TCM Schedule for Saturday, August 22 --- SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: STERLING HAYDEN

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22 Saturday



6:00 AM Battle Taxi (1955)
A hotshot jet pilot joins a helicopter rescue team during the Korean War. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz, Marshall Thompson. Dir: Herbert L. Strock. BW-80 mins, TV-PG

7:30 AM Terror In A Texas Town (1958)
A whaler inherits his father's farm but has to fight off a corrupt town boss. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

8:52 AM Short Film: My Old Town (1948)
John Nesbitt visits his home town, reminiscing about how much simpler life was during childhood. Cast: John Nesbitt BW-9 mins,

9:15 AM Ten Days to Tulara (1958)
A charter pilot in Mexico is forced to help a criminal gang when his son is kidnapped. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor, Carlos Muzquiz. Dir: George Sherman. BW-76 mins, TV-PG

10:32 AM Short Film: Alaska Lifeboat (1956)
BW-21 mins,

11:00 AM Five Steps To Danger (1957)
Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies? Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer. Dir: Henry S. Kessler. BW-80 mins, TV-PG

12:30 PM Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
A mad United States General orders an air strike against Russia. Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:19 PM Short Film: An Hour For Lunch (1939)
BW-9 mins,

2:30 PM Zero Hour! (1957)
When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying. Cast: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden. Dir: Hall Bartlett. BW-81 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

4:00 PM Johnny Guitar (1954)
A lady saloon owner battles a female rancher out to frame her for murder. Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge. Dir: Nicholas Ray. C-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

6:00 PM The Last Command (1955)
Texas hero Jim Bowie defends against Mexican general Santa Ana. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson. Dir: Frank Lloyd. BW-110 mins, TV-PG

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: STERLING HAYDEN

8:00 PM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Marilyn Monroe. Dir: John Huston. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

10:00 PM Manhandled (1949)
A phony psychiatrist's secretary gets caught up in a murder case. Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Dan Duryea. Dir: Lewis R. Foster. BW-96 mins, TV-PG

11:41 PM Short Film: The Soundman (1950)
BW-10 mins,

12:00 AM Crime Of Passion (1957)
An executive's wife barters sex for her husband's business success. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr. Dir: Gerd Oswald. BW-86 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

1:30 AM The Golden Hawk (1952)
Male and female pirates join forces against a corrupt Caribbean governor. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Rhonda Fleming, Helena Carter. Dir: Sidney Salkow. C-82 mins,

3:00 AM The Iron Sheriff (1957)
A sheriff tries to clear his son of the murder of a stagecoach driver. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Constance Ford, John Dehner. Dir: Sidney Salkow. BW-73 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:30 AM Loving (1970)
A conflicted artist tries to find a sense of purpose in life. Cast: George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden. Dir: Irvin Kershner. C-89 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

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1. Sterling Hayden

from imdb:

Mini Biography

Born to George & Frances Simonson Walter, and named Sterling Relyea Walter. Father died in 1925. Adopted by stepfather 'James Hayden' renamed Sterling Walter Hayden. Grew up in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Maine. Though very poor, attended prep school at Wassookeag School in Dexter, Maine. Ran away to sea at 17, first as ship's boy, then as doryman on the Grand Banks, as a seaman and fireman on numerous vessels before getting his first command at 19. He sailed around the world a number of times, becoming a well-known and highly respected ship's captain. At urging of friends, met with producer Edward H. Griffith who signs him to a Paramount contract. Fell for his first leading lady, Madeleine Carroll, and married her. Prior to Pearl Harbor, abandoned Hollywood to become a commando with the COI (later the OSS). Joined Marines under pseudonym "John Hamilton" (a name he never acts under), eventually running guns and supplies to Yugoslav partisans through the German blockade of the Adriatic, as well as parachuting into Croatia for guerilla activities. Won Silver Star and citation from Tito of Yugoslavia. Briefly flirted with Communist Party membership due to friendship with Yugoslav Communists. Returned to film work, which he despised, in order to pay for a succession of sailing vessels. As Red Scare deepens in U.S., he cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee, confessing his brief Communist ties. Ever after regretted this action, holding himself in enormous contempt for what he considered "ratting". Offered role of Tarzan as replacement for Lex Barker, but refused. Made headlines defying court order not to sail to Tahiti with his children following divorce decree. Published autobiography "Wanderer" in 1963, and novel "Voyage" in 1976, both to great acclaim. Cast as Quint in Jaws (1975) but unable to play due to tax problems. Died of cancer in 1986.

Trivia

Was first choice of producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown to play the role of Quint in Jaws (1975), but Hayden's tax problems with the US government--he lived outside the country and if he entered the US he would have been arrested--precluded his taking the role.

Dropped out of high school at the age of 15 and became a sailor, earning his master's license by the age of 21.

When the US entered World War II, Hayden changed his name to John Hamilton to obscure his Hollywood past, and joined the Office of Strategic Services--the predecessor of the CIA--headed by Col. "Wild Bill" Donovan, whose son Hayden had sailed with. Trained in guerrilla warfare, Hayden operated a fishing boat off of Yugoslavia to pick up downed Allied pilots and to supply Josip Broz Tito's Communist partisans. He won a Silver Star and a promotion to captain by the time he was discharged in 1945. He had also become enthusiastic about Communism, and joined the Communist Party after he returned to Hollywood. According to Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley's book "Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s", he was recruited by actress Karen Morley, who was a party activist, and screenwriter and future director Abraham Polonsky assigned him to a group of backlot workers to learn union militancy. He and others like him were, according to Billingsley, tasked with swinging the Screen Writers Guild to the supposedly Communist-controlled Conference of Studio Unions, which launched a strike against the studios in 1946-47. Communist Party membership was secret, and they were to keep their identities secret from other non-Communist industry and union people, Billingsley claimed. Hayden later joined the Committee for the First Amendment, a group of politically active Hollywood actors that included John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye and John Garfield that opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee's persecution of the Hollywood 19, who were suspected of Communist Party membership (the 19 later devolved into the Hollywood 10). Huston vetted the group's members to ensure that none of them were or had been Communists, and when it came out that Hayden was one, the group broke up. Members like Bogart felt that they had been used by the Communist Party, and were not amused.

Bought a canal barge in the Netherlands and moved it to Paris to live on it part of the time (1969).

Personal Quotes

on why he hated acting] Because, in the final analysis, an actor is only a pawn - brilliant sometimes, rare and talented, capable of bringing pleasure and even inspiration to others, but no less a pawn for that.

I did nothing in 1947, for which Paramount paid me $70,000.

There is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

If I had the dough I'd buy up the negative of every film I ever made . . . and start one hell of a fire.