1958 IN FILM

The year '1958 in film' involved some significant events.

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1958

Short film series

Births

Deaths

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

: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''

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

★ ''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''

★ ''Houseboat''

★ ''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''

★ ''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

★ ''Separate Tables''

★ ''The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad''

★ ''The Sheepman'', starring Glenn Ford and Shirley MacLaine

★ ''South Pacific''

★ ''Touch of Evil''

★ ''Vertigo''

★ ''The Vikings''

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 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

Deaths

★ January 11 - Edna Purviance, actress

★ January 13 - Jesse L. Lasky, film producer