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This is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1925 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1925
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 The Big Parade MGM $4,990,000 [1]
2 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ $4,359,000 [1]
3 The Freshman Pathé Exchange $2,600,000 [2]
4 The Gold Rush United Artists $2,150,000 [3]
5 The Phantom of the Opera Universal $1,550,000 [4]
6 Don Q, Son of Zorro
Stella Dallas
United Artists$1,500,000 [5] [2]
7 The Lost World First National $1,300,000 [2]
8 East Lynne
Little Annie Rooney
Fox Film
United Artists
$1,100,000 [2] [6]
9 The Merry Widow MGM$1,081,000 [1]
10 The Eagle United Artists$820,000 [7]

Events

Notable films released in 1925

For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1925

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Comedy film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Film debuts

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp.  356–357. ISBN   978-1-903364-66-6.
  3. Maland, Charles J. (1989). Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image. ISBN   0-691-09440-3. The United Artists balance sheet of domestic film rentals through the end of 1931 show that The Gold Rush had accumulated $2.15 million in rentals, while The Circus had garnered $1.82 million.
  4. "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety . October 15, 1990. p. M154.
  5. Krämer, Peter (2019). The General. Bloomsbury. ISBN   978-1-8387-1889-3. In addition, the strongly comedy-inflected, spectacular adventure films starring Fairbanks, who was known for his onscreen acrobatics (as well as his infectious smile), ranked highly in the annual charts – The Thief of Bagdad at no. 3 in 1924, Don Q, Son of Zorro at no. 4 in 1925 and The Black Pirate at no. 4 in 1926 – with domestic rentals of between $1.5 million and $1.7 million.
  6. Eyman, Scott (1990). Mary Pickford, America's Sweetheart. ISBN   1-55611-147-9. Little Annie Rooney grossed over $1.1 million domestically. In its premiere run in New York, it grossed a total of just over $70,000 at the 2,900 seat Strand Theater, compared to $78,000 for Douglas's Don Son of 'Zorro, which also ran two weeks that same year. (The record run for 1925 at the Strand was Chaplin's The Gold Rush, which grossed $214,700 in just four weeks.)
  7. Movie Box Office Grosses: 1925 through 1931
  8. The Ten Best Pictures of 1925 . Retrieved April 28, 2018.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  9. Hall, Sheldon; Neale, Stephen (2010). Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history. Wayne State University Press. p.  163. ISBN   978-0-8143-3008-1.
  10. Ye, Tan; Zhu, Yun (2012). Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 76. ISBN   978-0-8108-6779-6.
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  21. Yorke, Peter (2007). William Haggar (1851-1925): fairground film-maker. Bedlinog: Accent Press. p. 114. ISBN   978-1-905170-87-6. Archived from the original on 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2021-09-12.

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