Steve McQueen The Last Mile - Hardcover

McQueen, Barbara; Terrill, Marshall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1854432265 ISBN 13: 9781854432261

Publisher: Dalton Watson Fine Books, 2006

Synopsis

This is a Signed - Limited Edition book which comes with a 45 minute CD of Steve McQueen reviewing his scripts for the movie Tom Horn. This book covers Steve McQueen's final 3 1/2 years up to and including his untimely death from Cancer. Includes around 400 Color and Black & White Photos taken by Barbara McQueen.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

BARBARA MCQUEEN has remained silent about husband, actor, Steve McQueen, for more than a quarter-century. Now she is ready to open a picture window into their relationship and the final years of the Hollywood icon's life, his most peaceful years. Steve McQueen: The Last Mile is written in passage form and weaves Barbara McQueen's personal history, her relationship with her famous husband and the stories behind the hundreds of pictures she took from 1977 to 1980. The Oregon farm girl turned world-class model, then known as Barbara Minty, was almost half McQueen's age when they met. She found out the screen legend was no ordinary film star: he rode motorcycles, flew antique planes, drank Old Milwaukee beer, collected toys, wore grungy clothes and flouted traditions. McQueen had tired of the movie industry at the end of his career and wanted to scale back his visibility. He grew a beard, let his trademark blonde locks grow long, and dressed like a long-distance trucker. "This was Steve laying aside all his Hollywood stuff to become a real person," said Barbara McQueen. The couple spent their time before his 1980 death traveling around America in his vintage pickup trucks, making friends with "ordinary people" and enjoying life away from Hollywood. The publicity-shy McQueen granted Minty full access to his private world, which is captured in these candid and poignant photos.

From the Back Cover:

IT'S BEEN OVER A QUARTER of a century since Steve and I first dreamt of documenting our three-and-a-half year relationship in this beautiful book that you now hold in your hands. We were going to call it The Long Haul with me providing the pictures and Steve writing the passages recalling our crazy life and numerous adventures. But fate intervened when Steve was diagnosed with cancer in 1980. The project, like so many other things, fell to the wayside while we searched for his cure. Steve passed away that November after surgery in Mexico and I never picked up the camera again. My hundreds of pictures of him stayed tucked away in the closet for nearly 25 years. Then something happened inside me when I turned 50 recently - that's the same age Steve was when he died. It was if a veil had been lifted and I could finally look back on our life together and examine it without fear. This book is my fulfillment of our earlier dream. I know he would have been proud of it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalton Watson Fine Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1854432265
• ISBN 13: 9781854432261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 233