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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.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Actors | Gross |
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| 1. | South Pacific | Magna/20th Century Fox | Mitzi Gaynor | $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 | $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 and 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 and Montgomery Clift | $4,480,000 |
| 10. | Some Came Running | MGM | Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine | $4,442,000 |
| 11. | The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw | 20th Century Fox | Jayne Mansfield | $4,410,000 |
| 12. | Separate Tables | United Artists | Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster and David Niven | $4,350,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
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
Films released in 1958
- Les Amants de Montparnasse
- Andy Hardy Comes Home
- Another Time, Another Place, starring Lana Turner and Sean Connery
- Apache Territory
- Attack of the Puppet People
- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
- Auntie Mame (film), starring Rosalind Russell
- The Big Country, starring Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons and Carroll Baker
- The Black Orchid
- The Blob, starring Steve McQueen
- Bonjour Tristesse
- The Bonnie Parker Story
- The Brothers Karamazov
- The Buccaneer
- Buchanan Rides Alone
- Carry On Sergeant
- Carve Her Name with Pride
- El Castillo de los Monstruos
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman
- Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
- Cowboy
- Damn Yankees
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People, with Sean Connery
- The Defiant Ones, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier
- Desire Under the Elms
- The Horror of Dracula
- Le Fatiche di Ercole (The Labors of Hercules)
- The Fly
- From the Earth to the Moon
- The Geisha Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
- Gigi, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jordan and Maurice Chevalier
- God's Little Acre
- The Goddess starring Kim Stanley
- High School Confidential, starring Russ Tamblyn and Mamie Van Doren
- The Horse's Mouth
- Houseboat, starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren
- The Hunters
- I Accuse!
- Indiscreet, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
- In the Money
- I Want to Live!, starring Susan Hayward
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman
- Jalsaghar
- The Key, based on Jan de Hartog novel
- King Creole
- Lafayette Escadrille, WWI film starring Tab Hunter, with an early appearance by Clint Eastwood
- The Left Handed Gun, starring Paul Newman
- Lonelyhearts, starring Montgomery Clift
- The Light in the Forest
- The Long, Hot Summer, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
- Man of the West
- Marjorie Morningstar, starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly
- Me and the Colonel
- Merry Andrew
- Mon Oncle
- Monster on the Campus
- The Naked Maja
- The Night Heaven Fell, starring Brigitte Bardot
- No Time for Sergeants -(film mentioned in article)
- The Old Man and the Sea - based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, starring Spencer Tracy
- Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Joan Collins
- 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, starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster
- Screaming Mimi, starring Anita Ekberg
- Separate Tables, starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster and 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
- Some Came Running, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine
- South Pacific, starring Mitzi Gaynor
- The Tarnished Angels, starring Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone
- Teacher's Pet, starring Clark Gable and Doris Day with Gig Young and Mamie Van Doren
- The Thing That Couldn't Die
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die, starring John Gavin
- tom thumb
- Torpedo Run
- Touch of Evil, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles and Marlene Dietrich
- Tread Softly Stranger, starring Diana Dors
- Twilight for the Gods
- Varan the Unbelievable
- Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak
- The Vikings
- White Wilderness, a Disney nature film
- The Young Lions, starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin
film series
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
- January 4 - Julian Sands, actor
- January 25 - Dinah Manoff, actress best known as Marty in 1978's Grease
- 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
- September 10 - Chris Columbus, American director, producer & screenwriter
- October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor
- October 20 - Viggo Mortensen, actor
- October 26 - Pascale Ogier, French actress (d. 1984)
- October 26 - Rita Wilson, actress
- November 17 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, US actress
- November 22 - Jamie Lee Curtis, US actress
- December 6 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator
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)
- March 22 - Mike Todd, producer
- April 15 - Estelle Taylor, silent film actress
- May 19 - Ronald Colman, actor
- November 15 - Tyrone Power, actor