1958 in film
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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
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Peyton Place
- Sayonara
- No Time for Sergeants
- The Vikings
- The Search for Paradise
- South Pacific
- 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!
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
- 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
- Vertigo
- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
- Auntie Mame
- Carve Her Name with Pride
- Gigi
- Jalsaghar
- King Creole
- Les Girls
- Mon Oncle
- Rickshaw Man
- Room at the Top
- Separate Tables
- The Black Orchid
- The Cranes are Flying
- The Defiant Ones
- The Fly
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
- The Labors of Hercules
- The Long Hot Summer
- Touch of Evil
- Vertigo
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