Sterling Hayden was at the peak of his earning power as a star when he suddenly quit.
Then Hollywood offered him a screen test..
He had been a Grand Banks fisherman.
He had sailed before the mast and as mate and captain in sailing ships.
Long before he was an actor, Hayden was a seaman.
He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied the courts, and, broke and an outlaw, set sail with his four children in the schooner Wanderer --bound for the South Seas.
Sterling Hayden was at the peak of his earning power as a star when he suddenly quit