Editing Ina Balin (section)

==Early years==
Balin was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents. Her father, Sam Rosenberg, was a dancer, singer, and comedian who worked the [[Borscht Belt]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Marzlock |first=Ron |date=2022-03-17 |title=Diversity worked well for Ina Balin, as for Queens |url=https://www.qchron.com/qboro/i_have_often_walked/diversity-worked-well-for-ina-balin-as-for-queens/article_8d60c1d1-1849-5633-8e77-4a8c89869fb9.html |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=Queens Chronicle |language=en}}</ref> He later quit show business to join his family's furrier business. Her mother was a Hungarian-born professional dancer who escaped a troubled family life by marrying at age 15. Sam Rosenberg was her third husband by age 21. They, too, divorced when Ina and her brother, Richard Balin, were still quite young. The siblings were placed in boarding schools until their mother married a fourth time, then to shoe magnate Harold Balin, who later adopted Ina and Richard.
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Balin graduated from high school at age 15 after having spent five years at a boarding school in Pennsylvania.<ref name="laj">{{cite news|last1=Battelle|first1=Phyllis|title=Ina Balin Thinks Lipstick Gets In Way, Won't Use It|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8962361/lubbock_avalanchejournal/|work=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal|date=October 6, 1961|location=Texas, Lubbock|page=7|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 15, 2017}} {{Open access}}</ref>