Indian not ! Steve McQueen Original manuscript hand written notes , signed book

Its time to move some of my stuff to a new owner. having been a collector for many years I Have accumulated many things that were cool to see and touch but I need to slim it down some so here is what I have for the moment and watch my listings as there will be more . also a full trailer load of memorabilia and parts at Wasseon. This is the one and only Manuscript for the book (My Husband My Friend ) written by Neile McQueen /Adams Steves most beautiful first wife. I purchased it directly from her at a Bonhams auction . It includes many hand written notes in the margins and gives an incredible insight into Steve and his family's life. It comes with a copy of the book and is signed by Neile . There has been much talk of making this into a movie of Steve's life and we all know how wild a movie that will be. A movie should make this jump in value. Great investment great read and very cool insights the rest of the world doesn't have. Maybe Pawn stars would like it? I can bring it to Wasseon if paid for in full. Pay pal deposit and cash or equivalent for full payment. Call for my payment info. 616-450-0640 Bill Any questions just ask. Thanks for bidding Didn't quite know where to list this but of course its not a motorcycle and has no title Sold with a bill of sale. Check other listings cool antique stuff. Also Steve McQueen's personal items such as a 1906 Remington 12 pump The Original manuscript to the book telling his life's story. Call for any details. Don't miss wasseon truck load . time to down size. Neile Adams/McQueen one of the most beautiful women of Hollywood Wife of one of the all time Icons and a Star in her own right. She has lived a life of excitement and adveture. This is the story of her marriage and relationship with The Man who was idolized by men and women the world over. For Sale; is the original Printed Manuscript for the book (MY Husband My Friend).Along with a copy of the book and the catalog ticket from the auction. Signed by Neile and noted through out by her with the details and changes prior to publication. I purchased this at her auction conducted by Bonhams in Nov 2008 at the Petersen Automobile Museum. Lot #118. She signed the manuscript at that time. This includes many personal touches deleted pages and notes that give insight to the Book as well as her and Steve's life. I have heard discussion lately about the book being the basis for a movie about Steve. Bleow is an interview of Neile on the subject. Certainly Steve McQueen's life will hit the big Screen and I assume this manuscript will gain a significant notoriety . My Husband My Friendmovie adaption moving forward.Neile and Steve in Paris 1965Plans to turn Neile McQueen Toffel's autobiography and tell all story of her 15 year marriage to husband Steve McQueen into a movie are moving forward. Neile announced through a publicist in August that New Line’s Kevin Kasha is developing the big-screen adaptation and that “A search is now underway to cast actors who will portray the enduring screen icon Steve McQueen and his former wife Neile McQueen Toffel who is the mother of the actor’s children and was by his side for 15 years during the production of all of his major films.”Neile expressed her feelings on the enormous challenge of casting her famous husband toMcQueenOnline: “The thing with Steve... the reason he is so hard to cast and which is fraught with danger for any actor is the sensitivity that he exhibited... his sensitivity his troubled past his kindness his sweetness his crazyness but also there was always lurking behind that that sense of danger.”Speaking with asianjournal.com regarding casting of her own character Neile said: “Anyone can play me as long as they fit the bill. The director and producers will have to come up with the character description. I'm not as objective about me.”For 15 and a half years Neile McQueen Toffel was Mrs. Steve McQueenthe woman who shared everything with him. Neile has just re-released ina new special 20th Anniversary edition her highly successful and deeplyintimate 1986 memoir of her marriage to SteveMy Husband My Friend.In this exclusive interview Neile talks candidly about her life with Steveher reasons for writing the book and it's unexpected impact on her life.MO:There are so many people out there who still today are so passionate about Steve McQueen even though he's been gone since 1980. As his wife I guess you wonder why other people get so connected to somebody they've never met.Neile:I don't think you can explain that. I think you walk into a room and there's a stranger across the crowded room and you go right to them. So you just never know. But on the other hand with Steve and I because our backgrounds are so similar I mean because we had all the stuff going on in our lives it was just a natural chemistry that drew us together. We just understood each other right from the very beginning.MO:That's a very special thing and it's hard to find.Neile:Yes yes... So he moved in with me in a few days time because it was either me move into his place which was awful (laughs) or he move into mine which was fairly good because I was a working Broadway dancer.MO:When you first releasedMy Husband My Friendyou expressed that you were unhappy with the books that were out at the time and that you wanted to clear up misconceptions.Neile:There were a few things that happened I mean I didn't really do that to 'set the record straight' I hate that phrase anyway. I just wanted to... just say it the way it was and also describe him the way he was because most of those people had never even met him. Like if you look at certain books that came out after mine most of what they write is taken from my book and then they give me credit for saying... "Neile said this" and "Neile said that" "according to Neile"... you know what I mean... there's a lot of that shit that drove me crazy (laughs). But there was another writer who said "I was the only journalist that he would talk to." I mean... I was around at that time I thought to myself "when would he meet with Steve at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning? That's ridiculous."Also somehow I think the very first book on Steve I believe when he was still doingWanted for some crazy reason they put his height at 5'7" which is totally ludicrous. I've got his passports to prove that he was 5'10 1/2" 5'11". And they said "well he looks tall because you're little." I said "That's not the point I always wear heels too." (laughs) He was the same height as Bob Redford and Paul Newman they were all the same height. Like bookends.MO:People still argue about that today.Neile:It's ridiculous. And I'm there to tell them that it's not so and they'll argue with me! And they'venever even seen him! It's insane (laughs).MO:So he was definitely 5'10 1/2"?Neile:Oh yeah (laughs) in fact the last 2 passports had him at 5'11" I think it depended on his shoes.MO:A popular legend is the rivalry between Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. Some writers wouldhave it appear that it consumed Steve...Neile:Oh it didn't. But when the opportunity would arise like when it did withButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid andThe Towering