Editing Irwin Allen (section)

===Early life===
Irwin Allen was born in New York City, the son of poor [[Russian Jews|Jewish]] immigrants (Joseph Cohen and Eva Davis) from Russia.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Cushman|first1=Marc|last2=Alfred|first2=Mark|title=Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea|publisher=Jacobs Brown Press|url=http://www.jacobsbrownmediagroup.com/voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea.html|quote=Still, it all began with Allen, the son of poor Russian-Jewish immigrants, and his series called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.|access-date=January 21, 2018|archive-date=January 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122072118/http://www.jacobsbrownmediagroup.com/voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He majored in journalism and advertising at [[Columbia University]] after attending [[City College of New York]] for a year. He left college because of financial difficulties caused by the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]].