Editing Kenneth Anger (section)

=== 1927–1936: Early life ===
Kenneth Anger was born as Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer on February 3, 1927, in [[Santa Monica]], California. His family was [[Presbyterian]], but he became more interested in the [[occult]].<ref name="esquire.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/news/a5483/kenneth-anger/|title=Kenneth Anger: Where the Bodies Are Buried|date=January 3, 2014}}</ref> His father, Wilbur Anglemyer, was of [[German American|German]] ancestry and was born in [[Troy, Ohio|Troy]], Ohio, while his disabled mother, Lillian Coler (the older of the pair), had [[English American|English]] ancestry. Anger's parents met at [[Ohio State University]] and after marrying had their first child, Jean Anglemyer, in 1918, followed by a second, Robert "Bob" Anglemyer, in 1921. That year they moved to Santa Monica to be near Lillian's mother, Bertha Coler, who had recently moved there. There Wilbur got a job as an electrical engineer at [[Douglas Aircraft]], earning enough money that they could live comfortably as a middle-class family.<ref>{{harvnb|Landis|1995|p=5}}</ref>

Kenneth Anger, their third and final child, was born in 1927. Growing up, he did not get along with his parents or siblings. His brother Bob later claimed that as the youngest child, Kenneth had been spoiled by his mother and grandmother and became somewhat "bratty". His grandmother Bertha was a strong influence on the young Kenneth and supported the family financially during the [[Great Depression]]. It was she who first took Kenneth to the cinema, to see a [[double bill]] of ''[[The Singing Fool]]'' and ''[[Thunder Over Mexico]].'' Bertha encouraged his artistic interests and later moved into a house in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] with another woman, Miss Diggy, who also encouraged Kenneth.<ref>{{harvnb|Landis|1995|pp=6–8}}</ref> He developed an early interest in film and enjoyed reading the movie tie-in [[Big Little Book series|Big Little books]]. Kenneth later said, "I was a child prodigy who never got smarter."<ref>{{harvnb|Hunter|2002|p=105}}</ref> He remembered attending the Santa Monica Cotillion, where he met [[Shirley Temple]], with whom he once danced.<ref>{{harvnb|Landis|1995|pp=9–11}}</ref>

Anger claimed in ''Hollywood Babylon II'' that he played the Changeling Prince in the 1935 [[Warner Brothers]] film ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', but the character was played by a girl named Sheila Brown.<ref>Vieira, Mark A., ''Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince'' (2010), p. 336</ref> Anger's unofficial biographer, Bill Landis, remarked in 1995 that the Changeling Prince was definitely "Anger as a child; visually, he's immediately recognizable".<ref>{{harvnb|Landis|1995|p=12}}</ref>