Editing Lew Grade (section)

==Early life==
Grade was born in [[Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia Oblast|Tokmak]], [[Berdyansky Uyezd]], [[Taurida Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]] (now [[Ukraine]]), to Isaak and Olga Winogradsky.<ref name="Hoge" /> In 1912, when Grade was five years old, his [[Jewish]] family escaped the [[pogrom]]s by emigrating from [[Odessa]], via [[Berlin]] to London and resettled on [[Brick Lane]] near [[Shoreditch]] in the [[East End of London]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan Warwick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VH94S39CRFYC&pg=PA106 |title=The East End: Four Centuries of London Life |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=0813528267 |location=[[New Brunswick, New Jersey]] |page=106 |author-link=Alan Warwick Palmer |access-date=31 December 2013 |orig-year=1989}}</ref><ref name="Raines">{{Cite news |last=Raines |first=Howell |date=17 April 1988 |title=Lew Grade, at 81, Retains His Zest for a Deal |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/17/arts/lew-grade-at-81-retains-his-zest-for-a-deal.html |access-date=3 August 2020}}.</ref>

Isaak worked as a [[Trouser press|trouser-presser]] while his three sons (Grade and his younger brothers, Bernard (later [[Bernard Delfont]]) and [[Leslie Grade|Leslie]]) attended the Rochelle Street Elementary School near [[Shoreditch]], where [[Yiddish]] was spoken by 90% of the pupils. For two years the Winogradskys lived in rented rooms at the north end of [[Brick Lane]], before moving to the nearby [[Boundary Estate]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 &#124; British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol11/pp126-132 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref>

===Early professional life===
At the age of 15, Grade became an agent for a clothing company, and shortly afterwards started his own business. In 1926, he was declared [[Charleston (dance)|Charleston]] Champion of the World at a dancing competition at the [[Royal Albert Hall]].<ref name="Hoge" /> [[Fred Astaire]] was one of the judges.<ref name="Economist_obit" /> Grade subsequently became a professional dancer going by the name Louis Grad; he changed this name to Lew Grade, which came from a Paris reporter's typing error that Grade liked and decided to keep.<ref name="TH">[http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/lewgrade.htm Television Greats: Lew Grade], Television Heaven entry.</ref> He was signed as a dancer by Joe Collins (father of [[Jackie Collins|Jackie]] and [[Joan Collins]]) in 1931.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 April 1988 |title=Joe Collins, ''Dynasty'' Star's Father |work=Chicago Tribune |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1988/04/02/page/8/article/joe-collins-dynasty-stars-father/ |access-date=12 August 2017}}</ref> Decades later, the octogenarian Lord Grade once danced the Charleston at a party [[Arthur Ochs Sulzberger]] gave in New York.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brozan |first=Nadine |date=22 May 1992 |title=CHRONICLE |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/22/style/chronicle-921792.html |access-date=31 December 2013}}</ref>