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. Perched above the south Spokane Valley lies the luxurious new community of Sterling Hills by Hayden Homes. 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. 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. Discovered by Hollywood, he acted in more than forty motion pictures including THE ASPHALT JUNGLE and DR. By twenty-two, he was the captain of his own brigantine.

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