The year 1958 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• February 16- "In the Money" by William Beaudine is released on this date. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began back in 1946.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1958.shtml

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Gigi - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Best Director: Vincente Minnelli - Gigi

Best Actor: David Niven - Separate Tables

Best Actress: Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!

Best Supporting Actor: Burl Ives - The Big Country

Best Supporting Actress: Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables

Best Foreign Language Film: Mon Oncle (My Uncle), directed by Jacques Tati, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Defiant Ones

Best Actor: David Niven - Separate Tables

Best Actress: Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Gigi

Best Actor: Danny Kaye - Me and the Colonel

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame

Other

Best Director: Vincente Minnelli - Gigi

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Cranes Are Flying (????? ???????, Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili, Soviet Union

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho), directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden

Films released in 1958

• Les Amants de Montparnasse
• Andy Hardy Comes Home
• Attack of the Puppet People
• Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
• Auntie Mame (film)
• The Big Country
• The Black Orchid
• The Blob
• Bonjour Tristesse
• The Bonnie Parker Story
• The Brothers Karamazov
• The Buccaneer
• Carve Her Name with Pride
• El Castillo de los Monstruos
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Cowboy
• Damn Yankees
• The Defiant Ones
• Desire Under the Elms
• The Horror of Dracula
• Le Fatiche di Ercole (The Labors of Hercules)
• The Fly
• The Geisha Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
• Gigi
• God's Little Acre
• The Goddess starring Kim Stanley
• The Horse's Mouth
• Houseboat
• The Hunters
• Indiscreet
• In the Money
• I Want to Live!
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Jalsaghar
• The Key, based on Jan de Hartog novel
• King Creole
• Lafayette Escadrille, WWI film starring Tab Hunter, with an early appearance by Clint Eastwood
• Lonelyhearts
• The Light in the Forest
• The Long, Hot Summer
• Man of the West
• Marjorie Morningstar
• Me and the Colonel
• Merry Andrew
• Mon Oncle
• Monster on the Campus
• The Naked Maja
• No Time for Sergeants -(film mentioned in article)
• The Old Man and the Sea - based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, starring Spencer Tracy
• Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
• The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho) (aka The Rikisha-Man)
• Ride a Crooked Trail
• Rock-A-Bye Baby, starring Jerry Lewis
• Run Silent, Run Deep
• Separate Tables
• The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
• The Sheepman, starring Glenn Ford and Shirley MacLaine
• The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
• Some Came Running
• South Pacific
• Teacher's Pet
• The Thing That Couldn't Die
• tom thumb
• Torpedo Run
• Touch of Evil
• Vertigo
• The Vikings
• White Wilderness, a Disney nature film
• The Young Lions

Short film series

• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

Ending this year

• Droopy (1943-1958)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

Births

• February 11 - Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2.
• February 13 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
• March 3 - Miranda Richardson, actress
• March 10 - Sharon Stone, US actress
• March 20 - Holly Hunter, actress
• March 21 - Gary Oldman, actor
• April 3 - Alec Baldwin, actor
• April 21 - Andie MacDowell, actress
• April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer, actress
• May 29 - Annette Bening, US actress (Mrs Warren Beatty)
• July 8 - Kevin Bacon, actor
• August 16 - Angela Bassett, US actress
• August 18 - Madeleine Stowe, actress
• August 24 - Steve Guttenberg, US actor
• August 25 - Tim Burton, director
• October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor
• October 26 - Pascale Ogier, French actress (d. 1984)
• October 26 - Rita Wilson, actress
• November 17 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, US actress
• December 6 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator

Deaths

• January 11 - Edna Purviance, actress
• January 13 - Jesse L. Lasky, film producer
• February 27 - Harry Cohn, Co-Founder of CBS Sales Association (Columbia Pictures)
• April 15 - Estelle Taylor, silent film actress
• May 19 - Ronald Colman, actor

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