Steve McQueen: 24 Hours Of Le Mans
How the King Of Cool inspired one of Tag Heuer’s most celebrated watches.
Steve McQueen was the ‘King Of Cool’. He was also the biggest star of his day, a bona fide man’s man, a speed freak as at home behind the wheel as he was in the saddle, and an arch womaniser whose conquests included Mamie Van Doren, Lauren Hutton, his Bullitt co-star Jacqueline Bisset and – most famously – Ali MacGraw who he stole from beneath the nose of top Hollywood exec Robert Evans.
If Terence Steven McQueen’s reputation is remarkable, it’s more extraordinary still for being based on a relatively small body of work. Twenty-eight films – that’s all he had to his name, together with a handful of TV appearances and one small-screen smash, Wanted: Dead Or Alive.
But when you’ve made movies the likes of The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, The Cincinnati Kid, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Getaway, Papillion and the aforementioned Bullitt, you don’t need to worry about quantity. And you can certainly afford to have appeared in clunkers such as The Blob.
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