Editing Don Siegel (section)

==Early life==
Siegel was born in 1912 to a Jewish family<ref>{{cite book |last=Erens |first=Patricia |title= [[The Jew in American Cinema]] |isbn=978-0-253-20493-6 |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |date=August 1988|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-v2Di_5ShGMC&q=don%20siegel&pg=PA392 392]}}</ref> in Chicago; his father was [[Samuel Siegel]], a mandolin player.<ref>{{cite web |title=Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDZ-9NL2 |website=FamilySearch |publisher=Donald Siegel, 26 Oct 1912. |access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref> Siegel attended schools in New York and later graduated from [[Jesus College, Cambridge]] in England. For a short time, he studied at [[Beaux-Arts de Paris|Beaux Arts in Paris]], but left at age 20 and later went to Los Angeles.<ref name="Munn75">Munn, p. 75</ref>