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=== Education === Heston frequently recounted that while growing up in [[northern Michigan]] in a sparsely populated area, he often wandered in the forest, "acting" out characters from books he had read.<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/319357/private-screenings-charlton-heston Private Screenings: Charlton Heston (1998)] . Tcm.com; retrieved November 14, 2011.</ref> Later, in high school, he enrolled in [[New Trier High School|New Trier]]'s drama program, playing the lead role in the amateur silent [[16 mm film]] adaptation of ''[[Peer Gynt]]'', from the [[Henrik Ibsen|Ibsen]] [[Peer Gynt|play]], by future film activist [[David Bradley (director)|David Bradley]] released in 1941. From the Winnetka Community Theatre (or the Winnetka Dramatist's Guild, as it was then known) in which he was active, he earned a drama scholarship to [[Northwestern University]].<ref name="Krause">{{cite news|newspaper=Northwestern Magazine |access-date=December 2, 2013|title=New Theater Honors Alvina Krause|date=Spring 2010|url=http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2010/campuslife/krausestudio.html|archive-date=April 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409045158/http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2010/campuslife/krausestudio.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=December 15, 2004|title=Ms. Alvina Krause|first=James|last=Goode|access-date=December 2, 2013|url=http://library.bloomu.edu/Archives/SC/BTE/alvinakrause.htm|publisher=[[Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania]]|archive-date=February 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207063537/http://library.bloomu.edu/Archives/SC/BTE/alvinakrause.htm|url-status=live}} Please see also {{URL|http://www.bte.org/alvina-krause}}</ref> He attended college from 1941 to 1943 and among his acting teachers was [[Alvina Krause]].<ref name="Krause"/> Several years later, Heston teamed up with Bradley to produce the first sound version of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Julius Caesar (1950 film)|Julius Caesar]]'', in which Heston played [[Mark Antony]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Brode | first=Douglas | date=April 27, 2000 | location=Oxford | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | page=102 | title=Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ky-hEnhihkkC&pg=PA102 | access-date=April 3, 2018 | isbn=978-0-199-72802-2 | archive-date=December 15, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215222509/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ky-hEnhihkkC&pg=PA102 | url-status=live }}</ref>
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