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Overview of the events of 1925 in film
The following is an overview of 1925 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Events
June 26: Charlie Chaplin 's The Gold Rush premieres. It is voted the best film of the year by critics in The Film Daily annual poll[1]
September 25: Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens.
November 5: The Big Parade holds its Grand Premiere
December 30: Première of Ben-Hur , the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around $68 million when adjusted for inflation)[2]
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.[3] Hong also directs his first film, Young Master Feng , at Mingxing (Star) Film Company in this year.
Top-grossing films (Worldwide)
Rank
Title
Gross
1.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
$9,386,000[4]
2.
The Big Parade
$6,131,000[4] [5]
3.
The Gold Rush
$5,450,000
4.
His People
$3,000,000
5.
The Freshman
$2,600,000[6]
6.
The Phantom of the Opera
$2,000,000
7.
The Merry Widow
$1,933,000[4]
8.
Stella Dallas
$1,500,000[6]
9.
The Lost World
$1,300,000[6]
10.
Little Annie Rooney
$1,100,000
11.
East Lynne
$1,100,000[6]
12.
The Plastic Age
n/a
Notable films released in 1925
U.S.A. unless stated
Are Parents People? , starring Florence Vidor
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 ; starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
The Blackguard (Die Prinzessin und der Geiger), directed by Graham Cutts – (GB /Germany )
Braveheart , starring Rod La Rocque
Bride of Glomdal (Glomdalsbruden), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark )
Bulldog Drummond's Third Round , starring Jack Buchanan – (GB )
Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka) – (U.S.S.R. )
The Circle , directed by Frank Borzage ; starring Eleanor Boardman
Cobra , starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi
Corazón Aymara , directed by Pedro Sambarino; first Bolivian fiction feature film
Curses! , starring Fatty Arbuckle
The Dark Angel , directed by George Fitzmaurice ; 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
Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge), directed by René Clair – (France )
The Farmer from Texas , directed by Joe May , starring Lillian Hall-Davis (Germany)
Feu Mathias Pascal (The Late Mathias Pascal), directed by Marcel L'Herbier – (France )
Fifty-Fifty , starring Hope Hampton , Lionel Barrymore and Louise Glaum
The Freshman , starring Harold Lloyd
Go West , starring Buster Keaton
The Gold Rush , a Charlie Chaplin film
The Goose Woman , directed by Clarence Brown ; starring Louise Dresser
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life , directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
The Heart Breaker
His People , starring Rudolph Schildkraut
His Supreme Moment directed by Marshall Neilan ; 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 , directed by Leo McCarey
Jealousy , directed by Karl Grune (Germany)
Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse), directed by G.W. Pabst , starring Greta Garbo – (Germany )
The King on Main Street , directed by Monta Bell ; starring Bessie Love & Adolphe Menjou
A Kiss For Cinderella , starring Esther Ralston and Dorothy Cumming
The Lady , starring Norma Talmadge
Lady Windermere's Fan , directed by Ernst Lubitsch , starring Ronald Colman and May McAvoy
Lights of Old Broadway , directed by Monta Bell ; starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel
Little Annie Rooney , starring Mary Pickford
The Lost World , starring Bessie Love and Wallace Beery
The Lucky Horseshoe , starring Tom Mix and Billie Dove
Madame Behave , starring Julian Eltinge and Ann Pennington
Madame Sans-Gene , starring Gloria Swanson – (France )
Master of the House (Du skal ære din hustru) (aka Thou Shalt Honour Thy Wife), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (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 , directed by Tod Browning ; starring Aileen Pringle
Old Clothes
Orochi – (Japan )
Paris Qui Dort , directed by René Clair – (France )
Phantom of the Opera , starring Lon Chaney , Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry
The Plastic Age – directed by Wesley Ruggles , starring Clara Bow and Gilbert Roland ; Clark Gable was also in this film
The Pleasure Garden , directed by Alfred Hitchcock , starring Virginia Valli and Carmelita Geraghty – (GB )
Prem Sanyas (Die Leuchte Asiens | The Light of Asia) – (Germany /India )
Pretty Ladies , directed by Monta Bell
Proud Flesh , directed by King Vidor
Quo Vadis , starring Emil Jannings – (Italy )
The Rag Man , directed by Edward F. Cline , starring Jackie Coogan
The Rat , starring Ivor Novello , Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans – (GB )
Red Heels (Das Spielzeug von Paris), directed by 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 , directed by D.W. Griffith ; starring Carol Dempster and W. C. Fields
Seven Chances , a Buster Keaton film
She , starring Betty Blythe – (GB /Germany )
Smouldering Fires directed by Clarence Brown ; starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante
Stella Dallas , starring Ronald Colman and Belle Bennett
The Street of Forgotten Men
Strike (Stachka), directed by Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R. )
The Swan directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki ; starring Frances Howard , Adolphe Menjou and Ricardo Cortez
The Tailor from Torzhok (Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka) – (U.S.S.R. )
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
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 )
Variety (Variete) (Jealousy), starring Emil Jannings – (Germany )
Wizard of Oz , starring Dorothy Dwan
Wolf Blood
Womanhandled , starring Richard Dix and Esther Ralston
A Woman of the World , starring Pola Negri
Zander the Great , directed by George W. Hill ; starring Marion Davies and Harrison Ford
Comedy film series
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 , Peruvian-born director and producer (died 1995)
January 9 – Lee Van Cleef , American actor (died 1989)
January 13 – Gwen Verdon , American actress and dancer (died 2000)
January 26
January 30 – Dorothy Malone , American actress (died 2018)
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 18 – Bob Hastings , American actor (died 2014)
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 (died 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 (died 2017)
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 6 – Ruth Cracknell , Australian actress (died 2002)
July 13 – Huang Zongying , Chinese actress and scriptwriter
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 22 – Honor Blackman , English actress
August 23 – Robert Mulligan , American director (died 2008)
September 8 – Peter Sellers , English comedian and actor (died 1980)
September 12 – Dickie Moore , American actor (died 2015)
September 21 – Noor Jehan , Indian actress (died 2000)
October 3 – Gore Vidal , American writer and actor (died 2012)
October 5 – Gail Davis , American actress (died 1997)
October 11 - Nancy Guild , American actress (died 1999 )
October 16
October 29 - Robert Hardy , English actor (died 2017)
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 and actor (died 1990)
December 12 – Anne V. Coates , English film editor (died 2018)
December 13 – Dick Van Dyke , American actor
December 18 – Peggy Cummins , Welsh-born Irish actress (died 2017)
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 21 - Orme Caldara , American stage and film actor (born 1875)
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 9 - Harry Rattenberry , American actor (born 1857)
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
^ The Ten Best Pictures of 1925 . Retrieved April 28, 2018 .
^ Hall, Sheldon; Neale, Stephen (2010). Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history . Wayne State University Press . p. 163 . ISBN 978-0-8143-3008-1 .
^ Ye, Tan; Zhu, Yun (2012). Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8108-6779-6 .
^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
^ Hall, Sheldon; Neale, Stephen (2010). Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history . Wayne State University Press . ISBN 978-0-8143-3008-1 . Even then, at a time when the budget for a feature averaged at around $300,000, no more than $382,000 was spent on production...According to the Eddie Mannix Ledger at MGM, it grossed $4,990,000 domestically and $1,141,000 abroad.
^ a b c d "The All Time Best Sellers" . International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 . Quigley Publishing Company . p. 942. Retrieved April 8, 2018 .