1925 in film

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 4â€"6 million dollars (an astronomical sum when adjusted to inflation)

Top grossing films (U.S.)

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 â€" (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 â€" (GB/Germany)
• Braveheart, starring Rod La Rocque
• Bride of Glomdal (Glomdalsbruden), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer â€" (Denmark)
• Bulldog Drummond's Third Round, starring Jack Buchanan â€" (GB)
• Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka) â€" (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 â€" (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 â€" (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 â€" (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 â€" (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 â€" (France)
• Master of the House (Du skal ære din hustru) (aka Thou Shalt Honour Thy Wife), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer â€" (Denmark)
• Men and Women, starring Richard Dix
• The Merry Widow, directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert
• Les Misérables â€" (France)
• The Monster, starring Lon Chaney
• The Mystic, directed by Tod Browning; starring Aileen Pringle
• Old Clothes
• Orochi â€" (Japan)
• Paris Qui Dort, directed by René Clair â€" (France)
• Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, and Norman Kerry
• The Plastic Age â€" 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 â€" (GB)
• Prem Sanyas (Die Leuchte Asiens | The Light of Asia) â€" (Germany/India)
• Pretty Ladies, directed by Monta Bell
• Proud Flesh, directed by King Vidor
• Quo Vadis, starring Emil Jannings â€" (Italy)
• The Rag Man, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan
• The Rat, starring Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans â€" (GB)
• Red Heels (Das Spielzeug von Paris), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lili Damita â€" (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 â€" (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 â€" (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) â€" (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) â€" (Japan)
• The Unholy Three, starring Lon Chaney
• Visages d'enfants (Faces of Children), directed by Jacques Feyder â€" (France)
• The Whirlpool of Fate (La Fille de l'eau), directed by Jean Renoir â€" (France)
• The White Lily Laments (Shirayuri wa nageku) â€" (Japan)
• Variety (Variete) (Jealousy), starring Emil Jannings â€" (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 (1914â€"1940)
• Harold Lloyd (1913â€"1938)
• Lupino Lane (1915â€"1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917â€"1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921â€"1943)
• Our Gang (1922â€"1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924â€"1936)

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919â€"1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919â€"1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921â€"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 (1924â€"1927)
• Krazy Kat (1925â€"1940)
• Un-Natural History (1925â€"1927)

Births

• January 6 â€" Enrique Carreras, film director, producer (died 1995)
• January 9 â€" Lee Van Cleef, actor (died 1989)
• January 13 â€" Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (died 2000)
• January 26
  • Joan Leslie, actress
  • Paul Newman, actor (died 2008)
• January 30 â€" Dorothy Malone, actress
• February 2 â€" Elaine Stritch, actress (died 2014)
• February 8 â€" Jack Lemmon, actor (died 2001)
• February 11 â€" Kim Stanley, actress (died 2001)
• February 17 â€" Hal Holbrook, actor
• February 18 â€" George Kennedy, actor
• February 20 â€" Robert Altman, director (died 2006)
• February 21 â€" Sam Peckinpah, director (died 1984)
• April 14 â€" Rod Steiger, actor (died 2002)
• April 19 â€" Hugh O'Brian, actor
• June 3 â€" Tony Curtis, actor (died 2010)
• June 16 â€" Otto Muehl, Austrian experimental director (died 2013)
• June 21 â€" Maureen Stapleton, actress (died 2006)
• June 25 â€" June Lockhart, actress
• June 29 â€" Cara Williams, actress
• July 1 â€" Farley Granger, actor (died 2011)
• July 23 â€" Gloria DeHaven, actress
• August 15 â€" Mike Connors, actor
• August 22 â€" Honor Blackman, actress
• August 23 â€" Robert Mulligan, director (died 2008)
• September 8 â€" Peter Sellers, comedian, actor (died 1980)
• September 12 â€" Dickie Moore, actor
• October 3 â€" Gore Vidal, writer, actor (died 2012)
• October 5 â€" Gail Davis, actress (died 1997)
• October 16 â€" Angela Lansbury, actress
• November 4 â€" Doris Roberts, actress
• November 10 â€" Richard Burton, actor (died 1984)
• November 17 â€" Rock Hudson, actor (died 1985)
• November 25 â€" June Whitfield, actress
• December 2 â€" Julie Harris, Broadway and film actress (died 2013)
• December 8 â€" Sammy Davis Jr., singer, dancer, musician, actor (died 1990)
• December 12 â€" Anne V. Coates, British film editor
• December 13 â€" Dick Van Dyke, actor
• December 18 â€" Peggy Cummins, actress
• December 28 â€" Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer (died 2002)

Deaths

• February 7 - Edward Jobson, American actor (b.1860)
• February 25 â€" Louis Feuillade, French film director
• March 13 â€" Lucille Ricksen, American actress
• April 8 â€" Thecla Ã…hlander, Swedish actress
• April 13 â€" Frederik Buch, Danish actor
• April 16 â€" David Powell, Scottish actor
• July 29 â€" Mark Fenton, American actor
• October 31 â€" Max Linder, French actor
• November 1 â€" Lester Cuneo American actor
• November 3 â€" Lucile McVey, American actress
• December 8 â€" Marguerite Marsh, American actress
• December 21 â€" Lottie Lyell, Australian director/producer
• December 22 â€" Mary Thurman, American actress
• December 31 â€" J. Gordon Edwards American film director

Film debuts

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

References