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Ever since his boyhood summers in Boothbay Harbor, Me., Sterling Hayden (born John Hamilton) had been running away to sea whenever the going got rough. At 15, he sailed as workaway on a schooner from Connecticut to California. He shipped as fireman on a steamer, fished off the Grand Banks, finally got his master's papers and wound up part owner of a schooner that was supposed to carry passengers from Hawaii to Tahiti. Only when his ship piled up in a gale did the handsome blond sailor finally agree to take a Hollywood offer and a crack...
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