In 1972, Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen were the very definition of a Hollywood power couple — and no single photograph captured their magnetic appeal more beautifully than one taken of them together on the set of Papillon in Jamaica. At first glance, it appeared to be just another glamorous image of two attractive people enjoying the warm Caribbean sun. But with the benefit of everything we now know about what was unfolding between them at that precise moment, the photograph takes on a meaning that is considerably deeper, more complicated, and far more emotionally resonant than any casual observer would initially suspect.
HT16. How Steve McQueen ‘stole’ Ali MacGraw and shook 1970s Hollywood
