Editing Kevin McCarthy (actor) (section)

==Early life==
McCarthy was born in [[Seattle]], Washington, the son of Roy Winfield McCarthy and Martha Therese (née Preston).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/1/Kevin-McCarthy.html |title=Kevin McCarthy Biography (1914-) |publisher=film reference |access-date=April 26, 2015}}</ref> His father was descended from a wealthy Irish American family based in [[Minnesota]]. His mother was born in Washington State to a [[Protestant]] father and a non-observant Jewish mother; McCarthy's mother converted to Roman Catholicism before her marriage.<ref name=kni>{{cite web| title=Mary McCarthy, age 11, returns to Seattle to live with her maternal grandparents in 1923.| publisher=HistoryLink.org| url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=pf_output.cfm&file_id=8425| access-date=September 12, 2010}}</ref> He was the brother of author [[Mary McCarthy (author)|Mary McCarthy]], and a distant cousin of U.S. Senator and presidential candidate [[Eugene McCarthy]] of Minnesota. His parents both died in the [[Spanish flu|1918 flu pandemic]], and the four children went to live with relatives in [[Minneapolis]]. After five years of near-[[Charles Dickens|Dickensian]] mistreatment, described in Mary McCarthy's memoirs, the children were separated: Mary lived with their maternal grandparents, and Kevin and his younger brothers were raised by relatives in Minneapolis.<ref name="NYT091310" /> McCarthy graduated in 1932 from [[Campion High School]] in [[Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin|Prairie du Chien]], Wisconsin,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.campion-knights.org/Notables/ |title=Campion Graduate Notables... |access-date=April 26, 2015}}</ref> then attended the [[University of Minnesota]], where he appeared in his first play, Shakespeare's ''[[Henry IV, Part 1]]'', and discovered a love of acting.