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Overview of the events of 1925 in film
This is a list focusing on motion pictures that were released in the year 1925 .
Events November 5: The Big Parade December 30: Première of Ben-Hur September 25: Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens.Hong Shen publishes the film script Mrs. Shentu in the Shanghai magazine Eastern Miscellany . It is never filmed, but is considered a milestone in film history for being the first published film script in China.[1] Young Master Feng , at Mingxing (Star) Film Company in this year.Top-grossing films (Worldwide)
Rank
Title
Gross
1.
The Big Parade $18–22 million
2.
Ben-Hur $10,700,000
3.
The Gold Rush $5,450,000
4.
His People $3,000,000
5.
The Phantom of the Opera $2,000,000
6.
The Lost World $1,300,000
7.
Little Annie Rooney $1,100,000
8.
East Lynne $1,000,000
9.
The Unholy Three $704,000
10.
The Plastic Age n/a
Notable films released in 1925 U.S.A. unless stated
Are Parents People? Florence Vidor The Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R. )Ben-Hur Fred Niblo , starring Ramón Novarro , Francis X. Bushman and May McAvoy The Big Parade King Vidor ; starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée The Blackguard Graham Cutts – (GB /Germany )Braveheart Rod La Rocque Bride of Glomdal Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark )Bulldog Drummond's Third Round Jack Buchanan – (GB )Chess Fever U.S.S.R. )The Circle Frank Borzage ; starring Eleanor Boardman Cobra Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi Corazón Aymara Pedro Sambarino ; first Bolivian fiction feature filmCurses! Fatty Arbuckle The Dark Angel George Fitzmaurice ; starring Vilma Bánky and Ronald Colman Don Q, Son of Zorro Douglas Fairbanks , Mary Astor and Donald Crisp The Eagle Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge René Clair – (France )The Farmer from Texas Joe May , starring Lillian Hall-Davis (Germany)Feu Mathias Pascal Marcel L'Herbier – (France )Fifty-Fifty Hope Hampton , Lionel Barrymore and Louise Glaum The Freshman Harold Lloyd Go West Buster Keaton The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin filmThe Goose Woman Clarence Brown ; starring Louise Dresser Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack The Heart Breaker His People Rudolph Schildkraut His Supreme Moment Marshall Neilan ; starring his wife Blanche Sweet with Ronald Colman El Húsar de la muerte Pedro Sienna – (Chile )Isn't Life Terrible Leo McCarey Jealousy Karl Grune (Germany)Joyless Street G.W. Pabst , starring Greta Garbo – (Germany )The King on Main Street Monta Bell ; starring Bessie Love & Adolphe Menjou A Kiss For Cinderella Esther Ralston and Dorothy Cumming The Lady Norma Talmadge Lady Windermere's Fan Ernst Lubitsch , starring Ronald Colman and May McAvoy Lights of Old Broadway Monta Bell ; starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel Little Annie Rooney Mary Pickford The Lost World Bessie Love and Wallace Beery The Lucky Horseshoe Tom Mix and Billie Dove Madame Behave Julian Eltinge and Ann Pennington Madame Sans-Gene Gloria Swanson – (France )Master of the House Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark )Men and Women Richard Dix The Merry Widow Erich von Stroheim , starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert Les Misérables France )The Monster Lon Chaney The Mystic Tod Browning ; starring Aileen Pringle Old Clothes Orochi Japan )Paris Qui Dort René Clair – (France )Phantom of the Opera Lon Chaney , Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry The Plastic Age Wesley Ruggles , starring Clara Bow and Gilbert Roland ; Clark Gable was also in this filmThe Pleasure Garden Alfred Hitchcock , starring Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli – (GB )Prem Sanyas Germany /India )Pretty Ladies Monta Bell Proud Flesh King Vidor Quo Vadis Emil Jannings – (Italy )The Rag Man Edward F. Cline , starring Jackie Coogan The Rat Ivor Novello , Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans – (GB )Red Heels Michael Curtiz , starring Lili Damita – (Austria )Sally, Irene and Mary directed by Edmund Goulding ; starring Constance Bennett , Joan Crawford & Sally O'Neil Sally of the Sawdust D.W. Griffith ; starring Carol Dempster and W. C. Fields Seven Chances Buster Keaton filmShe Betty Blythe – (GB /Germany )Smouldering Fires directed by Clarence Brown ; starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante Stella Dallas Ronald Colman and Belle