Editing Roger Corman (section)

== Early life and education ==
Corman was born in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], to Anne (née High) and William Corman, an engineer of [[Russian Jewish]] descent.<ref name=owe>{{Cite book|last=H.W. Wilson Company|title=Current Biography Yearbook|publisher=New York|year=1984}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bergan |first1=Ronald |title=Roger Corman obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/may/12/roger-corman-obituary |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=May 12, 2024 |access-date=July 19, 2024}}</ref> His younger brother, [[Gene Corman|Gene]], produced numerous films, sometimes in collaboration with Roger.<ref name=owe/> Corman was raised in his mother's Catholic faith.<ref>''How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime'', by Roger Corman, 1998, p. 4</ref>

Corman went to [[Beverly Hills High School]] and then to [[Stanford University]] to study industrial engineering. While at Stanford, Corman realized he did not want to be an engineer. He enlisted in the [[V-12 Navy College Training Program]] when he still had six months of study to complete. After serving in the [[United States Navy]] from 1944 to 1946, he returned to Stanford to finish his degree, receiving a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in [[industrial engineering]] in 1947.<ref name="STANFORDALUMNIMAGAZINE">[https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=29323 "The Award of a Lifetime for Roger Corman"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303000531/https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=29323 |date=March 3, 2021}}, ''Stanford Alumni Magazine'', January/February 2010.</ref> While at Stanford University, Corman was initiated in the fraternity [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]].

In 1948, he worked briefly at U.S. Electrical Motors on [[Slauson Avenue]] in Los Angeles, but his career in engineering lasted only four days; he began work on Monday and quit on Thursday, telling his boss "I've made a terrible mistake." Soon after that he found work at [[20th Century Fox]] as a messenger in the mail room, earning $32.50 per week.<ref>{{cite web|last=Holte|first=Michael Ned|title=Value Engineering: Roger Corman with his own Context|url=http://www.eastofborneo.org/articles/value-engineering-roger-corman-within-his-own-context|publisher=East of Borneo|access-date=May 24, 2012|archive-date=November 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120044946/https://eastofborneo.org/articles/value-engineering-roger-corman-within-his-own-context/|url-status=live}}</ref>