Editing Eli Wallach (section)

==Early life and education==
Eli Herschel Wallach was born on December 7, 1915, at 156 Union Street in [[Red Hook, Brooklyn]], a son of [[Polish Jewish]] immigrants Abraham and Bertha (Schorr) Wallach from [[Przemyśl]]. He had a brother and two sisters.<ref name=Ross/> He and his family were among only a few Jews in an otherwise Italian American neighborhood.<ref name="forward">{{cite news| url= http://www.forward.com/articles/5104/ |title= Eli Wallach Knows His Lines| website= Forward.com| first= Masha |last= Leon |date= August 6, 2004| access-date= May 27, 2020}}</ref><ref name="film reference">{{cite web |url= http://www.filmreference.com/film/80/Eli-Wallach.html |title=Eli Wallach Biography (1915–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=January 2, 2011}}</ref> His parents owned Bertha's Candy Store.<ref name= Ross /> Wallach graduated in 1936 from the [[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas]] with a degree in history.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/alumni/overview.php |title= Alumni in the News: Eli Wallach to receive lifetime achievement award| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110211085927/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/alumni/overview.php |archive-date= February 11, 2011 | publisher= Department of History, University of Texas, Austin}}</ref> In a later interview, Wallach said that he learned to ride horses while in Texas, explaining that he liked Texas because "It opened my eyes to the word ''friendship...'' You could rely on people. If they gave you their word, that was it&nbsp;... It was an education."<ref name= Texas>{{cite news| work= The Alcalde| title= Texas| date= March 2000}}</ref>

Two years later he earned a master of arts degree in education from the [[City College of New York]].<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2010/10/19/marian-seldes-eli-wallach-to-receive-ccny-alumni-finley-award/ |title= Marian Seldes, Eli Wallach to Receive CCNY Alumni Finley Award| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120109100750/http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2010/10/19/marian-seldes-eli-wallach-to-receive-ccny-alumni-finley-award/ |archive-date= January 9, 2012 | publisher= City College of New York| date= October 19, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url= https://movies.nytimes.com/person/74381/Eli-Wallach/biography | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080919055646/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/74381/Eli-Wallach/biography | url-status= dead | archive-date= September 19, 2008 | department= Movies & TV Dept. | work= [[The New York Times]] | author= Hal Erickson | author-link= Hal Erickson (author) | date= 2008 |title= Biography: Eli Wallach}}</ref> He gained his first method acting experience at the [[Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre]] in New York City, where he studied under [[Sanford Meisner]].<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.cbsnews.com/news/eli-wallach-veteran-actor-dead-at-98/ |title= Eli Wallach, veteran actor, dead at 98| work= CBS News| date= June 25, 2014}}</ref> There, according to Wallach, actors were forced to "unlearn" all their physical and vocal mannerisms, while traditional stage etiquette and "singsong" deliveries were "utterly excised" from his classroom.<ref>{{cite book| last= Gordon| first= Mel| title= Stanislavsky in America: An Actor's Workbook| publisher= Routledge |year= 2010| page= 178}}</ref>