1958 in film
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Peyton Place
- Sayonara
- No Time for Sergeants
- The Vikings
- The Search for Paradise
- South Pacific
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
[edit] 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
- 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
PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, 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
[edit] Films released in 1958
- Les Amants de Montparnasse
- Attack of the Puppet People
- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
- Auntie Mame -(film mentioned in article)
- The Big Country
- The Black Orchid
- The Blob
- Bonjour tristesse
- The Bonnie Parker Story
- Carve Her Name with Pride
- El Castillo de los Monstruos
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- The Defiant Ones
- The Fly
- The Geisha Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
- Gigi
- God's Little Acre
- The Horse's Mouth
- The Hunters
- Indiscreet
- In the Money
- I Want to Live!
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
- Jalsaghar
- King Creole
- Le Fatiche di Ercole (The Labors of Hercules)
- The Long, Hot Summer
- Man of the West
- Me and the Colonel
- Merry Andrew
- Mon Oncle
- The Naked Maja
- No Time for Sergeants -(film mentioned in article)
- The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho) (aka The Rikisha-Man)
- Ride a Crooked Trail
- Rock-A-Bye Baby, starring Jerry Lewis
- Separate Tables
- The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
- The Sheepman, starring Glenn Ford and Shirley MacLaine
- South Pacific -(sugg. split of musical/film)
- Touch of Evil
- Vertigo
- The Vikings
[edit] Short film series
Ending this year
- Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)
[edit] 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 Benning, 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, Mrs Tom Hanks
- November 17 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, US actress
- December 6 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Edna Purviance, actress
- January 13 - Jesse L. Lasky, film producer