Who Sterling? Hayden?

“eventually running guns and supplies to Yugoslav partisans through the German blockade of the Adriatic, as well as parachuting into Croatia for guerrilla 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.”

Well did fill a screen but most thu pure size. Joan Crawford’s awful Johnny Guitar his worst ever? Cue “The Wanderer”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuqI7yid3ew

According to his 1963 memoir “Wanderer”, Hayden reluctantly accepted a co-starring role in A Summer Place (1959) for $40,000 (approximately $314,000 in 2012 dollars) when his ex-wife Betty Ann de Noon prevented him from sailing to Scandinavia in his sloop

One a kind fer sure and may admire that. EARNED any Silver Star and thus my guy not acting tough there as Newman- Scott- Gleason .

Scott:Shortly before the END of World War II, in 1945, Scott joined the Marines. After completing bootcamp, he was stationed in Washington, D.C and where he often assigned to guard duty at Arlington National Cemetery. His subsequent four-year tour was marked with heavy drinking and a raft of nose-breaking barroom brawls

Newman: Again close no cigar no fault own;
“He later flew as a turret gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, he was ordered aboard the USS Bunker Hill with a draft of replacements shortly before the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. His pilot’s ear infection kept their plane grounded while the rest of their squadron continued to the aircraft carrier. Days later the rest of their unit on the USS Bunker Hill were among those killed when the ship was the target of a kamikaze attack.” Least was there for training

Gleason? No service ever prolly a med reason as seeming healthy young adult. Closest was his co-star Art Carney wounded in leg as a Normandy Machine gunner with permanent limp you can see. 8

Typic of my own reseach…will post on BIO blog 8