1958 in film
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.
- The second instalment of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible is officially released, having previously been shelved for political reasons. It would be the last of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible trilogy as the director died during production on part III.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Actors |
Gross |
| 1. |
South Pacific |
Magna/20th Century Fox |
Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi |
$17,500,000 |
| 2. |
Auntie Mame |
Warner Brothers |
Rosalind Russell |
$9,300,000 |
| 3. |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
MGM |
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman |
$8,785,000 |
| 4. |
No Time for Sergeants |
Warner Brothers |
Andy Griffith |
$7,500,000 |
| 5. |
Gigi |
MGM |
Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier |
$7,321,000 |
| 6. |
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad |
Columbia |
Kerwin Mathews |
$6,500,000 |
| 7. |
The Vikings |
20th Century Fox |
Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh |
$6,283,000 |
| 8. |
Vertigo |
Paramount/Universal |
James Stewart and Kim Novak |
$5,306,000 |
| 9. |
The Young Lions |
20th Century Fox |
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin |
$4,480,000 |
| 10. |
Some Came Running |
MGM |
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine |
$4,442,000 |
| 11. |
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw |
20th Century Fox |
Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, and Bruce Cabot |
$4,410,000 |
| 12. |
Separate Tables |
United Artists |
Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven |
$4,350,000 |
| 13. |
Bell, Book and Candle |
Columbia |
Kim Novak, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon |
$4,000,000 |
| 14. |
High School Confidential |
MGM |
Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, Mamie Van Doren |
$3,997,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
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 (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
Films released in 1958
U.S.A. unless stated
A
B
- The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama Bushiko) - (Japan)
- Le Beau Serge, directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)
- Bell, Book and Candle, starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
- The Big Country, starring Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Burl Ives
- Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti), starring Vittorio Gassman, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
- The Black Orchid
- The Blob, starring Steve McQueen
- Bonjour Tristesse, starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Jean Seberg
- The Bonnie Parker Story
- The Bravados, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins
- Brink of Life, directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
- The Brothers Karamazov, starring Yul Brynner
- The Buccaneer, starring Yul Brynner
- Buchanan Rides Alone, starring Randolph Scott and Craig Stevens
C
- Carry On Sergeant, the first in the Carry On film series, directed by Gerald Thomas, starring William Hartnell, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor - (U.K.)
- Carve Her Name with Pride, starring Virginia McKenna and Paul Schofield - (U.K.)
- The Castle of the Monsters (El Castillo de los Monstruos) - (Mexico)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
- Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi - (India)
- Cowboy, starring Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon
- The Cry Baby Killer featuring Jack Nicholson in his film debut
D-F
- Damn Yankees, starring Tab Hunter and Gwen Verdon
- The Defiant Ones, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier
- Desire Under the Elms, starring Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives
- The Doctor's Dilemma, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Dirk Bogarde (U.K.)
- Dunkirk, starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
- Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud), directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau - (France)
- Equinox Flower (Higanbana), directed by Yasujiro Ozu - (Japan)
- The Fabulous World of Jules Verne - (Czechoslovakia)
- The Fly, starring Vincent Price
- From the Earth to the Moon
G-H
- The Geisha Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
- Giants and Toys (巨人と玩具) - (Japan)
- Gigi, directed by Vincente Minelli, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
- Girl on the Run
- God's Little Acre, starring Robert Ryan and Tina Louise
- The Goddess, starring Kim Stanley
- Goha, starring Omar Sharif - (France/Tunisia)
- H8 - (Yugoslavia)
- The H-Man, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
- Hercules (Le fatiche di Ercole), starring Steve Reeves - (Italy)
- The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi toride no san akunin), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
- High School Confidential, starring Russ Tamblyn and Mamie Van Doren
- The Horror of Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
- The Horse's Mouth, starring Alec Guinness - (U.K.)
- Houseboat, starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren
- The Hunters, starring Robert Mitchum
I-K
- I Accuse!, directed by and starring José Ferrer - (U.K.)
- I Want to Live!, starring Susan Hayward (winner of Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress)
- Ice Cold in Alex, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring John Mills and Sylvia Sims - (U.K.)
- In Case of Adversity (En Cas de Malheur), starring Jean Gabin and Brigitte Bardot - (France)
- In the Money
- Indiscreet, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman - (U.K.)
