Editing Ali MacGraw (section)

==Early life==
MacGraw was born in [[Pound Ridge, New York]],<ref>{{Cite book|first=Rick|last=Farrant|title=Somewhere Bluebirds Fly|year=2020|publisher= Dorrance Publishing Company|isbn=9781648042935|page=30}}</ref> the daughter of [[commercial art]]ists Frances (''née'' Klein)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGB8-J45|work=[[FamilySearch]]|title=Person Details for Frances Macgraw|access-date=December 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212093557/https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGB8-J45|archive-date=February 12, 2015}}</ref> and Richard MacGraw.<ref name=Weller/> She has one brother, Dick, an artist.<ref name=Weller/> Her mother was Hungarian Jewish, the daughter of emigrants from [[Budapest]], Hungary. MacGraw's mother chose not to disclose her ancestry to Ali's father, instead professing ignorance about it. "I think Daddy was bigoted," MacGraw has said.<ref name=Weller/><ref name=asl>{{cite news| last=Kleiner| first=Dick| title=Ingenue Star Ali McGraw Is Selective About Parts| publisher=Tuscaloosa News| date=April 12, 1969| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ayceAAAAIBAJ&pg=5082,2539149|access-date=August 20, 2010}}</ref><ref name="ref11">{{cite news|last=Bykofsky|first=Stuart D.|title=Ali MacGraw: A Star by Chance|work=[[Philadelphia Daily News]]|page=60|date=February 4, 1983|url=https://newspapers.com/image/185939211/|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishtampa.com/jews-in-the-news/jews-in-the-news-fred-savage-herman-wouk-and-ali-macgraw|title=Jews in the News: Fred Savage, Herman Wouk and Ali MacGraw|website=JewishTampa.com}}</ref>

Her mother was considered a "pioneer" as an artist, who had taught in Paris before settling in [[Greenwich Village]]. Her parents married when her mother was nearing 35: "My gorgeous father: a combination of [[Tyrone Power]] and a mystery, a brilliant artist and a brain beyond brains."<ref name=Weller/> He was born in New Jersey with his childhood spent in an orphanage. He ran away to sea when he was 16 and studied art in [[Munich]]. MacGraw adds, "Daddy was frightened and really, really angry. He never forgave his real parents for giving him up."<ref name=Weller/> As an adult, he constantly suppressed the rage he built up against his parents.<ref name=Weller/> She described her father as "violent".<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=April 3, 2006|pages=69&ndash;70|url=https://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/16516/|title=A Long-Lost Love|first=Meryl|last=Gordon}}</ref>

MacGraw attended [[Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Connecticut)|Rosemary Hall]] in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]] and graduated from [[Wellesley College]] in [[Wellesley, Massachusetts]] in 1960.<ref name=Weller/>