1958 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Academy Awards 4 Short film series 4.1 Ending this year 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Other movies released

Events

• February 16- "In the Money" 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

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Gigi - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Best Actor: David Niven - Separate Tables
• Best Actress: Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!

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

Other movies released

• Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
• Auntie Mame
• The Black Orchid
• The Bonnie Parker Story
• Carve Her Name with Pride
• The Cranes are Flying
• The Defiant Ones
• The Fly
• Giant Monster Varan
• Gigi
• God's Little Acre
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Jalsaghar
• King Creole
• The Labors of Hercules
• Les Amants de Montparnasse
• Les Girls
• The Long Hot Summer
• Man of the West
• Merry Andrew
• Mon Oncle
• Rickshaw Man
• Ride a Crooked Trail
• Room at the Top
• Separate Tables
• Touch of Evil
• Vertigo
• Wild Strawberriesde:Filmjahr 1958

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