Editing Cornel Wilde (section)

==Early life==
Wilde was born in 1912<ref name=ancestry>{{cite web |title=Cornel Wilde<!-- guesswork --> |url=http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/18413308/person/656253550 |url-access=subscription |website=Ancestry.com}}</ref><ref name=USC30>United States Census 1930; Manhattan, New York; Roll: 1576; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1009; Image: 1057.0. This record dated April 9, 1930, gives Wilde's birthplace as Austrian-Hungarian Empire and his birth year as approximately 1912. Furthermore, it indicates his emigration to the United States as a first class passenger on a Dutch steamer in 1920.</ref> in Privigye, [[Kingdom of Hungary]] (now [[Prievidza]], Slovakia),<ref name="United States 1957">''List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States, [[SS Noordam (1902)|S.S. Noordam]], Passengers Sailing from Rotterdam, May 4, 1920'', New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957. iProvo, Utah, 2010.</ref><ref>''Air Passenger Manifest, Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. Flight 971/05'', December 5, 1948. New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957. Provo, Utah, 2010. In this immigration record, Wilde gives his birthplace as Hungary and his birth year as 1912.</ref> although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City.<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news |last=Flint |first=Peter B. |date=October 17, 1989 |title=Cornel Wilde, 74, a Performer and Film Producer |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/17/obituaries/cornel-wilde-74-a-performer-and-film-producer.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003174652/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/17/obituaries/cornel-wilde-74-a-performer-and-film-producer.html |archive-date=October 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 16, 1989 |title=Actor-Director Cornel Wilde Dies at 74 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-16-mn-241-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=March 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309233853/http://articles.latimes.com/1989-10-16/news/mn-241_1_cornel-wilde |archive-date=March 9, 2012}}</ref> Wilde's Hungarian [[Jewish people|Jewish parents]] were Vojtech Béla Weisz (anglicized to Louis Bela Wilde) and Renée Mary Vid (Rayna Miryam), and he was named ''Kornél Lajos'' after his paternal grandfather. The family emigrated to the United States via first class passage aboard a Dutch steamer in 1920, when Kornél was seven years old.<ref name=USC30/><ref name="United States 1957" /> His name was [[Anglicisation#United_States|anglicized]] (as was commonly done at the time in the United States) to Cornelius Louis Wilde.<ref name=ancestry/>

His father's job with a cosmetics firm meant that as a child he travelled in Europe, where he picked up several languages.<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 October 1989 |title=Obituaries: Cornel Wilde |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |issue=41777 |page=19}}</ref><ref name="timesobit">{{Cite news |date=17 October 1989 |title=Cornel Wilde: A sharp sword to remember |work=[[The Times]] |issue=63527 |page=18}}</ref> Wilde entered [[Columbia University]] in New York City as a freshman in the fall of 1929.  He fenced for the [[Columbia Lions fencing|Columbia Lions fencing team]], and won the National Novice Foils Championship held at the [[New York Athletic Club]] in 1929.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |title=Columbia Freshman Wins Novice Foils Championship |newspaper=[[Columbia Daily Spectator]] |date=November 27, 1929 |url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19291127-01.2.4&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22Cornel+Wilde%22------ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925003007/https://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19291127-01.2.4&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22Cornel+Wilde%22------ |archive-date=September 25, 2022 |access-date=November 17, 2024 |volume=LIII |number=44}}</ref>

Wilde qualified for the United States [[Fencing (sport)|fencing]] team for the [[1936 Summer Olympic Games]] in [[Third Reich]] [[Berlin]], but he quit the team before the games and took a role in the theater.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tibbetts |first1=John C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LpcWzZfVEa4C&dq=%22cornel+wilde%22+%22fencing%22&pg=PA78 |title=American Classic Screen Profiles |last2=Welsh |first2=James M. |date=2010-08-12 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7677-4 |page=78 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Freese |first=Gene |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=79g1DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22cornel+wilde%22+%22fencing%22+%22olympic%22&pg=PA72 |title=Classic Movie Fight Scenes: 75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914-1989 |date=2017-09-11 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2935-3 |page=72 |language=en}}</ref> In preparation for an acting career, he and his new wife Marjory Heinzen (later to be known as [[Patricia Knight]]) shaved years off their ages, three for him and five for her. As a result, most publicity records and subsequent sources wrongly indicate a 1915 birth for Wilde.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}