![]() ![]() A work of fascination on every level: Hayden’s love of the sea, his Hollywood success, his marriages and divorces, his vision of wartime heroism, and blacklist cowardice.Brutal, savage and true.” - New York Post. Literate and literary, rebellious and beatnik.Echoes from Poe and Melville to Steinbeck and Mailer. Finally, scorning all that Hollywood represents, he threw up his $160,000-a-year career and sailed for Tahiti with his four children on a voyage that made headlines all over the world. ![]() After the war, he joined the Communist Party and later recanted, naming the names of his fellow party members before the House Un-American Affairs Committee. and fought with the partisans in Yugoslavia. He has had three wives, including the famous film star, Madeleine Carroll. ![]() Discovered by Hollywood, he acted in more than forty motion pictures including THE ASPHALT JUNGLE and DR. When the President of the United States makes a train stop in a sleepy California town, the town sheriff (played brilliantly by Sterling Hayden) is notified. By twenty-two, he was the captain of his own brigantine. ![]()
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