1958 in film

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Events

• January 29 – Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is an early example of the French New Wave. Le Beau Serge is credited as the first French New Wave feature.
• February 16 – In the Money by William Beaudine is released. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began in 1946.
• February 27 – Harry Cohn, the remaining founder of Columbia Pictures and one of the last remaining Hollywood movie moguls, dies.
• The second installment of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible is officially released, having previously been shelved for political reasons. It would be the last of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible trilogy as the director died during production on Part III.
• April – Samuel J. Briskin leaves MGM and rejoins Columbia Pictures later becoming vice president and general manager of the studio.
• April 22 – Sol C. Siegel becomes head of studio operations at MGM.
• May 15 – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer releases Gigi, one of the last classic MGM musicals. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, produced by Arthur Freed, and written by Alan Jay Lerner, the film is released to considerable critical and commercial success and would become the highest-grossing musical ever made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, until That's Entertainment! in 1974.
• May 17 – Joseph E. Levine presents a picture on his own for the first time with 1954's Attila in an all-out exploitation saturation booking in the United States earning rentals of $2 million.
• August 31 – Carry on Sergeant, the first film in the popular British Carry On series, opens.
• October – Universal Pictures sells the Universal lot to Music Corporation of America for $11.25 million and leases it back for $1 million a year.
• November 15 – During production of Solomon and Sheba in Madrid, Spain, actor Tyrone Power dies of a massive heart attack. The production of the film was halted and was later finished in late 1959. Power, who was playing the role of King Solomon, was replaced in the film by Yul Brynner.
• December 16 – MCA Inc. acquires the Universal Pictures studio lot for $11 million. It would later acquire the studio.

  Awards

Notable films released in 1958

A

• Amar Deep, remake of Amara Deepam, starring Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala and Padmini –
• Ambush at Cimarron Pass, starring Scott Brady and Clint Eastwood
• And Quiet Flows the Don –
• Andy Hardy Comes Home, starring Mickey Rooney
• Another Time, Another Place, starring Lana Turner and Sean Connery –
• Apache Territory, starring Rory Calhoun
• Appu Chesi Pappu Koodu, starring N. T. Rama Rao –
• Arms and the Man –
• Ash Wednesday, starring María Félix and Arturo de Córdova –
• Ashes and Diamonds, directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Zbigniew Cybulski –
• Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, starring Allison Hayes
• Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, Coral Browne, Forrest Tucker, Roger Smith, Peggy Cass

  B

• The Ballad of Narayama –
• The Barbarian and the Geisha, starring John Wayne and Eiko Ando
• Le Beau Serge, directed by Claude Chabrol –
• Bell, Book and Candle, starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
• The Big Country, directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors
• Big Deal on Madonna Street, starring Vittorio Gassman, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni –
• The Black Orchid, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
• The Blob, starring Steve McQueen
• Bonjour Tristesse, directed by Otto Preminger, starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Jean Seberg
• The Bonnie Parker Story, starring Dorothy Provine
• The Bravados, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins
• Brink of Life, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Eva Dahlbeck and Ingrid Thulin –
• The Brothers Karamazov, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Lee J. Cobb, Claire Bloom
• The Buccaneer, directed by Anthony Quinn, starring Yul Brynner and Claire Bloom
• Buchanan Rides Alone, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott and Craig Stevens

  C

• Cairo Station, directed by Youssef Chahine –
• Carry On Sergeant, the first in the Carry On film series, directed by Gerald Thomas, starring William Hartnell, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor –
• Carve Her Name with Pride, starring Virginia McKenna and Paul Scofield –
• The Castle of the Monsters –
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson
• A Certain Smile, starring Rossano Brazzi and Joan Fontaine
• Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala –
• Chase a Crooked Shadow, starring Richard Todd and Anne Baxter –
• China Doll, starring Victor Mature
• The Colossus of New York, starring Ross Martin and Mala Powers
• Cowboy, starring Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon
• The Crawling Eye , directed by Quentin Lawrence, starring Forrest Tucker and Janet Munro –
• The Cry Baby Killer, directed by Roger Corman, featuring Jack Nicholson in his film debut
• Cry Terror!, starring James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson

  D

• Damn Yankees, directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen, starring Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston
• Darby's Rangers, directed by William Wellman, starring James Garner
• The Deep Six, starring Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
• The Defiant Ones, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier
• Desire –
• Desire Under the Elms, starring Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives
• The Doctor's Dilemma, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Dirk Bogarde
• Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing –
• Dunkirk, starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough –

