1925 in film
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The following is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)[]
The top ten 1925 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Studio | Box office gross rental |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Big Parade | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $4,990,000[1] |
| 2 | The Freshman | Pathé Exchange | $2,600,000[2] |
| 3 | The Gold Rush | United Artists | $2,500,000[2] |
| 4 | The Phantom of the Opera | Universal Pictures | $1,550,000[3] |
| 5 | Stella Dallas | United Artists | $1,500,000[2] |
| 6 | The Lost World Don Q, Son of Zorro |
First National Pictures United Artists |
$1,300,000[2][3] |
| 7 | Little Annie Rooney | United Artists | $1,200,000[3] |
| 8 | The Merry Widow East Lynne Madame Sans-Gêne |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Fox Film Corporation Universal Pictures |
$1,100,000[4][2][3] |
| 9 | The Unholy Three | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $704,000[1] |
| 10 | The Great Divide | $674,000[1] |
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[5]
- September 25: Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens.
- November 5: MGM's war drama film The Big Parade is released. It is a massive commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing picture of the 1920s in the United States.
- December 30: MGM's biblical epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around $58 million when adjusted for inflation)[6]
- 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.[7] Hong also directs his first film, Young Master Feng, at Mingxing (Star) Film Company in this year.
Notable films released in 1925[]
For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1925
A[]
- Ang Pagtitipid, directed by Jose Nepomuceno, starring Armando Crisostomo - Philippines
- Are Parents People?, starring Florence Vidor
- The Battleship Potemkin (Bronyenosyets Potyomkin), directed by Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R.)
B[]
- 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
- Bulldog Drummond's Third Round, starring Jack Buchanan – (GB)
C[]
- Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Chronicles of the Gray House, directed by Arthur von Gerlach and starring Lil Dagover (Germany)
- 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
D[]
- 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
E[]
- The Eagle, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky
- Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge), directed by René Clair – (France)
F[]
- 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
G[]
- 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
H[]
- 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)
I[]
- Isn't Life Terrible, directed by Leo McCarey
J[]
- Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse), directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Greta Garbo – (Germany)
K[]
- The King on Main Street, directed by Monta Bell; starring Bessie Love & Adolphe Menjou
- A Kiss For Cinderella, starring Esther Ralston and Dorothy Cumming
L[]
- The Lady, starring Norma Talmadge
- Lady of the Night, directed by Monta Bell and starring Norma Shearer
- Lazybones, directed by Frank Borzage
- 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
- Lovers in Quarantine, directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bebe Daniels and Harrison Ford
- The Lucky Horseshoe, starring Tom Mix and Billie Dove
M[]
- Madame Behave, starring Julian Eltinge and Ann Pennington
- Madame Sans-Gene, starring Gloria Swanson
- 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
- Miracles of Love, directed by Vicente Salumbides, starring Juanita Angeles, Jose Carvajal, Dimples Cooper - Philippines[8]
- Les Misérables – (France)
- The Monster, starring Lon Chaney
- The Mystic, directed by Tod Browning; starring Aileen Pringle
O[]
- Old Clothes
- Orochi – (Japan)
P[]
- Pampered Youth, directed by David Smith
- The 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
R[]
- The Rag Man, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan
- The Rat, starring Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans – (GB)
- The Red Head (Poil de carotte), directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Henry Krauss (France)
- The Road to Yesterday, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Joseph Schildkraut
S[]
- 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
T[]
- 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)
U[]
- The Unholy Three, starring Lon Chaney
V[]
- 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), directed by Karl Grune, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
W[]
- Wizard of Oz, starring Dorothy Dwan
- Wolf Blood
- Womanhandled, starring Richard Dix and Esther Ralston
- A Woman of the World, starring Pola Negri
Z[]
- Zander the Great, directed by George W. Hill; starring Marion Davies and Harrison Edward Ford[9]
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, American actress and dancer (died 2000)
- January 21 - Charles Aidman, American actor (died 1993)
- January 26
- Joan Leslie, American actress (died 2015)
- Paul Newman, American actor (died 2008)
- January 30 – Dorothy Malone, American actress (died 2018)
- February 2 – Elaine Stritch, American actress (died 2014)
- February 3 - John Fiedler, American actor and voice actor (died 2005)
- February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (died 2001)
- February 11 – Kim Stanley, American actress (died 2001)
- February 17
- Ron Goodwin, English film composer (died 2003)
- Hal Holbrook, American actor (died 2021)
- 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)
- March 13 - Corrado Gaipa, Italian actor and voice actor (died 1989)
- 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)
- April 28 - Bruce Kirby (actor), American character actor (died 2021)
- 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 yachting 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
- Virginia Patton, American former actress
- June 29 – Cara Williams, American actress (died 2021)
- July 1 – Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011)
- July 6 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (died 2002)
- July 13 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and scriptwriter (died 2020)
- July 15 – D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (died 2019)
- July 23 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress (died 2016)
- August 11 – Arlene Dahl, American actress (died 2021)
- August 15 – Mike Connors, American actor (died 2017)
- August 22 – Honor Blackman, English actress (died 2020)
- August 23 – Robert Mulligan, American director (died 2008)
- September 2 - Ronnie Stevens (actor), English character actor and voice artist (died 2006)
- 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
- Angela Lansbury, English-American actress
- Lenka Peterson, American actress (died 2021)
- October 29 – Robert Hardy, English actor (died 2017)
- November 4 – Doris Roberts, American actress (died 2016)
- November 6 - Michel Bouquet, French actor
- November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (died 1984)
- November 11 - Jonathan Winters, American comedian, actor, author, television host and artist (died 2013)
- November 17 – Rock Hudson, American actor (died 1985)
- November 22 - Carla Balenda, American former actress
- November 25 – June Whitfield, English comic actress (died 2018)
- 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 23 - Harry Guardino, American actor (died 1995)
- December 28 – Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (died 2002)
Deaths[]
- January 24 - Wilton Taylor, American actor, (born 1869)
- 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 24 - James O. Barrows, American stage and screen actor, (born 1855)
- December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards American director (born 1867)
Film debuts[]
- Walter Brennan – Webs of Steel
- Gary Cooper – Dick Turpin
- Joan Crawford – Lady of the Night
- Stepin Fetchit – The Mysterious Stranger
- Phillips Holmes – Her Market Value
- Myrna Loy – What Price Beauty?
- Tim McCoy – The Thundering Herd
- Anita Page – A Kiss for Cinderella
- Dolores del Río – Joanna
- Gilbert Roland – The Plastic Age
References[]
- ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ a b c d e Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
- ^ a b c d "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990. p. M150.
- ^ Block & Wilson 2010, p. 75
- ^ The Ten Best Pictures of 1925. The Film Daily Year Book 1926. 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.
- ^ "Miracles of Love (1925)". imdb.com.
- ^ IMDB.com
Sources[]
- Block, Alex Ben; Wilson, Lucy Autrey, eds. (2010). George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-177889-6.
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