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman
- The Iron Gate (Bab el Hadid), directed by Youssef Chahine - (Egypt)
- Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (Ivan Grozniy), directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolai Cherkasov - (U.S.S.R.)
- Jalsaghar (The Music Room), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
- Kala Pani, starring Dev Anand and Madhubala - (India)
- The Key, based on Jan de Hartog novel - (U.K.)
- King Creole, starring Elvis Presley, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Walter Matthau
L
- Lafayette Escadrille, World War I film starring Tab Hunter, with an early appearance by Clint Eastwood
- The Last Hurrah, starring Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Basil Rathbone
- The Left Handed Gun, starring Paul Newman
- The Light in the Forest
- The Lineup, starring Eli Wallach
- Lonelyhearts, starring Montgomery Clift
- The Long, Hot Summer, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles
- The Lovers (Les amants), directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Alain Cuny - (France)
- The Lovers of Montparnasse (Les Amants de Montparnasse) - (France)
M
- Mädchen in Uniform, starring Lilli Palmer and Romy Schneider (West Germany)
- Madhumati, directed by Bimal Roy - (India)
- The Magician (Ansiktet), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow - (Sweden)
- The Man Inside - (U.K.)
- Man of the West, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Gary Cooper, Lee J. Cobb, Julie London
- Marjorie Morningstar, starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly
- The Matchmaker, starring Shirley MacLaine
- Me and the Colonel, starring Danny Kaye
- Merry Andrew, starring Danny Kaye
- Les miserables, starring Jean Gabin - (France)
- Mon Oncle, directed by and starring Jacques Tati - (France)
- Monster on the Campus
- Murder by Contract
N-Q
- The Naked Maja - (Italy/France/U.S.)
- The Night Heaven Fell (Les Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune), directed by Roger Vadim, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
- A Night to Remember, directed by Roy Baker, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
- No Time for Sergeants, starring Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams
- The Old Man and the Sea – based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, starring Spencer Tracy
- Party Girl
- Orders to Kill, directed by Anthony Asquith (U.K.)
- The Quiet American, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave
R
S
- Screaming Mimi, starring Anita Ekberg
- Separate Tables, starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven
- The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
- The Sheepman, starring Glenn Ford and Shirley MacLaine
- The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, starring Jayne Mansfield and Kenneth More - (U.K.)
- Solva Saal, starring Dev Anand - (India)
- Some Came Running, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
- South Pacific, starring Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor
- St. Louis Blues, featuring Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway and Ella Fitzgerald
T
- A Tale of Two Cities, starring Dirk Bogarde - (U.K.)
- The Tarnished Angels, starring Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone
- Teacher's Pet, starring Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie Van Doren
- Ten North Frederick, starring Gary Cooper and Suzy Parker
- The Thing That Couldn't Die
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die, starring John Gavin
- tom thumb - (U.K./U.S.)
- Torpedo Run
- Touch of Evil, directed by and starring Orson Welles with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich
- Tread Softly Stranger, starring Diana Dors - (U.K.)
- Twilight for the Gods
U-Z
film series
Carry On series (1958–1992)
Short film series
Ending this year
Births
- January 4 – Julian Sands, English actor
- January 25 – Dinah Manoff, actress and director
- February 13 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress
- March 3 – Miranda Richardson, English actress
- March 7 – Donna Murphy, actress & singer
- March 10 – Sharon Stone, actress & producer
- March 20 – Holly Hunter, actress
- March 21 – Gary Oldman, English actor & filmmaker
- April 3 – Alec Baldwin, actor
- April 21 – Andie MacDowell, actress
- April 29 – Michelle Pfeiffer, actress
- May 29 – Annette Bening, actress
- June 22 – Bruce Campbell, actor & director
- July 8 – Kevin Bacon, actor
- August 16 – Madonna, pop singer & actress
- August 16 – Angela Bassett, actress
- August 18 – Madeleine Stowe, actress
- August 24 – Steve Guttenberg, actor & comedian
- August 25 – Tim Burton, director, producer & screenwriter
- September 10 – Chris Columbus, director, producer & screenwriter
- September 16 – Jennifer Tilly, Canadian-American actress
- October 9 – Michael Pare, actor
- October 16 – Tim Robbins, actor, screenwriter, producer & director
- October 20 – Viggo Mortensen, actor
- October 26 – Rita Wilson, actress & producer
- November 16 – Marg Helgenberger, actress
- November 17 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress & singer
- November 22 – Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
Deaths
Film Debuts