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• February 16- "In the Money" by William Beaudine is released on this date. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys
  The Bowery Boys
  
  The Bowery Boys was a group of actors who made a series of films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958. The group was a revamping of "East Side Kids," who had been making films together since 1940....
   series which began back in 1946.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: Gigi

Gigi (1958 film)

Gigi is a 1958 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella Gigi by Colette....
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Best Director

Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
: Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli was a Hollywood film director and Theatre director. His skilled integration of story, music, lighting, and design elements in a film made him the most critically respected crafter of musical film....
 - Gigi

Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: David Niven

David Niven

James David Graham Niven was an English people Academy Award for Best Actor-winning actor probably best known for his roles as the punctuality-obsessed adventurer Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and the suave cat burglar Sir Charles Litton in The Pink Panther ....
 - Separate Tables

Separate Tables (film)

Separate Tables is a 1958 in film American drama film based on Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name....

Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 in the hope of playing the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind ....
 - I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!

I Want to Live! is a Drama film film noir directed by Robert Wise which tells the story of a woman, Barbara Graham, convicted of murder and facing execution....

Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Burl Ives

Burl Ives

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an United States actor, writer and folk music singer. The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice......
 - The Big Country

The Big Country

The Big Country is a 1958 United States Western film directed by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, and Chuck Connors....

Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Wendy Hiller

Wendy Hiller

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller Order of the British Empire was an English people film and theatre actor. The Academy Awards-winning actress enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years....
 - Separate Tables

Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: Mon Oncle

Mon Oncle

Mon Oncle is a comedic film by French filmmaker Jacques Tati. The first of Tati's films to be formally released in colour, Mon Oncle won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Jury Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, and the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle Awards, receiving more honors than any of Tati's...
(My Uncle), directed by Jacques Tati

Jacques Tati

Jacques Tati was a noted France comedic filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russians father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch people mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris, France....
, France

Drama:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones is a film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners who are shackled together, one white and one black, who must co-operate in order to survive....

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: David Niven - Separate Tables

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Gigi

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
 - Me and the Colonel

Me and the Colonel

Me and the Colonel is a 1958 film based on the play "Jacobowsky und der Oberst" by Franz Werfel. It was directed by Peter Glenville and stars Danny Kaye, Curd J?rgens and Akim Tamiroff....

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
 - Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame is a 1955 in literature novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles the madcap adventures of a boy, Patrick, growing up as the Ward of his deceased father's eccentric sister, Mame Dennis....

Other

Best Director

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Vincente Minnelli - Gigi

The Cranes Are Flying

The Cranes are Flying

The Cranes are Flying is a Soviet Union film about World War II. It depicts the cruelty of war and the damage suffered to the Soviet psyche as a result of World War II ....
(????? ???????, Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili, Soviet Union

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

Hiroshi Inagaki

Hiroshi Inagaki was a Japanese filmmaker most known for the Academy Awards-winning Samurai Trilogy, which he directed. Before becoming a director and screenwriter, Inagaki was a child actor....
, Japan

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries (film)

Wild Strawberries is a 1957 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, about an old man recalling his past. The original Swedish language title is Smultronst?llet, which literally means "the wild strawberry patch", but idiomatically means an underrated gem of a place ....
(Smultronstället), directed by Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
, Sweden

Films released in 1958

• Les Amants de Montparnasse
  Les Amants de Montparnasse
  
  The Lovers of Montparnasse , also known as Montparnasse 19, is a France/Italy film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italy Painting Amedeo Modigliani who worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France....
  
• Andy Hardy Comes Home
• Attack of the Puppet People
  Attack of the Puppet People
  
  Attack of the Puppet People is a 1958 in film Black-and-white science fiction film Horror film directed, produced and written by Bert I. Gordon....
  
• Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
  Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
  
  Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 in film science fiction feature film produced by Bernard Woolner for Allied Artists Pictures. It was directed by Nathan H....
  
• Auntie Mame (film)
  Auntie Mame (film)
  
  Auntie Mame is a 1958 in film film based on the Auntie Mame of the same name, starring Rosalind Russell and directed by Morton DaCosta. The screenplay was adapted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and the Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis....
  
• The Big Country
  The Big Country
  
  The Big Country is a 1958 United States Western film directed by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, and Chuck Connors....
  
• The Black Orchid
• The Blob
  The Blob
  
  The Blob is an independent film American horror/science-fiction film from 1958 depicting a giant amoeba-like Extraterrestrial life that terrorizes the small community of Downingtown, Pennsylvania....
  