  E

• Édes Anna, directed by Zoltán Fábri –
• Elevator to the Gallows, directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau –
• Enchanted Island, starring Jane Powell
• Endless Desire, directed by Shōhei Imamura –
• Equinox Flower, directed by Yasujirō Ozu –

  F

• The Fabulous World of Jules Verne –
• Fanfare –
• Flood Tide, starring George Nader and Cornell Borchers
• A Flower in Hell –
• The Fly, starring Vincent Price
• Fort Massacre, starring Joel McCrea
• From Hell to Texas, starring Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Dennis Hopper
• From the Earth to the Moon, starring Joseph Cotten

  G

• The Geisha Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
• Giants and Toys –
• The Gift of Love, directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack
• Gigi, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
• Girl on the Run, starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
• God's Little Acre, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Fay Spain, Tina Louise
• The Goddess, starring Kim Stanley
• Goha, starring Omar Sharif –
• Gunman's Walk, starring Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant

  H

• H8 –
• The H-Man, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• Harry Black, starring Stewart Granger and Barbara Rush –
• Hercules, starring Steve Reeves –
• The Hidden Fortress, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune –
• High School Confidential, starring Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, Mamie Van Doren
• The Horse's Mouth, starring Alec Guinness –
• Houseboat, starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren
• The Hunters, starring Robert Mitchum

  I

• I Accuse!, directed by and starring José Ferrer –
• I Want to Live!, starring Susan Hayward
• I Was Monty's Double, starring M. E. Clifton James and John Mills –
• Ice Cold in Alex, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring John Mills and Sylvia Syms –
• The Idiot –
• Imitation General, directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Red Buttons, Taina Elg
• In Case of Adversity, starring Jean Gabin and Brigitte Bardot –
• In the Money, starring the Bowery Boys
• Indiscreet, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman –
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, directed by Mark Robson, starring Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat
• Intent to Kill, starring Richard Todd, Betsy Drake, Herbert Lom
• Iron Flower –
• It Happened in Broad Daylight –
• It! The Terror from Beyond Space, directed by Edward L. Cahn, starring Marshall Thompson, Paul Langton and Ray Corrigan as the monster of the title
• Ivan the Terrible, Part Two, directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolay Cherkasov –

  J–K

• Jalsaghar, directed by Satyajit Ray –
• Kala Pani, starring Dev Anand and Madhubala –
• The Key, starring William Holden and Sophia Loren, based on Jan de Hartog novel –
• King Creole, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Elvis Presley, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Walter Matthau

  L

• Lafayette Escadrille, World War I film starring Tab Hunter, with an early appearance by Clint Eastwood
• Lake of the Dead –
• The Last Hurrah, starring Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Pat O'Brien, Basil Rathbone
• The Law and Jake Wade, starring Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark
• The Law Is the Law, starring Totò and Fernandel –
• The Left Handed Gun, starring Paul Newman
• The Light in the Forest, starring Fess Parker
• The Lineup, starring Eli Wallach
• Lonelyhearts, starring Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Maureen Stapleton
• The Long, Hot Summer, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Tony Franciosa, Lee Remick
• The Lovers, directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Alain Cuny –
• The Lovers of Montparnasse, directed by Jacques Becker and Max Ophüls –

  M

• Machine-Gun Kelly, starring Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot and Morey Amsterdam
• Mädchen in Uniform, starring Lilli Palmer and Romy Schneider
• Madhumati, directed by Bimal Roy, starring Vyjayanthimala in triple role and Dilip Kumar –
• The Magician, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow –
• Maigret Sets a Trap , starring Jean Gabin –
• The Man Inside, starring Jack Palance and Anita Ekberg –
• A Man of Straw, directed by and starring Pietro Germi –
• Man of the West, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Gary Cooper, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Lord, Julie London
• Marjorie Morningstar, starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly
• The Matchmaker, starring Shirley MacLaine
• Me and the Colonel, starring Danny Kaye
• Merry Andrew, starring Danny Kaye
• Les Misérables, starring Jean Gabin –
• Mon Oncle, directed by and starring Jacques Tati –
• Monster on the Campus, directed by Jack Arnold
• Murder by Contract, starring Vince Edwards

  N

• The Naked Maja, starring Ava Gardner and Anthony Franciosa –
• Next to No Time, starring Kenneth More and Betsy Drake –
• The Night Heaven Fell, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Brigitte Bardot –
• A Night to Remember, directed by Roy Baker, starring Kenneth More –
• No Time for Sergeants, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Murray Hamilton, Nick Adams