Inferno he would rise to the challenge and say "Oh shit this is my chance" (laughs) "I'd better do this". But no he was not consumed by it. And they were friends... Friendly rivals they were.MO:There are also several new books on Steve just released or about to be released at the moment.Neile:Isn't it amazing. Books are starting to come out so I thought "well might as well do it now and get it out there." I've been talking about this for the last year and finally I said "OK let's do it." It seems silly not to. Because it's such a good story anyway. And I think... for people reading this book... it will remind them... that there was a tremendous story between these two people.MO:You've brought the book up to date with present events...Neile:I changed the cover and I added a new epilogue which encompasses Steve's my daughter's and my husband's deaths.MO:You also include more photos?Neile:And I put more photographs in there just to update it.MO:You said that you had to be sensitive when you started to write the book back in 1985 because of Al.Neile:My husband yes. He was so kind and so sweet. Because I had all this stuff inside me that was just waiting to get out because when Steve died I had just gotten re-married and it was very difficult to grieve in front of a new husband so consequently it all started coming out on paper and Al said "Oh for God's sake let me get you a word processor and let's get this out of the way." And he said "but I'm warning you this is going to be the end of it OK because as much as I love you and I know you love me this shit has got to stop." (laughs) So I said "just let me get this out" and true as soon as my book was over as soon as the tour was over for the book it was fabulous it was a fabulous feeling of relief and then my marriage started with Al really.MO:So it was a very complete thing for you emotionally.Neile:Yeah it was a closure.MO:You really managed to capture Steve in such a real way that the reader can feel his personality coming through the pages. Can you tell me about the creative process you went through in writingMy Husband My Friend?Neile:I just did the book from beginning to end as life unfolded. I had to leave some stuff out because it got too long we had to edit out a few things but on the whole it's all there. I had tons of scrap books - probably about 40 scrapbooks from the time we got married in 1956 till 1968. So the scrapbooks were there to begin with and I just would paste everything. So it was our life together. On top of that I also kept journals which I still do. And with the scrapbooks and my journals when I needed a point of reference it was pretty easy to really follow it through.MO:When the book came out in 1986 the Hollywood press were very hard on you for talking about the worst aspects of the marriage breakdown....Neile:That drove me crazy at the very beginning... they were sort of unforgiving towards me because I was revealing secrets so to speak. Priscilla Presley actually started that and then I did it. But now they understand more... they thought at that point in time I was just calling Steve a wife beater which is ridiculous. The man never laid a hand on me for the first 14 years of our life together but the fact that I'd had an affair just really drove him over the edge and I expected that really because I knew him so well but I didn't think it would destroy our marriage. But it did.MO:It was a very emotionally "explosive" time for you both...Neile:Yes he had... fortunate on one hand and unfortunate on the other... he had me up on a pedestal the man really adored me. But he just couldn't help himself as far as the women were concerned and plus his mid-life crisis coincided with the sexual revolution and the drug culture and all that... I always say that the 'flower children' ruined my life. Because that's when it all really began. While he was discrete in the beginning when he would have a fling here and there now he would say " well why do I have to hide?" So anyway he had me up on this pedestal and when he found out that I'd had a fling to get even with him it was difficult for him to take.For the first 14 years of our lives together he never laid a hand on me. He would explode and he'd be angry and we'd be arguing and all that but he never never laid a finger on me. But unfortunately one night in Le Mans he gave me some coke. He didn't force me but he kept saying "oh please do"... and I was so exhausted and I knew he was not going to let me go to sleep if I didn't have some coke with him. So I said "OK let me have some." And as soon as I had some.... I don't do any of that stuff I don't even drink... and it hit me like a ton of bricks and I started to giggle which was really surprising. And Steve having the insticts of an animal he really did have that he I think knew somewhere along the way that his wife had had an affair somewhere... had done something because he kept saying "well you know baby I'd understand. I would really understand if you had because I've put you through hell." And then I said "reallyhoney?" Well that was all I had to say... that was my big mistake. Because I never never would have said anything to Steve. But when I said "really" and I suddenly saw that pain in his eyes because he knew... I thought "Oh my this feels good" so I kept on boy and that was it that really started the end.MO:As much as Steve was dealing with his own pain you were dealing with your own too because you'd gone through a lot.Neile:The funny thing is had he not turned violent on me I would most likely I would say 90 percent likely I would have stayed in that marriage and just rode it out until he got tired of all that shit which eventually they all do. But unfortunately I couldn't handle the terrorizing more than anything else.MO:His violent response to you was horrible. I believe it's highly likely that you were the only adult link in his life which represented unconditional love.Neile:Absolutely.MO:You were the only link that he'd ever had in his life. And when that failed it was like it devastated some fragile aspect of his soul that he'd been very precariously holding onto all his life. And he snapped.Neile:That's absolutely correct and he was never the same after that. And unfortunately for poor Ali who was really crazy about him... it was a whole different deal it became a whole different life altogether. He just let himself go he let his beard grow he gained weight... all that stuff... he just didn't care. You know... it was like... I mean I really had done it to him and I really felt guilty about that I didn't mean to.MO:Will you have much creative control over the recently announced upcoming film version ofMy Husband My Friend?Neile:Oh yes. That's the reason because I need to have some creative control... especially with the young people today who are emerging as producers because they don't have the life experience so they are going to go for the womanizing and the drugs and the violence. I know that is what's going to happen because I've had talks with them and all they can see is that. They forget that the thrust of this story is the love story between two people. I'll be consultant. Free Shipping in the USA lower 48 States others pay actual cost.

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