• Bonjour Tristesse
• The Bonnie Parker Story
• The Brothers Karamazov
• The Buccaneer
  The Buccaneer (1958 film)
  
  The Buccaneer is a 1958 in film film, made by Paramount Pictures and shot in Technicolor and VistaVision. It takes place during the War of 1812, and tells a heavily fictionalized version of how the pirate Jean Lafitte helped in the Battle of New Orleans and how he had to choose between fighting for America or for the side most likely to...
  
• Carry On Sergeant
  Carry On Sergeant
  
  Carry On Sergeant is the first Carry On films. Its first public screening was on 1 August 1958 at Screen One, London. Actors in this film who went on to be part of the regular team in the series were Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey , Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor and Terry Scott....
  
• Carve Her Name with Pride
  Carve Her Name with Pride
  
  Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 in film Great Britain drama film based on the book of the same name by R.J. Minney. Set during World War II, the film is based on the true story of the heroism of Special Operations Executive agent Violette Szabo....
  
• El Castillo de los Monstruos
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (film)
  
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is an Academy Award-nominated MGM film directed by Richard Brooks based on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams....
  
• Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
  Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
  
  Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi was a famous 1958 Bollywood comedy. The film featured Kishore Kumar, his two brothers, Anoop Kumar and Ashok Kumar, and Madhubala....
  
• Cowboy
• Damn Yankees
  Damn Yankees (film)
  
  Damn Yankees is a 1958 in film musical film made by Warner Bros., a modern version of the Faust legend set in 1950 involving the New York Yankees baseball team....
  
• The Defiant Ones
  The Defiant Ones
  
  The Defiant Ones is a film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners who are shackled together, one white and one black, who must co-operate in order to survive....
  
• Desire Under the Elms
  Desire Under the Elms
  
  Desire Under the Elms is a play by Eugene O'Neill, published in 1924, and is now considered an American classic. Along with Mourning Becomes Electra, it represents one of O'Neill's attempts to place plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy in a rural New England setting....
  
• The Horror of Dracula
  Dracula (1958 film)
  
  Dracula is a 1958 United Kingdom horror film, and the first of a series of Hammer Horror films inspired by the Bram Stoker novel Dracula....
  
• Le Fatiche di Ercole (The Labors of Hercules)
• The Fly
  The Fly (1958 film)
  
  The Fly is an United States Science fiction/horror film, directed by Kurt Neumann. The screenplay was written by James Clavell , from the short story "The Fly " by George Langelaan....
  
• From the Earth to the Moon
  From the Earth to the Moon
  
  From the Earth to the Moon is a humorous science fantasy novel by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of a French people and two well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to...
  
• The Geisha Boy
  The Geisha Boy
  
  The Geisha Boy is a 1958 in film United States comedy film starring Jerry Lewis. Filmed from June 16 to August 7, 1958, it was released on December 23, 1958 by Paramount Pictures....
  , starring Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  
• Gigi
  Gigi (1958 film)
  
  Gigi is a 1958 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella Gigi by Colette....
  
• God's Little Acre
  God's Little Acre
  
  God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell, which was made into God's Little Acre in 1958.The novel was so controversial that a literary board in New York attempted to censor it, leading to the author's arrest and trial for obscenity....
  
• The Goddess
  The Goddess
  
  The Goddess is a 1958 in film Columbia Pictures drama film film starring Kim Stanley and Lloyd Bridges. Others in the cast include Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland, Patty Duke, and Elizabeth Wilson....
  starring Kim Stanley
  Kim Stanley
  
  Kim Stanley was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning United States actor....
  
• The Horse's Mouth
  The Horse's Mouth (film)
  
  The Horse's Mouth is a 1958 in film film, directed by Ronald Neame. Alec Guinness wrote the screenplay from the 1944 novel The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary, and also played the lead role of Gulley Jimson, a London artist....
  
• Houseboat
  Houseboat (film)
  
  Houseboat is a 1958 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original 1968 version of Yours, Mine and Ours ....
  
• The Hunters
• Indiscreet
• In the Money
• I Want to Live!
  I Want to Live!
  
  I Want to Live! is a Drama film film noir directed by Robert Wise which tells the story of a woman, Barbara Graham, convicted of murder and facing execution....
  
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  
  The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 in film 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious United Kingdom maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II....
  