  O

• The Old Man and the Sea, based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, starring Spencer Tracy
• Onionhead, starring Andy Griffith, Walter Matthau, Felicia Farr, Joey Bishop
• Orders to Kill, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Eddie Albert –
• The Outlaws –

  P–Q

• Paris Holiday, starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg
• Party Girl, starring Cyd Charisse and Robert Taylor
• The Perfect Furlough, starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
• The Proud Rebel, starring Alan Ladd and Olivia de Havilland
• A Question of Adultery, directed by Don Chaffey, starring Julie London, Anthony Steel, Basil Sydney, Donald Houston –
• The Quiet American, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave

  R

• Raj Tilak, remake of Vanjikottai Valiban, starring Gemini Ganesan, Vyjayanthimala and Padmini –
• Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins
• The Reluctant Debutante, starring Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee
• Return of the Fly, starring Vincent Price
• The Revenge of Frankenstein, starring Peter Cushing –
• The Rickshaw Man, starring Toshiro Mifune –
• Ride a Crooked Trail, starring Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau
• Rock-A-Bye Baby, starring Jerry Lewis
• Rosaura at 10 O'Clock –
• Run Silent, Run Deep, directed by Robert Wise, starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster

  S

• Saddle the Wind, starring Robert Taylor, Julie London, John Cassavetes
• Sadhna, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt –
• Screaming Mimi, starring Anita Ekberg
• Separate Tables, starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven
• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, starring Kerwin Mathews
• The Sheepman, starring Glenn Ford and Shirley MacLaine
• The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, starring Jayne Mansfield and Kenneth More –
• The Sign of Zorro
• Sing, Boy, Sing, directed by Henry Ephron, starring Tommy Sands
• Solva Saal, starring Dev Anand –
• Some Came Running, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
• South Pacific, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, Ray Walston
• Stage Struck, starring Henry Fonda and Susan Strasberg
• Stakeout on Dope Street, starring Abby Dalton
• St. Louis Blues, featuring Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald
• St. Peter's Umbrella –
• Summer Love, starring John Saxon and Jill St. John

  T

• A Tale of Two Cities, starring Dirk Bogarde –
• Tamango, starring Dorothy Dandridge
• The Tarnished Angels, starring Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone
• Teacher's Pet, starring Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie Van Doren
• Ten North Frederick, starring Gary Cooper and Suzy Parker
• Terror in a Texas Town, starring Sterling Hayden
• This Happy Feeling, starring Debbie Reynolds, John Saxon, Alexis Smith
• Thunder Road, starring Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Keely Smith
• A Time to Love and a Time to Die, starring John Gavin
• The Tinder Box –
• Tom Thumb, starring Russ Tamblyn and Terry-Thomas –
• Too Much, Too Soon, starring Dorothy Malone, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Errol Flynn
• Torpedo Run, starring Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine
• Touch of Evil, directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich
• Tread Softly Stranger, starring Diana Dors –
• The True Story of Lynn Stuart, starring Betsy Palmer
• The Tunnel of Love, starring Doris Day and Richard Widmark
• Twilight for the Gods, starring Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse

  U–Z

• Underworld Beauty –
• Vanjikottai Valiban, starring Gemini Ganesan, Vyjayanthimala and Padmini –
• Varan the Unbelievable, directed by Ishirō Honda –
• Vengeance, directed by Juan Antonio Bardem, starring Raf Vallone –
• Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak
• The Vikings, starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
• The Village on the River –
• Virgin Island, starring John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell and Sidney Poitier
• White Wilderness, a Disney nature film
• The Young Lions, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin

  Film series

Short film series

• Looney Tunes
• Terrytoons
• Merrie Melodies
• The Three Stooges
• Bugs Bunny
• Yosemite Sam
• Speedy Gonzales

