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==Early life== Calhern was born Carl Henry Vogt in Brooklyn, New York, in 1895, the son of German immigrants Eugene Adolf Vogt and Hubertina Friese Vogt. He had one known sibling, a sister.<ref name="fga">{{cite journal|last1=Dennis|first1=Ken|title=Louis Calhern: Distinguished Gentleman|journal=[[Films of the Golden Age]]|date=Summer 2011|issue=65|pages=58β68}}</ref> His father was a tobacco dealer.<ref name="ml">{{cite news|title=Greetings|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4303743/mexico_ledger/|newspaper=Mexico Evening Ledger|date=February 18, 1952|location=Mexico, Missouri|page=6|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = February 13, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref> His family left New York while he was in elementary school and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was raised. While playing high school football, a stage manager from a touring [[repertory theatre|theatrical stock company]] noticed the tall, handsome youth and hired him as a bit player. Another source states "[[Grace George]] hired his entire high school football team as supers for a Shakespearean play."<ref name=ml/>
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