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Johanna and Hubert were married in [[Billings, Montana]], on July 7, 1890. Gladys's three older brothers—Donald Hubert Greene, Robert Brazier Greene, and Albert Sidney Greene<ref>1900 US Census, Plattsburgh, New York; and 1910 US Census, Cumberland, Maine.</ref>—were born in the West. Around 1897, Hubert moved his wife and three sons from Billings to Plattsburgh, so he could work as a photographer at the Woodward Studios on Clinton Street. Johanna gave birth to stillborn twins on April 1, 1898.
Two and a half years later, Johanna gave birth to Gladys. The product of a nomadic childhood, the future Jean Arthur lived at times in [[Saranac Lake, New York]]; [[Jacksonville, Florida]], where George Woodward, Hubert's Plattsburgh employer, opened a second studio; and [[Schenectady, New York]], where Hubert had grown up and where several members of his family still lived. The Greenes lived on and off in [[Westbrook, Maine]], from 1908 to 1915, while Gladys's father worked at Lamson Studios in [[Portland, Maine|Portland]]. Relocating in 1915 to New York City, the family settled in the [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]] neighborhood – at 573 West 159th Street – of upper [[Manhattan]], and Hubert worked at Ira L. Hill's photographic studio on Fifth Avenue.
Gladys dropped out of high school in her junior year due to a "change in family circumstances".<ref name="Oller 1997, p. 34">Oller 1997, p. 34.</ref> Presaging many of her later film roles, she worked as a stenographer on Bond Street in lower Manhattan during and after [[World War I]]. Both her father (at age 55, claiming to be 45) and siblings registered for the draft. Her brother Albert died in 1926 as a result of respiratory injuries suffered during a mustard gas attack during World War I.
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