Maybe my favorite insance is Matthew McConaughey being the most memorable part of a movie while appearing less than five minutes.
Reportedly Brynner would also get pissed at how often McQueen would adjust his hat in the background.
I’m not really into westerns, but I watched about the first thirty minutes of that a couple of days ago because I like the music. My favorite part of that scene is when the undertaker is explaining to these traveling salesmen that his regular driver won’t take Injun Joe. The salesmen exclaim, “Why, he’s prejudiced!” The undertaker says something like “He’s a downright bigot if it keeps from getting his head blown off!”
Something about that line just cracks me up.
The portrayal of the hapless Mexicanos that sets up the story makes me uncomfortable.
Thanks to all for your responses. It’s been illuminating. (Adjusts tie, spits on ground, wipes forehead) 
That’s why W.C. Fields said “Never work with animals or children.”
However, it looks like the little girl on the left is getting ready to haul off and sock her one. She was definitely not pleased!
I would never want to act with a dog if the dog thought my leg had a vagina. It can happen.
I gotta see that movie again
I’d posted this in another thread not too long ago but this probably isn’t the take Paul Simon would have selected from his Sesame Street appearance:
Re: Steve McQueen
Contrary to what Patch notes - I’ve heard the same thing at Kobal says - That many actors hated working with McQueen since he was a notorious and deliberate scene stealer.
It was funny because when I watched Magnificent Seven I did find McQueen’s background fiddling during the wagon scene distracting (I was looking at him wondering what he was doing, not on Yul). Then shortly after, I happened to read a story about McQueen and they mentioned his scene stealing behaviour. I’d never heard of scene stealing before that but immediately understood it.
I didn’t realize we had early videos of Mae West!
In live theatre, the classic technique was to move towards the back of the stage, away from the audience. This forced the other performers(s) in the scene to sturn away from the audience in order to play to you.
Or to move upstage themselves, causing the whole scene to be played while squeezed against the back wall of the set. It’s the dictionary definition of the term “upstaging”.
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One way is to be funnier than Eddie Murphy in a scene with Eddie Murphy who is at the time radiating Peak Eddie Murphy.
[/QUOTE]He stole this scene so hard he got his own popular sitcom. ‘Other Guy’ indeed. Now get off my lawn you whippersnapper while I contemplate WTF was up with girl’s hairstyles at the time.
I would say that what Steve McQueen did was “upstaging.” (Thank you, Ann Hedonia, for the derivation of the term.)
“Scene stealing” is what Bronson Pinchot did to Eddie Murphy. Another example is what Christoph Waltz did to anybody he shared a scene with in Inglorious Basterds.
I’d forgotten - one of my fave examples of the first type also involves Tim Conway and Harvey Korman, at 1:28 of this clip:
There have been black people in Maine at least since 1736.
Lots more references out there if you just look a little.