IT'S A GIVEN (NAME)
You'll need to do a lot of homework to track down the given names of Hollywood's famous. I think we all know that Rock Hudson and Kirk Douglas adopted their names for their acting careers. Rock was known as Roy Scherer and Kirk started life as Isadore Demsky. Some name changes are surprising in that they appear to trade one suitable name for another, like in the instances of Janet Cole who became Kim Hunter and Jeanette Morrison who would become known as Janet Leigh.
Orson Bean! You would think that was his given name. Of course, many notable females were recorded with their husbands and using their married names. Even when there was no name change some American notables were recorded incorrectly by census-takers misspellings |
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