Bennett The Street of Forgotten Men Strike Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R. )The Swan Dimitri Buchowetzki ; starring Frances Howard , Adolphe Menjou and Ricardo Cortez The Tailor from Torzhok U.S.S.R. )Three Weeks in Paris , starring Matt Moore Too Many Kisses Paul Sloane Tumbleweeds William S. Hart Under the Crimson Sunset Akai yuhi ni terasarete Japan )The Unholy Three Lon Chaney Visages d'enfants Jacques Feyder – (France )The Whirlpool of Fate Jean Renoir – (France )The White Lily Laments Shirayuri wa nageku Japan )Variety Emil Jannings – (Germany )Wizard of Oz Dorothy Dwan Wolf Blood Womanhandled Richard Dix and Esther Ralston A Woman of the World Pola Negri Zander the Great George W. Hill ; starring Marion Davies and Harrison Ford Comedy film series Animated short film series Births January 6 – Enrique Carreras , Peruvian-born director and producer (died 1995)
January 9 – Lee Van Cleef , American actor (died 1989)
January 13 – Gwen Verdon , actress, dancer (died 2000)
January 26
January 30 – Dorothy Malone , American actress
February 2 – Elaine Stritch , American actress (died 2014)
February 8 – Jack Lemmon , American actor (died 2001)
February 11 – Kim Stanley , American actress (died 2001)
February 17 – Hal Holbrook , American actor
February 18 – George Kennedy , American actor (died 2016)
February 20 – Robert Altman , American director (died 2006)
February 21 – Sam Peckinpah , American director (died 1984)
February 25 - Aino Seep , Estonian singer and actress (died 1982)
April 14 – Rod Steiger , American actor (died 2002)
April 19 – Hugh O'Brian , American actor (died 2016)
May 2 - John Neville , English-Canadian actor (died 2011)
May 25 - Jeanne Crain , American actress (died 2003)
May 26 - Alec McCowen , English actor (d 2017)
June 3 – Tony Curtis , American actor (died 2010)
June 7 – John Biddle , American sailor and cinematographer (died 2008)
June 8 – Charles Tyner , American actor
June 16 – Otto Muehl , Austrian experimental director (died 2013)
June 21 – Maureen Stapleton , American actress (died 2006)
June 25 – June Lockhart , American actress
June 29 – Cara Williams , American actress
July 1 – Farley Granger , American actor (died 2011)
July 20 – Lola Albright , American actress (died 2017)
July 23 – Gloria DeHaven , American actress (died 2016)
August 11 – Arlene Dahl , American actress
August 15 – Mike Connors , American actor (died 2017)
August 23 – Robert Mulligan , American director (died 2008)
August 25 – Honor Blackman , English actress
September 8 – Peter Sellers , English comedian, actor (died 1980)
September 12 – Dickie Moore , American actor (died 2015)
October 3 – Gore Vidal , American writer, actor (died 2012)
October 5 – Gail Davis , American actress (died 1997)
October 11 - Nancy Guild , American actress (died 1999 )
October 16 – Angela Lansbury , English-American actress
October 16 - Lenka Peterson , American actress
November 4 – Doris Roberts , American actress (died 2016)
November 10 – Richard Burton , Welsh actor (died 1984)
November 17 – Rock Hudson , American actor (died 1985)
November 25 – June Whitfield , English actress
December 2 – Julie Harris , American Broadway and film actress (died 2013)
December 3 - Kaljo Kiisk , Estonian actor and director (died 2007)
December 8 – Sammy Davis Jr. , American singer, dancer, musician, actor (died 1990)
December 12 – Anne V. Coates , English film editor
December 13 – Dick Van Dyke , American actor
December 18 – Peggy Cummins , Welsh-born Irish actress
December 28 – Hildegard Knef , German actress, singer and writer (died 2002) Deaths February 7 - Edward Jobson , American actor (born 1860)
February 25 – Louis Feuillade , French director (born 1873)
March 13 – Lucille Ricksen , American actress (born 1910)
April 8 – Thecla Åhlander , Swedish actress (born 1855)
April 13 – Frederik Buch , Danish actor (born 1875)
April 16 – David Powell , Scottish actor (born 1883)
July 29 – Mark Fenton , American actor (born 1866)
September 28 - Paul Vermoyal , French actor (born 1888)
October 31 – Max Linder , French actor (born 1883)
November 1 – Lester Cuneo American actor (born 1888)
November 3 – Lucile McVey , American actress (born 1890)
December 8 – Marguerite Marsh , American actress (born 1888)
December 21 – Lottie Lyell , Australian director/producer (born 1890)
December 22 – Mary Thurman , American actress (born 1895)
December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards American director (born 1867) Film debuts References
