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==Early life== Peter Bogdanovich ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Петар Богдановић}}{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}) was born in [[Kingston, New York]], the son of Herma (née Robinson) and Borislav Bogdanovich, a pianist and painter.<ref>{{cite web|title=Legacy: A Family Portrait|url=https://www.bogdanovichcollection.com/family-tree|access-date=January 7, 2022|website=The Bogdanovich Collection}}</ref><ref name="Variety">{{cite magazine|last=Chagollan|first=Steve|title=Peter Bogdanovich, Iconic Director of 'Last Picture Show' and 'Paper Moon,' Dies at 82|url=https://variety.com/2022/film/obituaries-people-news/peter-bogdanovich-dead-dies-director-1235148166/|date=January 6, 2022|access-date=January 6, 2022|magazine=Variety}}</ref> His father was of Serbian descent and his mother was of Austrian Jewish descent. Bogdanovich was fluent in Serbian, having learned it before English.<ref name="NYTobit">{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Margalit|title= Peter Bogdanovich, Director Whose Career Was a Hollywood Drama, Dies at 82|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/movies/peter-bogdanovich-dead.html|date=January 6, 2022|access-date=January 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106190013/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/movies/peter-bogdanovich-dead.html|archive-date=January 6, 2022|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Tonguette |first=Peter |title=Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAUbBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72 |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |year=2015 |page=72 |isbn=978-1-62674-375-5}}</ref> He had an older brother who died in an accident in 1938, at eighteen months of age, after a pot of boiling soup fell on him, though Bogdanovich did not learn about his brother until he was seven and did not know the circumstances of his death until he was an adult.<ref name = Goldman>{{cite news|url = https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/peter-bogdanovich-in-conversation.html|title = In Conversation: Peter Bogdanovich|work = [[New York (magazine)|Vulture]]|publisher = [[Vox Media]]|last = Goldman|first = Andrew|date = March 4, 2019|accessdate = January 7, 2022}}</ref> His parents both arrived in the U.S. in May 1939 on visitors' visas, along with his mother's immediate family, three months before the onset of World War II.<ref name="Variety"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20131003/ENT03/310030002/Director-comes-full-circle-Kingston-native-Peter-Bogdanovich-honored-fest?nclick_check=1|title=Poughkeepsiejournal.com |publisher=Poughkeepsiejournal.com|access-date=February 13, 2014}}</ref> In 1952, when he was twelve, Bogdanovich began keeping a record of every film he saw on index cards, complete with reviews; he continued to do so until 1970.<ref name="THR-Death"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Singer |first1=Matt |title=From the Wire: Bogdanovich's Card File |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2013/03/from-the-wire-bogdanovichs-card-file-128191/ |website=IndieWire |access-date=January 7, 2021 |language=en |date=March 29, 2013}}</ref> He saw up to four hundred films a year.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Harrison |title=Peter Bogdanovich, Oscar-nominated director of 'The Last Picture Show,' dies at 82 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/01/06/peter-bogdanovich-dead/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=January 10, 2022 |date=January 6, 2022}}</ref> He graduated from New York City's [[Collegiate School (New York City)|Collegiate School]] in 1957 and studied acting at the [[Stella Adler Studio of Acting|Stella Adler Conservatory]].<ref name="NYTobit" />
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