Events in Film & TV
- Jan 7 Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in NYC
- Apr 21 Noël Coward's "Fallen Angels" premieres in London
- Jun 13 Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)
- Jun 26 "The gold rush", directed, starring and written by Charlie Chaplin, is released
- Jun 30 Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television)
- Dec 7 Noël Coward's "Easy Virtue" premieres in NYC
- Dec 21 "Battleship Potemkin", Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov, premieres in Moscow
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- Jan 28 Actress Gloria Swanson (25) weds aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (26) in Paris, France
- Feb 7 Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (29) weds actress Estelle Taylor (30)
- Apr 23 Film producer Samuel Goldwyn (42) weds actress Frances Howard (21)
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Actors and Actresses Who Died in 1925
- Mar 13 Lucille Ricksen [Ingeborg Ericksen], American silent-film actress, dies of tuberculosis 14
- Apr 28 Louis Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare), dies at 82
- May 19 Viking Eggeling, Swedish artist/filmmaker (Symphonie Diagonale) dies at 44
- Jun 1 Lucien Guitry, French actor (La Dame aux camélias), dies at 64
- Aug 5 Jennie Lee, American actress (The Birth of a Nation), dies at 76
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