Editing Tod Browning (section)

==Early life==
{{quote box|width=30em|bgcolor=cornsilk|fontsize=100%|salign=center|quote= "A non-conformist within his family, the alternative society of the circus shaped his disdain for normal mainstream society... circus life, for Browning, represented a flight from conventional lifestyles and responsibilities, which later manifested itself in a love of liquor, gambling and fast cars." — Film historian Jon Towlson in ''Diabolique Magazine'', November 27, 2017<ref>Towlson, 2017 Part 2: Composite quote from same source. And:<br />Towlson, 2017 Part 1: "Browning's background as a working-class boy in Kentucky [and] his subsequent flight from a Baptist upbringing into the world of the circus..."</ref>}}

Charles Albert Browning, Jr., was born in [[Louisville, Kentucky]] on July 12, 1880,<ref name="TBB">{{cite web|url=https://britannica.com/biography/tod-browning|title=Tod Browning (film director)}}</ref><ref name="TB"/> the second son of Charles Albert and Lydia Browning. Charles Albert Sr., "a bricklayer, carpenter and machinist," provided his family with a middle-class and [[Baptists|Baptist]] household. Browning's uncle, the baseball star [[Pete Browning|Pete "Louisville Slugger" Browning]] saw his sobriquet conferred on the [[Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory|iconic baseball bat]]. Like his uncle, Browning was alcoholic from a young age.<ref>Alford, 1995: "Browning's baseball-playing uncle Pete was responsible for the development of the [[Louisville slugger]]..." And: "Unfortunately for his biographers, outside of anecdote, little evidence remains of Tod's boyhood life and family relations."</ref>