• Jalsaghar
  Jalsaghar
  
  Jalsaghar was released in 1958, sometimes released in the English-speaking world as Jalsaghar: The Music Room, is the fourth feature film directed by Satyajit Ray....
  
• The Key
  The Key (1958 film)
  
  The Key is a 1958 in film war film set in 1940 during the World War II Battle of the Atlantic . It was based on the novel Stella by Jan de Hartog....
  , based on Jan de Hartog
  Jan de Hartog
  
  Jan de Hartog was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker....
   novel
• King Creole
  King Creole
  
  King Creole is an United States motion picture directed by Michael Curtiz, released by Paramount Pictures on July 2, 1958. The film stars Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau....
  
• Lafayette Escadrille
  Lafayette Escadrille (film)
  
  Lafayette Escadrille is a 1958 USA war film starring Clint Eastwood, David Janssen and Will Hutchins. The film is directed by William A. Wellman....
  , WWI film starring Tab Hunter
  Tab Hunter
  
  Tab Hunter is an United States actor and singer who appeared in more than 40 major feature films....
  , with an early appearance by Clint Eastwood
  Clint Eastwood
  
  Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
  
• Lonelyhearts
  Lonelyhearts
  
  Lonelyhearts is a 1958 film noir drama film directed by Vincent J. Donehue. It is based on the play by Howard Teichmann and the 1933 novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West....
  
• The Light in the Forest
  The Light in the Forest
  
  The Light in the Forest is a novel first published in 1953 by U.S. author Conrad Richter. Though it is a work of fiction and primarily features fictional characters, the novel incorporates several real people and facts from U.S....
  
• The Long, Hot Summer
  The Long, Hot Summer
  
  The Long, Hot Summer is a 1958 film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, and Orson Welles. The film is based on stories by William Faulkner, primarily "The Hamlet." The film was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, with Newman winning the award for Best Actor Award ....
  
• Man of the West
  Man of the West
  
  Man of the West is a 1958 in film Western film directed by Anthony Mann in his last film in the genre. The screenplay, written by Reginald Rose, is based on the novel The Border Jumpers by Will C....
  
• Marjorie Morningstar
  Marjorie Morningstar (film)
  
  Marjorie Morningstar is a 1958 in film melodrama film based on the 1955 in literature Marjorie Morningstar . The film, released by Warner Bros....
  
• Me and the Colonel
  Me and the Colonel
  
  Me and the Colonel is a 1958 film based on the play "Jacobowsky und der Oberst" by Franz Werfel. It was directed by Peter Glenville and stars Danny Kaye, Curd J?rgens and Akim Tamiroff....
  
• Merry Andrew
  Merry Andrew (film)
  
  Merry Andrew is a 1958 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart and I.A.L....
  
• Mon Oncle
  Mon Oncle
  
  Mon Oncle is a comedic film by French filmmaker Jacques Tati. The first of Tati's films to be formally released in colour, Mon Oncle won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Jury Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, and the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle Awards, receiving more honors than any of Tati's...
  
• Monster on the Campus
  Monster on the Campus
  
  Monster on the Campus was a black and white, science fiction, horror film, released by Universal Pictures on a low budget. It was also known as Monster in the Night, and Stranger on the Campus....
  
• The Naked Maja
  The Naked Maja
  
  The Naked Maja is a Italy-France-USA co-production made by S.G.C., Titanus Films and United Artists. This historical film biographical film of the painter Francisco Goya was directed by Henry Koster and produced by Silvio Clementelli and Goffredo Lombardo....
  
• No Time for Sergeants
  No Time for Sergeants
  
  No Time for Sergeants was a 1954 best-selling novel by Mac Hyman, which was later adapted into a popular Broadway theater play and 1958 film, as well as a 1964 television program....
  -(film mentioned in article)
• The Old Man and the Sea - based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Hemingway
  
  Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story author, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, France, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation"....
  , starring Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Tracy
  
  Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
  
• Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
• The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho) (aka The Rikisha-Man)
• Ride a Crooked Trail
  Ride a Crooked Trail
  
  Ride a Crooked Trail is a 1958 in film United States western film, with former World War II hero Audie Murphy and future Academy Award winning actor Walter Matthau heading a strong if not well-known cast....
  
• Rock-A-Bye Baby, starring Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  
• Run Silent, Run Deep
  Run Silent, Run Deep
  
  Run Silent, Run Deep is a war film released in 1958 in film based on the 1955 novel by then-Commander Edward L. Beach, Jr.. It was directed by Robert Wise and...
  
