Top-earning actor
Cary Grant
≈ $700,000
Repeats his To Catch a Thief takeEstimate
About $7.8 million in 2025 dollars
Grant had gone independent and took a share of the gross on his films; the figure repeats his documented 1955 take.
Points, Not Paychecks · 1950s
1958
Top-earning actress
Elizabeth Taylor
≈ $244,400
$4,700 a week, annualizedEstimate
About $2.7 million in 2025 dollars
Her MGM contract had paid $4,700 a week since 1952; the figure annualizes it.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1958
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
South Pacific
$16.3 million
- 2
Auntie Mame
$9.1 million
- 3
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
$7.7 million
★ Starring Elizabeth Taylor