1925 in film

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Events

• November 5: The Big Parade holds its Grand Premier
• December 30: premier of Ben-Hur the most expensive silent film ever made costing 4-6 million dollars (an astronomical sum when adjusted to inflation)

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1925

U.S.A. unless stated

• Are Parents People?
• The Battleship Potemkin (Bronyenosyets Potyomkin), directed by Sergei Eisenstein - (U.S.S.R.)
• Ben-Hur, directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramón Novarro, Francis X. Bushman and May McAvoy
• The Big Parade, directed by King Vidor and starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
• Braveheart, starring Rod La Rocque
• Chess Fever (Шахматная горячка) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Circle
• Cobra, starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi
• Corazón Aymara, directed by Pedro Sambarino; first Bolivian fiction feature film
• The Dark Angel, directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Vilma Bánky and Ronald Colman
• Don Q, Son of Zorro starring Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor and Donald Crisp
• The Eagle, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky
• East Lynne, starring Edmund Lowe
• The Everlasting Whisper, starring Tom Mix
• Le fantome du Moulin-Rouge (The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge), directed by René Clair - (France)
• Fifty-Fifty, starring Hope Hampton, Lionel Barrymore and Louise Glaum
• The Freshman, starring Harold Lloyd
• General Nogi and Kumasan (Nogi taisho to Kumasan) - (Japan)
• Go West, starring Buster Keaton
• The Gold Rush, a Charlie Chaplin film
• The Goose Woman, directed by Clarence Brown and starring Louise Dresser
• The Heart Breaker
• His People
• His Supreme Moment directed by Marshall Neilan and starring his wife Blanche Sweet with Ronald Colman
• El Húsar de la muerte (Hussar of the Dead), starring and directed by Pedro Sienna - (Chile)
• Isn't Life Terrible
• Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse), directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Greta Garbo - (Germany)
• The King on Main Street, starring Bessie Love & Adolphe Menjou dir. by Monta Bell
• A Kiss For Cinderella
• The Lady, starring Norma Talmadge
• Lady Windermere's Fan, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Ronald Colman and May McAvoy
• Little Annie Rooney, starring Mary Pickford
• The Lost World, starring Bessie Love and Wallace Beery
• The Lucky Devil, starring Richard Dix
• Madame Behave, starring Julian Eltinge and Ann Pennington
• Master of the House (Du skal ære din hustru) - (Denmark)
• Men and Women, starring Richard Dix
• The Merry Widow, directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert
• Les Misérables - (France)
• The Monster, starring Lon Chaney
• The Mystic, starring Aileen Pringle; directed by Tod Browning
• Orochi - (Japan)
• Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, and Norman Kerry
• The Plastic Age - directed by Wesley Ruggles, screen-written by Frederica Sagor Maas, starring Clara Bow (her debut) and Gilbert Roland; Clark Gable was also in this film
• The Pleasure Garden, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli - (Britain)
• Pretty Ladies, directed by Monta Bell
• Quo Vadis (1925 Film), starring Emil Jannings
• The Rat, starring Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans - (Britain)
• Sally, Irene and Mary directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford & Sally O'Neil
• Sally of the Sawdust, directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Carol Dempster and W.C. Fields
• Seven Chances, a Buster Keaton film
• Smouldering Fires directed by Clarence Brown and starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante
• Stella Dallas, starring Ronald Colman and Belle Bennett
• The Street of Forgotten Men
• Street Sketches (Gaijo no suketchi) - (Japan)
• Strike (Stachka), directed by Sergei Eisenstein - U.S.S.R.)
• The Swan directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki; starring Frances Howard, Adolphe Menjou and Ricardo Cortez
• Tartuffe, directed by F. W. Murnau - (Germany)
• Thou Shalt Honor Thy Wife, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Denmark)
• Three Weeks in Paris, starring Matt Moore
• Too Many Kisses, directed by Paul Sloane
• Tumbleweeds, starring William S. Hart
• Under the Crimson Sunset (Akai yuhi ni terasarete) - (Japan)
• The Unholy Three, starring Lon Chaney
• Variete (Jealousy), starring Emil Jannings - (Germany)
• Visages d'enfants (Faces of Children), directed by Jacques Feyder - (France)
• The Whirlpool of Fate (La Fille de l'eau), directed by Jean Renoir - (France)
• The White Lily Laments (Shirayuri wa nageku) - (Japan)
• Wizard of Oz, starring Dorothy Dwan
• Wolf Blood
• Womanhandled, starring Richard Dix and Esther Ralston
• A Woman of the World, starring Pola Negri

