Have two actors ever fallen out over who gets top billing in a film? trends now

QUESTION: Have two actors ever fallen out over who gets top billing in a film?

Steve McQueen had a persistent inferiority complex towards Paul Newman. It began with the boxing biopic Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) in which Newman led the cast as Rocky Graziano and McQueen had a small uncredited role. He vowed to overtake him.

When McQueen was offered the role of The Sundance Kid opposite Newman in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969), he demanded top billing. 

This was denied, contract negotiations broke down and Robert Redford took on the part that was to make him a star.

When casting for The Towering Inferno (1974) took place, McQueen once again demanded top billing. 

An agreement was struck where their names were staggered diagonally, with McQueen on the advantageous left-hand side but with Newman on the right but slightly higher. 

Reportedly, McQueen also demanded that Stirling Silliphant pen more lines for him within the screenplay so that their roles could be exactly equal.

William Holden also starred in The Towering Inferno – his name was third on the cast list. But he received top billing for Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (1955), which reportedly infuriated co-star Jennifer Jones so much she repeatedly complained to her husband, Hollywood mogul David O. Selznick. It is said she chewed raw garlic before her kissing scenes with Holden, either to annoy him or to keep his hands off her; he was a notorious lady's man.

Thomas Cass, Blackpool, Lancs.

QUESTION: What is the story of the original London Kit-Cat Club?

The Kit-Cat Club was founded in the late 1690s when London bookseller Jacob Tonson began a partnership with pie-maker Christopher (Kit) Cat. 

Initially, Tonson paid to feed talented young writers in return for receiving the first option of their works.