Early Life
Grauman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Jacob and Irene Grauman, both children of German immigrants who married after settling in the United States. His father, Jacob Grauman, was president of a film distributing company.
In his early years, Grauman lived in Shorewood Village, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, and later moved Arizona where he attended the University of Arizona. He served for four years in the United States Army Air Force flying 56 combat missions over Europe in a B-25 in the Twelfth Air Force and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross before moving to California, where his mother was living at the time.
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