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Real Names of Movie Stars - The Classic Hollywood Edition
During Hollywood's Golden Age, studios often changed the names of their actors. Do you know which stars were born with these less-than-stellar names?
- David Kaminsky
- David Niven
- Danny Kaye
- Danny Thomas
- Archibald Leach
- Gregory Peck
- Cary Grant
- James Mason
- Rosita Alverio
- Rita Moreno
- Rita Hayworth
- Raquel Welch
- Jerome Silberman
- Woody Allen
- Mel Brooks
- Gene Wilder
- Bernice Frenkel
- Thelma Ritter
- Shelley Winters
- Beatrice Arthur
- Tula Ellis Finklea
- Judy Holliday
- Cyd Charisse
- Betty Grable
- Walter Matuschanskayasky
- Walter Matthau
- Walter Pigeon
- Wallace Beery
- Lucille Collier
- Lucille Ball
- Betty Hutton
- Ann Miller
- Issur Danielovitch
- Robert Mitchum
- Orson Welles
- Kirk Douglas
- Marion Michael Morrisson
- Robert Taylor
- John Wayne
- Alan Ladd
- Ruby Stevens
- Ruby Keeler
- June Allyson
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Margarita Cansino
- Rita Hayworth
- Margaret O'Brien
- Chita Rivera
- Betty Joan Perske
- Lauren Bacall
- Betty Garrett
- Joan Blondell
- Richard Walter Jenkins
- Richard Widmark
- Richard Crenna
- Richard Burton
- Lucille Fay LeSeur
- Fay Wray
- Jean Arthur
- Joan Crawford
- Bernard Schwartz
- Rock Hudson
- Tony Curtis
- Tab Hunter
- Frances Gumm
- Judy Garland
- Deanna Durbin
- Kathryn Grayson
- Julia Elizabeth Wells
- Julie Harris
- Julie Christie
- Julie Andrews
- Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.
- Rock Hudson
- Roy Scheider
- Harry Morgan
- Jane Alice Peters
- Jane Powell
- Carole Lombard
- Jean Arthur
