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REAL Names of Celebrities
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#25re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/18/04 at 2:02pmBernadette Peters - Bernadette Lazzara Updated On: 12/18/04 at 02:02 PM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#26re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/18/04 at 2:22pmLoretta Swit was originally Loretta Switcowski.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#27re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/18/04 at 2:50pm
Diane Keaton is really Diane Hall.
Michael Keaton is really Michael Douglas (already taken).
Buster Keaton's last name really was Keaton.
Michael J. Fox couldn't be Michael Fox because there already was one. He didn't want to use his real middle initial "A", becuase he feared folks would joke "Michael - A Fox!" He got the "J" from one of his idols, character actor Michael J. Pollard (the original Hugo in Bye Bye Birdie).
The Grovers Corners Yenta
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/3/04
#28re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:42pmShelley Winters was Shirley Shrift, George Burns was Nathan Birnbaum, Jack Benny was Benny Kubelinsky, Irving Berlin was Israel Baline, Woody Allen was Alan Konigsberg, Beverly Sills was Beverly Silverman. Interesting note about Linda Lovelace: She was married to one of my next door neighbors from the Marciano family in Bellport, New York. We used to see her all the time. It was a very small town and people really used to talk about it.
"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.
#29re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:48pmCaroline-Q-or-Tboo is actually Sam M.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Spooky
Featured Actor Joined: 7/20/04
#30re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/18/04 at 11:04pm
small changes
Julia Roberts first name is actually Julie
Jodie Foster's first name is Alicia
Brad Pitt's first name is actually William
Nicolas Cage's last name is actually Coppola
Angelina Jolie (her last name is legally Voight)
Vivien Leigh =Vivian Mary Hartley
Carole Lombard=Jane Peters
Meg Ryan=Margaret Mary Emily Ann Hyra
from the ballet world
Julie Kent (ABT) name is actually Julie Cox
Rachel Rutherford (NYCB) last name is actually Englund
Updated On: 12/18/04 at 11:04 PM
#31re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/18/04 at 11:17pm
Ballet Dancers? Spooky!
Dame Alicia Markova - Lilian Alicia Marks
Margot Fonteyn - Peggy Hookham
Suzanne Farrell - Roberta Sue Fickers
Deanna Durbin - Edna Mae Durbin.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
Blair
Broadway Star Joined: 11/4/03
Spooky
Featured Actor Joined: 7/20/04
#33re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:09amThanks Glebb! I forgot about those ballet dancers (sacrilege, I know)
#34re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 11:48ami had no idea of all these name changes. where did the idea of Whoopi goldberg come up haha. name some more the only 1 i definatley knew was marshall mathers
A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it,
but all she really dreams is to make someone
else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer.
And that is so beautiful-Anonymous
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#35re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 11:53amAlbert Brooks is really Albert Einstein.
#37re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 6:08pmWalter Matthau = Walter Matuschanskayasky (not his real last name, I believe he used this name for some time)
Racetrack
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#38re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:52pmNatalie Wood=Natalia or Natasha Zakharenko(in Russia, but when they came to America they changed their last name to Gurdin).
"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long"-Edgar in King Lear
SmrtAss
Understudy Joined: 6/6/04
#39re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:07pm
Engelbert Humperdinck's real name is Arnold George Dorsey. (There was a German composer named Engelbert Humperdinck and that's where he got the idea for the name.)
Sandra Dee's real name is Alexandra Zuck. Her late ex-husband,
singer Bobby Darin, was born Walden Robert Cassotto.
Updated On: 12/19/04 at 08:07 PM
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#40re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:19pm
Rita Moreno = Rosita Dolores Alverio
Raquel Welch = Raquel Tejada
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#41re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:20pm
Jennifer Lopez is really, well, um... Jennifer Lopez
Susan Sarandon = Susan Abigail Tomalin
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#43re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:22pmHmm I think the whole world knows this already and she's not really a celebrity, but Kristin Chenoweth is actually Kristi Don Chenoweth.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#44re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:25pm
Hey, Marquise, Stockard Channing played a character called "Susan" in the TV Series "Just Friends" (1979)
Did you know that? Eerie, huh?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#45re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:25pmDefinitely not a celebrity, but Kearran Giovanni's real name is Kearran Mire.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#46re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:27pmof course i did. . .and then they changed the show's title to "THE STOCKARD CHANNING SHOW" and then. . . it was cancelled.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#47re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:29pm
Oh Marquise,
OF COURSE you knew that--what was I thinking trying to trip YOU up? 
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#48re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:08pm
Don't shoot!
Adena Mentzel = Idina Menzel
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#49re: REAL Names of Celebrities
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:27pmTom Cruise = Thomas Mapother III
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