Wallace Chewning was raised in Randolph, New York where his father, Charles
Dudley Chewning was a plant supervisor for Borden's Milk Company. Afer
his father's early death, he and his brother and two sisters moved,
with their mother, Lucile, to Venice, California. It was 1912 and Dad
was ten years old. The movie business was young and so was he when he
began his career as a best boy.
