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

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