• Droopy
• Tom and Jerry

  Births

• January 4
• *Matt Frewer, Canadian-American actor, singer and comedian
• *Julian Sands, English actor
• January 26 – Ellen DeGeneres, American actress & comedian
• February 13 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress
• February 19 – Pierre-Loup Rajot, French actor & director
• February 21 - Denise Dowse, American actress & director
• March 3 – Miranda Richardson, English actress
• March 10 – Sharon Stone, American actress & producer
• March 20 – Holly Hunter, American actress
• March 21 – Gary Oldman, English actor & filmmaker
• March 29 – Anu Lamp, Estonian actress
• April 3
• *Alec Baldwin, American actor
• *Jaan Rekkor, Estonian actor
• April 14 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor, writer & director
• April 21 – Andie MacDowell, American actress
• April 29 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
• May 12 – Tony Oliver, Puerto Rican voice actor
• May 29 – Annette Bening, American actress
• June 20 – Paul Poom, Estonian actor
• June 22 – Bruce Campbell, American actor & director
• July 6 – Jennifer Saunders, English comedian, screenwriter, singer and actress
• July 8 – Kevin Bacon, American actor
• July 27 - Vincenzo Nicoli, English-Italian actor
• August 3 – Lambert Wilson, French actor
• August 16
• *Angela Bassett, American actress
• *Madonna, American pop singer & actress
• *Toby Sedgwick, English actor and theatre director
• August 18 – Madeleine Stowe, American actress
• August 24 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor & comedian
• August 25 – Tim Burton, American director, producer & screenwriter
• August 29 – Michael Jackson, American pop singer & actor
• September 6 – Michael Winslow, American actor, beatboxer, and comedian
• September 10 – Chris Columbus, American director, producer & screenwriter
• September 16 – Jennifer Tilly, Canadian-American actress
• October 9 – Michael Paré, American actor
• October 16 – Tim Robbins, American actor, screenwriter, producer & director
• October 20 – Viggo Mortensen, Danish actor
• November 5 – Robert Patrick, American actor
• November 16 – Marg Helgenberger, American actress
• November 17 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress & singer
• November 22 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
• December 30 – Pedro Costa, Portuguese director
• December 31- Bebe Neuwirth, American Actress

  Deaths

• January 11 – Edna Purviance, 62, American actress, The Kid, A Woman of Paris
• January 13 – Jesse L. Lasky, 77, American producer, Wings, The Cocoanuts
• February 13 – Helen Twelvetrees, 49, American actress, A Bedtime Story, Now I'll Tell
• February 15 – William Berke, 54, American director, Dick Tracy, FBI Girl
• February 17 – Tala Birell, 50, Romanian actress, Women in the Night, Dangerous Millions
• February 27 – Harry Cohn, 66, American film executive, co-founder of CBC Sales Association, Platinum Blonde, American Madness
• March 22
• *Mike Todd, 48, American producer, Around the World in 80 Days, This Is Cinerama
• *Art Cohn, 48, American screenwriter, The Set-Up, Ten Thousand Bedrooms
• April 9 – Sol M. Wurtzel, 67, American producer, Charlie Chan in Rio, Bright Eyes
• April 15 – Estelle Taylor, 63, American actress, Cimarron, The Ten Commandments
• May 2 – Henry Cornelius, 44, South African director, Genevieve, I Am a Camera
• May 19 – Ronald Colman, 67, British actor, Lost Horizon, Random Harvest
• June 6 – Virginia Pearson, 72, American actress, The Phantom of the Opera, The Wizard of Oz
• June 9 – Robert Donat, 53, British actor, The 39 Steps, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• July 11 – Evelyn Varden, 65, American actress, The Night of the Hunter, Ten Thousand Bedrooms
• July 20 – Franklin Pangborn, 69, American actor, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, The Bank Dick
• August 1 – Albert E. Smith, 83, English director and producer, co-founder of Vitagraph Studios
• August 8 – Barbara Bennett, 51, American actress, Black Jack, Syncopation
• August 18 – Bonar Colleano, 34, British actor, Eight Iron Men, Joe MacBeth
• August 21 – Kurt Neumann, 50, German director, The Fly, Mohawk
• August 27 – Priscilla Lawson, 44, American actress, Flash Gordon, Rose Bowl
• October 4 – Ida Wüst, 74, German actress, Chamber Music
• November 15 – Tyrone Power, 44, American actor, Witness for the Prosecution, The Mark of Zorro
• December 1 – Boots Mallory, 45, American actress, Sing Sing Nights, Here's Flash Casey
• December 20 – Elisabeth Risdon, 71, British actress, Florence Nightingale, Five Came Back
• December 21 – H. B. Warner, 83, British actor, Lost Horizon, It's a Wonderful Life

  Film debuts

• Claudia Cardinale – Goha
• Veronica Cartwright – In Love and War
• Patty Duke – Country Music Holiday
• Peter Falk – Wind Across the Everglades
• Nigel Hawthorne – Carve Her Name with Pride
• Ian Holm – Girls at Sea
• Jack Nicholson – The Cry Baby Killer
• Suzanne Pleshette – The Geisha Boy
• Christopher Plummer – Stage Struck
• Vanessa Redgrave – Behind the Mask
• Oliver Reed – The Square Peg
• Don Rickles – Run Silent, Run Deep
• Gena Rowlands – The High Cost of Loving
• John Williams – Daddy-O