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Home from the seven seas is
Sterling Hoyden. Welcome bock
By David J. Atchison
THEY say that almost anything is possible in Hollywood, even to bringing the Mountain to Mahomet, but if ever there was a case of Mahomet coming to the Mountain, it materialized the day I went out to Paramount for a luncheon-interview with Sterling Hayden.
It was to be this reporter's first postwar assignment in facing a Name, and Hayden 's first bout with an interviewer in almost six years. I. doubt that "The Mountain" was nervous at the prospects of facing "Mahomet," a mousey bespectacled little guy who stands only fivenine, and weighs 170 pounds.
"The Mountain" looked every inch of his 78, (which is six feet five, students) and his crushing handshake made me realize what he could do with that 212
ness made "Mahomet" feel a little easier about approaching the "Mountain."
If you H recall, in 1940 he starred in his first picture, "Virginia," along with Fred MacMurray and the beauteous Britisher, Madeleine Carroll. That film made the box office bells ring like chimes on Christmas Eve, so Paramount immediately cast him with Madeleine in "Bahama Passage," said (Please turn to page 07)
pounds of brawn if he got mad. Pike's Peak couldn't cause more damage if it fell on you. Walking over to the studio's Continental Cafe, I looked up at him and resisted the temptation to blurt out the time-worn quip usually thrown at tall people, viz, queries about the weather "up there." My still numb right hand, which I was afraid to look at for fear I'd see a twisted pulp, reminded me not to say anything even a shade off color to this gent.
While covering the movie beat before the war I'd heard tales about how uncooperative Sterling Hayden was with the press, how he hated publicity and, above all, how he despised the movies. Once seated across the table from him, however, his ready grin and genuine friendli
Hayden's first film since his return is "Blaze of Noon," with Anne Baxter, above.
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