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Friday, March 03, 2017

Real names of some celebrities

We know them as Doris Day, Woody Allen, etc. But that's not what their parents called them. Here are some celebs' real names.

Muddy Waters; McKinley Morganfield
Liberace: Wladziu Valentino Liberace
Wolfman Jack: Bob Smith
Stan Laurel: Arthur Stanley Jefferson
Dean Martin: Dino Crocetti
Twiggy: Leslie Hornby
Peter Lorre: Laszlo Lowenstein
Jerry Lewis: Joseph Levitch
Lauren Bacall: Betty Perski
James Stewart: Stewart Granger
Yves Montand: Ivo Livi
Shelley Winters: Shirley Schrift
Van Morrison: George Ivan
W. C. Fields: W. C. Dunkenfield
Roy Rogers: Leonard Slye
Charles Bronson: Charles Buchinsky
Irving Berlin: Israel Baline
Stevie Wonder: Steveland Judkins Morris
Doris Day: Doris Kappelhoff
Boris Karloff: William Henry Pratt
Natalie Wood: Natasha Gurdin
Tammy Wynette: Wynette Pugh
Kirk Douglas: Issur Danielovitch
Rock Hudson: Roy Fitzgerald
Sophia Loren: Sophia Scicolone
Tony Curtis: Bernie Schwartz
John Wayne: Marion Michael Morrison
David Bowie: David Jones
Greta Garbo: Greta Gustafsson
Woody Allen: Allen Konigsberg
Fred Astaire: Fred Austerlitz
Lucille Ball: Dianne Belmont
Anne Bancroft: Anne Italiano
Jack Benny: Joseph Kubelsky
Yul Brynner: Taidje Kahn, Jr.
George Burns: Nat Birnbaum
Michael Caine: Maurice Mickelwhite
Joan Crawford: Lucille Le Sueur
Rodney Dangerfield: John Cohen
John Denver: Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.
Werner Erhard: Jack Rosenberg
Douglas Fairbanks: Julius Ullman
Redd Foxx: John Sanford
Mel Brooks: Mel Kaminsky

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