1958 in film

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

1. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Peyton Place
3. Sayonara
4. No Time for Sergeants
5. The Vikings
6. The Search for Paradise
7. South Pacific
8. 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!

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Gigi

Best Actor: Danny Kaye - Me and the Colonel

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame

<u>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

Films released in 1958

• Les Amants de Montparnasse
• 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
• Gigi
• God's Little Acre
• 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
• Separate Tables
• The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
• South Pacific -(sugg. split of musical/film)
• Touch of Evil
• Vertigo
• The Vikings

Short film series

• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

Ending this year

• 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
• 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

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