Comedy film series

• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
• Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
• Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924–1936)

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)
• Alice Comedies
  • Alice Cans the Cannibals
  • Alice the Toreador
  • Alice Gets Stung
  • Alice Solves the Puzzle
  • Alice's Egg Plant
  • Alice Loses Out
  • Alice is Stage Struck
  • Alice Wins the Derby
  • Alice Picks the Champ
  • Alice's Tin Pony
  • Alice Chops the Suey
  • Alice the Jail Bird
  • Alice Plays Cupid
  • Alice Rattled by Rats
  • Alice in the Jungle
• Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
• Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
• Un-Natural History (1925–1927)

Births

• January 6 - Enrique Carreras, film director, producer (died 1995)
• January 9 - Lee Van Cleef, actor (died 1989)
• January 13 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (died 2000)
• January 26 - Paul Newman, actor (died 2008)
• January 30 - Dorothy Malone, actress
• February 8 - Jack Lemmon, actor (died 2001)
• February 11 - Kim Stanley, actress (died 2001)
• February 17 - Hal Holbrook, actor
• February 18 - George Kennedy, actor
• February 20 - Robert Altman, director (died 2006)
• February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, director (died 1984)
• April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor (died 2002)
• April 19 - Hugh O'Brian, actor
• June 3 - Tony Curtis, actor (died 2010)
• June 21 - Maureen Stapleton, actress (died 2006)
• July 1 - Farley Granger, actor (died 2011)
• July 20 - Lola Albright, actress
• August 11 - Arlene Dahl, actress
• August 23 - Robert Mulligan, director (died 2008)
• September 8 - Peter Sellers, comedian, actor (died 1980)
• October 3 - Gore Vidal, writer, actor
• October 5 - Gail Davis, actress (died 1997)
• October 16 - Angela Lansbury, actress
• November 10 - Richard Burton, actor (died 1984)
• November 17 - Rock Hudson, actor (died 1985)
• December 2 - Julie Harris, Broadway and film actress
• December 8 - Sammy Davis Jr., singer, dancer, musician, actor (died 1990)
• December 12 - Anne V. Coates, British film editor
• December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, actor
• December 28 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer (died 2002)

Deaths

• February 7 - Kate Meek(aka Kate Meeks); long time & elderly American character actress
• February 21 – American actor George S. Trimble^[1]
• February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French film director (born 1873)
• March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress
• April 16 – David Powell, British actor born in Scotland
• June 22 –, Charles Smiley, veteran American movie actor,^[2]
• July – Jacques Bizeul, French cinematographer
• July 29 – Mark Fenton, American character actor
• September 2 – American actor William Riley Hatch^[3]
• October 31 – Max Linder, French comedic actor (born 1883)
• November 1 – Lester Cuneo American actor
• November 3 – Lucile McVey, actress second wife of Sidney Drew appeared in numerous comedies
• November 14 – American actor Al W. Filson^[4]
• December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, silent film actress, sister of Mae Marsh
• December 21 – Lottie Lyell, pioneer Australian female director/producer
• December 22 – Mary Thurman, silent film actress
• December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards American film director (born 1867)

Film debuts

• Gary Cooper
• Joan Crawford
• Myrna Loy
• Tyrone Power
• Dolores del Río

References