1925 in film
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This is a list focusing on motion pictures that were released in the year 1925.
Events
- November 5: The Big Parade holds its Grand Premiere
- December 30: premiere of Ben-Hur, the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4–6 million (around $50–80 million when adjusted for inflation)
- 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] Hong also directs his first film, Young Master Feng, at Mingxing (Star) Film Company in this year.
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 | Harold Lloyd |
| 5. | His People | Rudolph Schildkraut |
| 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 | Alma Rubens and Edmund Lowe |
| 11. | Little Annie Rooney | Mary Pickford and William Haines |
| 12. | The Lucky Devil | Richard Dix |
| 13. | The Unholy Three | Lon Chaney and Victor McLaglen |
| 14. | The Everlasting Whisper | Tom Mix |
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 fantome 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
- 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 Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli – (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
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, 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
- Joan Leslie, American actress (died 2015)
- Paul Newman, American actor (died 2008)
- 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)
- April 14 – Rod Steiger, American actor (died 2002)
- April 19 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (died 2016)
- 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
- July 23 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress (died 2016)
- August 11 – Arlene Dahl, American actress
- August 15 – Mike Connors, American actor
- 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 16 – Angela Lansbury, English-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 (b.1860)
- February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French director
- March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress
- April 8 – Thecla Åhlander, Swedish actress
- April 13 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor
- April 16 – David Powell, Scottish actor
- July 29 – Mark Fenton, American actor
- September 28 - Paul Vermoyal, French actor
- October 31 – Max Linder, French actor
- November 1 – Lester Cuneo American actor
- November 3 – Lucile McVey, American actress
- December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress
- December 21 – Lottie Lyell, Australian director/producer
- December 22 – Mary Thurman, American actress
- December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards American director
Film debuts
References
- ↑ Ye, Tan; Zhu, Yun (2012). Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8108-6779-6.
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