"The Thomas Crown Affair" was one of the most stylish movies of the 1960s -- stylish for the icy cool of Steve McQueen as the millionaire who robs banks for kicks; for the similarly frosty cool of Faye Dunaway as the investigator who plays an erotic game of cat-and-mouse with him; for the costumes of Theadora Van Runkle, who helped make Dunaway a fashion trendsetter in "Bonnie and Clyde" and did the same for her here with no fewer than 29 haute-couture outfits; for the jazzy score of Michel Legrand, including the Oscar-winning ballad "The Windmills of Your Mind"; and for the camera trickery of director Norman Jewison, the first Hollywood filmmaker to shoot heist scenes and love scenes in split-screen.

The 1968 caper flick was a favorite of both McQueen and Dunaway, as well as of moviegoers, many of whom prefer it to the similarly slick 1999 remake that starred Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. You can make the comparison yourself when the McQueen-Dunaway original comes out on Blu-ray this week. In it, you'll see many performers who went on to have celebrated careers in film and TV. Let's take a look back at the entire cast and crew of "The Thomas Crown Affair," below.

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The once and future king of cool almost wasn't cast as Thomas Crown; director Jewison, who'd worked with McQueen on "The Cincinnati Kid," thought the part was too different from the hot-tempered, man-of-action roles that had made McQueen a star. In retrospect, the cool, laconic rebel that Crown turned out to be was of a piece with the other roles McQueen played before and after, from the untameable POW in "The Great Escape," to the lead-footed detective in "Bullitt," to the hard-boiled thief in "The Getaway," to the world-weary bounty hunter in "The Hunter." McQueen was just 50 when he died of mesothelioma in 1980, but he lives on as an icon of style; his image in ads for products from cars to sunglasses has made him one of the top-earning dead celebrities.

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The once and future king of cool almost wasn't cast as Thomas Crown; director Jewison, who'd worked with McQueen on "The Cincinnati Kid," thought the part was too different from the hot-tempered, man-of-action roles that had made McQueen a star. In retrospect, the cool, laconic rebel that Crown turned out to be was of a piece with the other roles McQueen played before and after, from the untameable POW in "The Great Escape," to the lead-footed detective in "Bullitt," to the hard-boiled thief in "The Getaway," to the world-weary bounty hunter in "The Hunter." McQueen was just 50 when he died of mesothelioma in 1980, but he lives on as an icon of style; his image in ads for products from cars to sunglasses has made him one of the top-earning dead celebrities.

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The once and future king of cool almost wasn't cast as Thomas Crown; director Jewison, who'd worked with McQueen on "The Cincinnati Kid," thought the part was too different from the hot-tempered, man-of-action roles that had made McQueen a star. In retrospect, the cool, laconic rebel that Crown turned out to be was of a piece with the other roles McQueen played before and after, from the untameable POW in "The Great Escape," to the lead-footed detective in "Bullitt," to the hard-boiled thief in "The Getaway," to the world-weary bounty hunter in "The Hunter." McQueen was just 50 when he died of mesothelioma in 1980, but he lives on as an icon of style; his image in ads for products from cars to sunglasses has made him one of the top-earning dead celebrities.

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