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Steve McQueen
Le Mans Site
Steve McQueen takes you for a drive in the country.
The country is France.
The drive is at 200MPH !!
This site is an attempt to gather images and thoughts about the region Steve McQueen lived in during the filming of the 1971 Le Mans film quoting brief passages for the purposes of review and so bring these images alive.......
Welcome to the Steve McQueen Le Mans Site. Launched on 13th Sept. 2001 and regularly updated.
The hotel in Loue where the film crew and John Sturges lived during the filming of Le Mans. McQueen discussing the film at the hotel in Loue in 1970. Sturges and friends leave the hotel and McQueen drives away towards the nearby Chateau where he lived with his family in Vire-en-Champagne which can be viewed elsewhere on this website.
LINKS
The Actors Studio, New York where Steve McQueen trained during the 1950's.
McQueen auditioned using a Clifford Odets play called "Golden Boy" (park bench scene).
The Lyceum Theatre, Broadway NY where McQueen performed in "A Hateful Of Rain."
Opposite the Lyceum Theatre, McQueen would eat at Downies, where he met Neille Adams..... his future wife.
Cover of the book My Husband, My Friend - A Memoir
by Neile McQueen Toffel
In the 1986 book 'My
Husband, My Friend' Neile states
that they lived at 1, Chester Square during
the filming of THE WAR LOVER (page 112).
I have recently purchased and read Marshall Terrill's book, 'Steve
McQueen - A Tribute to the King of Cool and on page 90 there is a copy
of a letter Steve wrote to Hedda re: missing
'California very much' with the address at the top of the page reading
: 80, Chester Square, London S.W.1 (5th
December 1961).
SOME LIKE IT COOL
Cool: you can't touch it, smell it, taste it or even define it. But we can all recognise it, and for most of us it has another name: Steve McQueen. Hollywood megastar, racing driver, pilot and motorbike fanatic, McQueen was the epitome of a man's man, yet women the world over would go weak at just a glimpse of his trademark cropped blond hair and blue eyes. To mark his death, 30 years ago this month at just 50, his widow Barbara, a former model, and biographer Marshall Terrill have produced A Tribute To The King Of Cool (Dalton Watson). It is laced with hundreds of pictures. Taking us from his delinquent farm-boy days to his film classics such as Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair and The Great Escape, this book is the real deal.
WHY STEVE McQUEEN ?
Michael Manning's superb blog interviews click on his image on the right.
(Barbara Minty with journalist Claudia Andrei at the London Movie Poster Art Gallery for the book launch).
Two remaining Steve McQueen etchings by Claudia Andrei, they are roughly 18cm x 23cm. They come unframed and go for £90- (excluding postage) each. Contact me via my email if interested in purchasing one or more of these stunning etchings of Steve McQueen in the iconic film, Bullitt.
Steve McQueen: A Tribute to the King of Cool by Marshall Terrill
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