1925 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Films released in 1925 4 Short film series 5 Animated short film series 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Top grossing films

1. The Gold Rush
2. Ben-Hur
3. His People
4. The Unholy Three
5. The Freshman

[edit] Films released in 1925

• The Battleship Potemkin
• Ben-Hur, starring Ramon Novarro.
• The Big Parade, directed by King Vidor and starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée.
• Braveheart, starring Rod La Rocque.
• Don Q, Son of Zorro
• The Eagle, starring Rudolph Valentino.
• The Freshman, starring Harold Lloyd
• General Nogi and Kumasan (Nogi taisho to Kumasan)
• Go West, starring Buster Keaton.
• The Gold Rush, a Charlie Chaplin film.
• The Heart Breaker
• His People
• Joyless Street
• The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle), starring Bessie Love and Wallace Beery. -(film mentioned in article)
• The Merry Widow (films), starring Mae Murray; directed by Erich von Stroheim. -(film mentioned in article)
• The Monster, starring Lon Chaney.
• Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, and Norman Kerry.
• The Plastic Age - directed by Wesley Ruggles, screen-written by Frederica Sagor Maas, starring Clara Bow (her debut) and Gilbert Roland; Clark Gable was also in this film.
• The Pleasure Garden, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli
• The Street of Forgotten Men
• Street Sketches (Gaijo no suketchi)
• Strike
• Thou Shalt Honor Thy Wife, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Tumbleweeds, starring William S. Hart.
• Under the Crimson Sunset (Akai yuhi ni terasarete)
• The Unholy Three, starring Lon Chaney.
• The White Lily Laments (Shirayuri wa nageku)
• The Wizard of Oz, starring Dorothy Dwan.
• Wolf Blood

[edit] Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
• Koko the Clown (1919-1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1934)
• Ko-Ko's Song Car Tunes (1924-1927)

[edit] Births

• January 6 - Enrique Carreras , film director, producer
• January 9 - Lee Van Cleef, actor
• January 13 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer († 2000)
• January 26 - Paul Newman, actor
• January 30 - Dorothy Malone, actress
• February 8 - Jack Lemmon, actor
• February 11 - Kim Stanley, actress.
• February 17 - Hal Holbrook, actor
• February 18 - George Kennedy, actor
• February 20 - Robert Altman, director
• February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, director
• April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor
• April 19 - Hugh O'Brian, actor
• June 3 - Tony Curtis, actor
• June 21 - Maureen Stapleton, actress
• July 1 - Farley Granger, actor
• July 20 - Lola Albright, actress
• August 23 - Robert Mulligan, director
• September 8 - Peter Sellers, comedian, actor
• September 9 - Cliff Robertson, actor
• October 3 - Gore Vidal, writer, actor
• October 5 - Gail Davis, actress
• October 16 - Angela Lansbury, actress
• November 10 - Richard Burton, prolific stage and screen actor
• November 17 - Rock Hudson, actor
• December 8 - Sammy Davis Jr., singer, dancer, musician, actor
• December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, actor
• December 28 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer

[edit] Deaths

• March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress
• October 31 – Max Linder, French comedic actor