Steve McQueen's Secret Charity Demands

Steve McQueen developed a reputation for demanding free items in bulk from studios when he signed on to movies, asking for things like electric razors and jeans as part of his deal. For years it looked like self-indulgence, but it later emerged that he quietly sent those goods to Boys Republic, the reformatory school he had been sent to as a teenager. The habit turned out to be his way of giving back to the institution that had helped shape him.

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