[ImaGraftedBranch]

You are a racing film?

[MtnMan101]

[Jo Nuvark]

I’m not a racing fan, but had the privilege of
performing for the movie premiere of “LeMans”
in LeMans, France in 1971. I honestly did not
understand anything about the race. My job was
to smile and sing.

Steve McQueen went to Mexico for unorthodox
cancer treatment. He was a manly man. My
husband’s favorite movie is “The Great Escape”.

[Bullish]

I was a racing film for a time.... I gave it up as it’s bad for the health as you surely know.

[DemforBush]

McQueen was indeed the King of Cool.

My two favorite McQueen films are The Sand Pebbles (good bit of historical fiction along with an entertaining film), and the often overlooked Papillon (ya never see that one on cable, but man is it great!).

[libertarian27]

‘The Great Escape’ - one of my top 10 movies
(you think you’re weird:>)

[Cyman]

Very interesting book. Steve McQueen, King of Cool: Tales of a Lurid Life [Book] by Darwin Porter in Books

[Soothesayer9]

Sorry but Papillion was his greatest film. The racing ones are OK, but they were not anywhere in the same league as he and Hoffman.

Always figured he was in his 60s when he died. He didnt age well.

[Robwin]

Best car chase sequence in movies: Bullitt. Also a good mystery and McQueen is very good as the cop.

[Lazlo in PA]

"I just want the brass ring and the pine trees and my kids and the green grass. I want to get rich and fat and watch my kids grow."-SM

[Quix]

IIRC,

He called Billy Graham when he was dying . . . or just before . . . and Billy led him to The Lord.

He reportedly died an authentic believer in Jesus The Christ as his Savior.

[Tainan]

"The Thomas Crown Affair"...1968...the original one.
This is why McQueen was the King of Cool.
Best chess match EVER.

A must see for McQueen fans.

[Lancey Howard]

Hey, thanks for the heads up. I just read the entire Wiki biography and you’re right - - there’s a lot more to Steve McQueen than I ever knew. I knew he was a Marine but it was also interesting to read that he was a conservative Christian.

[Prokopton]

I always liked the story I read years ago that to me was the essence of Steve McQueen. There were terrible mudslides around LA and a number of famous peoples houses were threatened. Hollywood held a benefit for the cleanup, and McQueen showed up on a dozer to do the work himself.

[Squeeky]

All I know about him is this:

Steve McQueen

[Donkey Odious]

Bullitt....Best. Chase scene. Ever.

From “Wanted Dead or Alive” and the infamous Mare’s Leg, to “The Magnificent Seven”, “Nevada Smith”, “Junior Bonner” and “Tom Horn”, Steve McQueen made himself into a cowboy legend. But in movies like “The Thomas Crown Affair”, “Baby the Rain Must Fall” and “The Cincinnati Kid” he proved himself to be the true “King of Cool”. If there is beer in heaven, it will be my pleasure to buy him one.

[robowombat]

Steve McQueen was a brilliant stunt man who unfortunately for him was discovered as an actor. He was quite talented but the elevation to star status eventually overwhelmed him. He came from a dysfunctional family rife with maladaptive behaviors and was frank enough to say that enlisting in the USMC saved him from being a felon. McQueen was constantly in trouble in the Corps over a host of discipline matters. Some did show some foretaste of his stuntman prowess as on one occasion he absconded in a amphibious tractor and avoided detection for several days at Camp Lejeune. For a man with little more than 9/10 spotty years of formal education tinsel towns star treatment and the host of sycophants and manipulators drove him into a kind of depressive spiral. He hid out in a house out in the desert and would collect his mail at a filling station. Eventually he became a sad shell of his previous self, suspicious, wary, and near paranoid. Cancer was his final disaster.

[CaptainK]

Read Ali McGraw’s autobiography if you can get a hold of it. You can tell she was deeply in love with him, but McQueen's later years were a mess. A hot mess.

[Daffynition]

[Squantos]

Watched Tom Horn last night.... The Hunter is on the computer as well as are many more of his movies.