• Separate Tables
  Separate Tables (film)
  
  Separate Tables is a 1958 in film American drama film based on Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name....
  
• The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
  The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
  
  The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a 1958 in film Technicolor fantasy film released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Nathan H. Juran, and was the first of Columbia's "Sinbad trilogy" conceptualized and animated by Ray Harryhausen ....
  
• The Sheepman
  The Sheepman
  
  The Sheepman is a tongue-in-cheek 1958 in film Western film directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine and Leslie Nielsen....
  , starring Glenn Ford
  Glenn Ford
  
  Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford was a Canada-born United States actor from Classical Hollywood cinema's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades....
   and Shirley MacLaine
  Shirley MacLaine
  
  Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
  
• The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
  The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
  
  The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw is a 1958 in film western film comedy film, starring Kenneth More and Jayne Mansfield....
  
• Some Came Running
  Some Came Running
  
  Spurred on by the sales and the critical acclaim of his best-selling From Here to Eternity , James Jones set out to write yet another great American novel....
  
• South Pacific
• Teacher's Pet
  Teacher's Pet (1958 film)
  
  Teacher's Pet is a 1958 in film romantic comedy film starring Clark Gable and Doris Day, directed by George Seaton and written by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin....
  
• The Thing That Couldn't Die
• tom thumb
  Tom thumb (film)
  
  tom thumb is a 1958 in film United States of America fantasy-musical film directed by George Pal and released by MGM. It was based on the fairy tale of the Tom Thumb by the Brothers Grimm....
  
• Torpedo Run
  Torpedo Run
  
  Torpedo Run is a 1958 in film war film starring Glenn Ford as a World War II submarine commander in the Pacific Ocean.It was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects....
  
• Touch of Evil
  Touch of Evil
  
  Touch of Evil is an American police procedural film, written, directed and co-starring Orson Welles. Paul Monash and Franklin Coen also wrote scenes for the film....
  
• Vertigo
  Vertigo (film)
  
  Vertigo is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak and featuring Barbara Bel Geddes and Tom Helmore....
  
• The Vikings
  The Vikings (film)
  
  The Vikings was an adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer in 1958 in film, produced by and starring Kirk Douglas, and based on the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall....
  
• White Wilderness, a Disney nature film
• The Young Lions
  The Young Lions
  
  The Young Lions is a novel by Irwin Shaw and a 1958 film based upon the book starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin....
  

• Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes
  
  Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
  (1930
  1930 in film
  
  Events...
  -1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Terrytoons
  Terrytoons
  
  Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
  (1930
  1930 in film
  
  Events...
  -1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Merrie Melodies
  Merrie Melodies
  
  Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
  (1931
  1931 in film
  
  Events...
  -1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• The Three Stooges (1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  -1959
  1959 in film
  
  The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Bugs Bunny
  Bugs Bunny
  
  Bugs Bunny is a fictional rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animation films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros....
  (1940
  1940 in film
  
  The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
  -1962
  1962 in film
  
  The year 1962 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Yosemite Sam
  Yosemite Sam
  
  Yosemite Sam is an animation fictional character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation....
  (1945
  1945 in film
  
  The year 1945 in film involved some significant events....
  -1963
  1963 in film
  
  The year 1963 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Speedy Gonzales
  Speedy Gonzales
  
  Speedy Gonz?les, "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico", is an animation mouse from the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons....
  (1953
  1953 in film
  
  The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
  -1968
  1968 in film
  
  The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
  )

• Droopy (1943
  1943 in film
  
  The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
  -1958)
• Tom and Jerry
  Tom and Jerry (MGM)
  
  Tom and Jerry is a series of animated theatrical short subject created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat and a mouse whose chases and battles often involved comic violence....
   (1940
  1940 in film
  
  The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
  -1958)

Births

• February 11 - Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2.
• February 13 - Pernilla August, Swedish
  Sweden
  
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
   actress
• March 3 - Miranda Richardson
  Miranda Richardson
  
  Miranda Jane Richardson is an England stage, film and television actor....
  , actress
• March 10 - Sharon Stone
  Sharon Stone
  
  Sharon Yvonne Stone is an United Statesn actress, film producer and former Model . She first acheived international recognition for her performance in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct....
  , US actress
• March 20 - Holly Hunter
  Holly Hunter
  
  Holly P. Hunter is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She is best known for films such as Raising Arizona, Broadcast News , Always and The Piano....
  , actress
• March 21 - Gary Oldman
  Gary Oldman
  
