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	Gross
1.	South Pacific	Magna/20th Century Fox	$17,500,000
2.	Auntie Mame	Warner Brothers	$9,300,000
3.	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	MGM	$8,785,000
4.	No Time For Sergeants	Warner Brothers	$7,500,000
5.	Gigi	MGM	$7,321,000
6.	The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad	Columbia	$6,500,000
7.	The Vikings	20th Century Fox	$6,283,000
8.	Vertigo*	Paramount/Universal	$5,306,000
9.	The Young Lions	20th Century Fox	$4,480,000
10.	Some Came Running	MGM	$4,442,000
11	Carry On Sergeant	Pinewood Studios	£500,000 (UK)

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

The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili, Soviet Union

The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho), directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan

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 , 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
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• 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)

• Droopy (1943-1958)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

Births

• January 4 - Julian Sands, actor
• 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

Film Debuts

• Jack Nicholson
• Maggie Smith