1 9 5 8 (1st) - 'Sweet smell of success' / 'The bachelor's party'/ 'Band of angels'

19 January 1958 - blockbuster 'Absolutamente certo' which opened in São Paulo in late 1957, promises great box-office intake in Rio... 

19 January 1958 - Ankito & Grande Otelo's popularity was at its peak in early 1958... 

19 January 1958 - '12 homens e uma sentença', a courtroom drama adapted from the teleplay 'Twelve angry men' by Reginald Rose, who produced the film with its star Henry Fonda.

28 January 1958 - As one can see Brazilian movies were really popular in early 1958.

11 March 1958 - Elia Kazan's 'A face in the crowd' (Um rosto na multidão) with Andy Griffith & Patricia Neal. Screenplay written by Budd Schulberg based on his short-story 'Your Arkansas traveker'm from the collection 'Some faces in the crowd' (1953).   

23 March 1958 - released in the USA on 9 April 1957, 'The bachelor party' (Despedida de solteiro) was the first production of Hecht, Hill & Lancaster.

Don Murray & Carolyn Jones.

Don Murray surfaces from the BMT line; Carolyn Jones & Don Murray.

6 April 1958 - 'A maldição de Frankenstein' (The curse of Frankestein) released in 1957, was the very first Hammer Film Productions' film. Loosely based on the novel 'Frankenstein' (1818) by Mary Shelley it was a worldwide success which led Hammer to make several sequels, and new versions of 'Dracula' (1958) and 'The Mummy' (1959), and established 'Hammer Horror' as a distictive brand o Gothic cinema. It had Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstaine and Christopher Lee as the Creature. It was the 'first really gory horror film, showing blood and guts in colour'.

https://ainsworthandfriends.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/the-house-of-horror-a-history-of-hammer/

30 April 1958 - Hecht, Hills & Lancaster try to cash in on 'Trapeze' box-office success pairing off Burt Lancaster & Tony Curtis again in the film-noir 'Sweet smell of success' (A embriaguês do sucesso). Despite a poorly received preview screening, it has greatly improved in stature over the years. It is now highly acclaimed by film critics, particularly for its cinematography and screenplay.

6 May 1958 - OESP reviewer writes extensively about 'Sweet smell of sucess' (A embriaguês do sucesso). Read more at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Smell_of_Success

30 April 1958 - Otto Preminger's 'Saint Joan' (Santa Joana) with Jean Seberg at the height of her beauty. This was actually, Seberg's debut film. She won the talent search conducted by Preminger hat reportedly tested more than 18,000 young women for the role. It was released in the USA on 8 May 1957.

Jean Seberg in the set of 'Saint Joan'.

behind the scenes of 'Saint Joan'.

Miss Seberg about to fly a B.O.A.C. plane in Europe. 

25 May 1958 - At new and luxurious Paisandu, the last 2 days of 'Band of Angels'; next attraction: Audrey Hepburn & Fred Astaire in 'Cinderela em Paris' (Funny face)...

22 June 1958 - Clark Gable & Yvonne De Carlo in 'Meu pecado foi nascer' (Band of Angels) in its 4th week, now at Cine Bandeirantes plus 18 movie houses all over Sao Paulo.