  Gary Leonard Oldman is an English people actor, writer, Film director, Film producer, voice-over artist and occasional musician who found fame in roles such as Sid Vicious in 1986 in film biopic Sid & Nancy and Count Dracula in 1992 in film blockbuster Dracula ....
  , actor
• April 3 - Alec Baldwin
  Alec Baldwin
  
  Alexander Rae Baldwin III is an United States film and television actor. Working as Alec Baldwin, he has appeared in prominent films such as Beetlejuice, as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October , in the Martin Scorsese films The Aviator and The Departed....
  , actor
• April 21 - Andie MacDowell
  Andie MacDowell
  
  Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell is an American model and actress. She is the winner of two Golden Globe Awards....
  , actress
• April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer
  Michelle Pfeiffer
  
  Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
  , actress
• May 29 - Annette Bening
  Annette Bening
  
  Annette Francine Bening is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning United States actor....
  , US actress (Mrs Warren Beatty)
• July 8 - Kevin Bacon
  Kevin Bacon
  
  Kevin Norwood Bacon is an United States film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, A Few Good Men , Stir of Echoes, Queens Logic, Wild Things, JFK , Murder in the First, Apollo 13 , Mystic River, The Woodsman, Footloose, Friday the 13th , Diner , and Balto ....
  , actor
• August 16 - Angela Bassett
  Angela Bassett
  
  Angela Evelyn Bassett is an Emmy Award- and Academy Awards-nominated, and Golden Globe-winning African American actress. She has become well-known for her biography film roles portraying women in American culture, perhaps most prominently as singer Tina Turner in the motion picture What's Love Got to Do with It ....
  , US actress
• August 18 - Madeleine Stowe
  Madeleine Stowe
  
  Madeleine Stowe is an United States actor....
  , actress
• August 24 - Steve Guttenberg
  Steve Guttenberg
  
  Steven Robert "Steve" Guttenberg is an United States actor and comedian. He became known during the 1980s, after a series of starring roles in major Hollywood films, including Cocoon , Three Men and a Baby, Police Academy , and Short Circuit....
  , US actor
• August 25 - Tim Burton
  Tim Burton
  
  Tim Burton is an award-winning Film Director and Film Producer. Burton was born in Burbank, California, the first of two sons to Bill Burton and Jean Erickson....
  , director
• October 16 - Tim Robbins
  Tim Robbins
  
  Timothy Francis Robbins is an Academy Award winning United States actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer, Activism and musician. He is the longtime domestic partner of actress Susan Sarandon....
  , American actor
• October 26 - Pascale Ogier
  Pascale Ogier
  
  Pascale Ogier was a France actor.Born Pascale Marguerite Nicolas in Paris, she was the daughter of a musician father and French actress Bulle Ogier....
  , French actress (d. 1984)
• October 26 - Rita Wilson
  Rita Wilson
  
  Rita Wilson is an United States film and theatre actor and Film producer. She is the wife of actor Tom Hanks....
  , actress
• November 17 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  
  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor and singer best known for her role as Carmen in The Color of Money, as well as for her roles as Lindsey Brigman in The Abyss, Gina Montana in Scarface , and Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves....
  , US actress
• December 6 - Nick Park
  Nick Park
  
  Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, Order of the British Empire is a four-time Academy Awards-winning England filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit....
  , film-maker and animator

Deaths

• January 11 - Edna Purviance
  Edna Purviance
  
  Edna Purviance was an United States movie actress during the silent movie era. She was the leading lady in many Charlie Chaplin movies. In a span of eight years, she appeared in over 30 films with Chaplin....
  , actress
• January 13 - Jesse L. Lasky
  Jesse L. Lasky
  
  Jesse Louis Lasky, Sr. was a pioneer Hollywood film producer, a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter...
  , film producer
• February 27 - Harry Cohn
  Harry Cohn
  
  Harry Cohn was the American president and production director of Columbia Pictures....
  , Co-Founder of CBS Sales Association (Columbia Pictures
  Columbia Pictures
  
  Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
  )
• April 15 - Estelle Taylor
  Estelle Taylor
  
  Estelle Taylor was an United States Hollywood, California actor whose career was most prominent during the silent film era of the 1920s.Born Estelle Boylan in Wilmington, Delaware, Taylor married a banker while still a teenager....
  , silent film actress
• May 19 - Ronald Colman
  Ronald Colman
  
  Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
  , actor