1958 in film
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The year 1958 in film involved some significant events.
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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 (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | South Pacific | Magna/20th Century Fox | $17,500,000 |
| 2. | Auntie Mame | Warner Brothers | $9,300,000 |
| 3. | Cat on the Hot Tin Roof | MGM | $8,785,000 |
| 4. | No Time For Sergeants | Warner Brothers | $7,500,000 |
| 5. | Gigi | MGM | $7,321,000 |
| 6. | The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad | Columbia | $6,500,000 |
| 7. | The Vikings | 20th Century Fox | $6,283,000 |
| 8. | Vertigo* | Paramount/Universal | $5,306,000 |
| 9. | The Young Lions | 20th Century Fox | $4,480,000 |
| 10. | Some Came Running | MGM | $4,442,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1958.shtml
[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
Palme 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
- Andy Hardy Comes Home
- 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
- 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
- King Creole
- Lafayette Escadrille, WWI film starring Tab Hunter, with an early appearance by Clint Eastwood
- Lonelyhearts
- 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
- 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
- Some Came Running
- South Pacific
- Teacher's Pet
- tom thumb
- Torpedo Run
- Touch of Evil
- Vertigo
- The Vikings
- White Wilderness, a Disney nature film
- The Young Lions
[edit] 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)
[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 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
[edit] 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
