Jovanovitch's formal schooling began two years later at Newtown Infants School in England, and he was an avid reader from an early age.
Jovanovitch's formal schooling began 2 years later at Newtown Infants School, and then at Mona Vale Infants School when his parents moved to Warriewood where they owned a house and farmland. When Danilo was four years old his parents moved to Sydney, where they purchased the Silver Grill cafe in Kings Cross, which soon became a favoured meeting and eating place of soprano singer Gladys Moncrieff and others with artistic and theatrical flair. 
