Ultimate Behind-the-Scene Look At Steve McQueen, King Of Cool

McQueen Was Sent to Reform School and Once Worked in a Brothel

It appears to have been his most-recent stepfather’s insistence that inspired his mother to commit him to the care of the Boys Republic, a boy’s reform school. But, it also appears to have been the place that saved him from a life of crime.

Throughout his young life, he had participated in gang life, committing petty crimes, but from the age of 16 onward, he left home once again and drifted from job to job, working in a carnival, a lumberjack camp, and even in a brothel. Given his early history, it’s not surprising that there just aren’t early photos of Steve McQueen.