Sterling Hayden, l'acteur qui se rêvait marin

Spotted at the age of 22 by a Paramount boss in the society pages of a Massachusetts sailing magazine, skipper Sterling Walter left the ocean for Hollywood screens. He became Sterling Hayden for John Huston (When the City Sleeps), Nicholas Ray (Johnny Guitar), Stanley Kubrick (The Ultimate Razzia, Doctor Strangelove) or Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather), while always staying away from the movie business, dreaming above all of getting back to sea as soon as possible. Let's try to imagine the fate of a Sterling Walter who would have refused his first contract with Paramount to travel the oceans, and to study if a truth of Sterling Hayden is not halfway between the actor and the sailor.