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.)

Rank	Title	Actors
1.	The Big Parade	John Gilbert
2.	Ben-Hur	Ramón Novarro
3.	The Plastic Age	Clara Bow
4.	The Freshman	John Grey
5.	His People
6.	The Gold Rush	Charlie Chaplin
7.	The Merry Widow	Mae Murray
8.	Stella Dallas	Belle Bennett and Ronald Colman
9.	The Lost World	Bessie Love and Wallace Beery
10.	East Lynne
11.	Little Annie Rooney
12.	The Lucky Devil
13.	The Unholy Three
14.	The Everlasting Whisper

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
• 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,
• July – Jacques Bizeul, French cinematographer
• July 29 – Mark Fenton, American character actor
• September 2 – American actor William Riley Hatch
• 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
• 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