Ever wondered if the stars from yesterday were really born with names like Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, James Cagney, Carol Lombard, or Clark Gable? Well, some of them were and some of them weren't.
Changing the names of actors is a reminder of how much control the film studios had on them. It also shows how much simply changing a persons name can alter how we may view them.
Here are some classic films stars and their real birth names:
Rita Hayworth = Margarita Carmen Cansino
Cary Grant = Archibald Leach
Barbara Stanwyck = Ruby Katherine Stevens
John Wayne = Marion Robert Morrison
Lauren Bacall = Betty Joan Perske
John Garfield = Jacob Julius Garfinkle
Veronica Lake = Constance Frances Marie Ockelman
Tony Curtis = Bernard Schwartz
Mary Pickford = Gladys Louise Smith
Kirk Douglas = Issur Danielovitch
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