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Discretion is advised. The Hello and welcome to Cinema Story Origins, episode 2A, The Secret of Nim, Part 1. You're going to be. Oh, Robert Leslie Conley was born January 11th, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York.

He was the third of five children born to Leslie Marsland and Agnes O'Brien Conley.

Both parents were well educated. Agnes O'Brien came from a well-to-do Irish Catholic family of

lawyers and doctors in Rochester, New York and was a graduate of Smith College.

Leslie Marzlin Conley graduated from the University of Rochester and met his wife when both were school teachers in Rochester.

By the time Robert was born, however, his father had given up teaching for a job as a reporter

on the New York Tribune.

When he was still a baby, the family moved to Amityville, Long Island, and Robert grew up there attending

a parochial school and later Amityville High School.

As a child, he was precocious and showed musical talent, but he was also sickly and fearful.

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