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Post by marianne48 on Jul 28, 2022 17:35:41 GMT
Maybe they weren't very well-known, but they had some memorable names. For instance, this actress:
Cheerio Meredith--mainly appearing in bit character parts, she changed her name from Edwina (no surprise) for this unique cereal-evocative moniker.
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 28, 2022 17:41:33 GMT
Lola Falana
Acquanetta (the “Venezuelan Volcano” according to publicity actually born Mildred something from the Midwest))
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 28, 2022 21:02:58 GMT
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 28, 2022 21:19:23 GMT
Zasu Pitts  Born: Eliza Susan Pitts IMDb trivia .... more likely about a family nickname that stuck |
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 28, 2022 21:39:50 GMT
Birth Name Swoosie Trust Kurtz  |
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 28, 2022 21:41:21 GMT
There's always Slim Pickens and Chill Wills. And since youth I've had a soft spot for Denver Pyle. Even though I've enjoyed performances from both these guys, the names Channing Tatum and Justin Timberlake, for some reason, always got on my nerves.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 28, 2022 22:07:07 GMT
There's always Slim Pickens Once upon a time, heard him tell this tale (tall or not ?) on some talk show or 'tother ... Birth Name: Louis Berton Lindley Jr.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 28, 2022 22:10:01 GMT
There's always Chill Wills. Birth Name: Theodore Childress Wills
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jul 28, 2022 22:47:28 GMT
Rider Strong
Assumed it was a jokey, p*rn-evocative stage name, but actual name at birth.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 28, 2022 22:49:28 GMT
RIP TORN
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Post by staggerstag on Jul 29, 2022 1:36:54 GMT
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 29, 2022 1:41:11 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 29, 2022 2:18:48 GMT
Cobie Smulders.  Indeed she does. |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 29, 2022 6:30:32 GMT
Joyzelle Joyner American dancer and actress who appeared mostly uncredited and in small bit parts in thirty films between 1925 and 1935... Joyzelle Joyner played twin Queens of opposite temperaments, Loo Loo and Boo Boo her biggest part in Just Imagine (1930)
Joyner gained much notoriety for her brief appearance in The Sign of the Cross (1932). Warming her into life, she performs the "Dance of the Naked Moon".
The pre-code scene was cut by the censors from the re-released 1935 version and not seen again until the 1993 restoration of the original film...
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 29, 2022 14:34:17 GMT
There is another that belongs on this thread that we have heard and spoken so much and for so long that we don’t even consider it as an unusual name. But if you think about it… Meryl Streep . |
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 29, 2022 14:56:38 GMT
I like the suggestion that Zazu Pitts was working with a childhood nickname ( Penn Guinn ). That is certainly true for Lalla Ward (Sarah Jill Ward) who is famous as the Time Lord Romana for two seasons on “Doctor Who” from 1979-1981. She had a short marriage to Tom Baker, her co-star as The Doctor, and then 24 years married to Richard Dawkins before separating. She retired from acting after marrying Dawkins.  |
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 29, 2022 15:22:41 GMT
There is another that belongs on this thread that we have heard and spoken so much and for so long that we don’t even consider it as an unusual name. But if you think about it… Meryl Streep . ditto  Merle Oberon
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 29, 2022 15:25:52 GMT
"Mother Walton" is a woman named Michael  Side note: I have a neighbor with seven kids* .,.. all of their middle names are "Michael" including the girls. *All born post The Waltons .. no idea if there is a connection or not  |
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 29, 2022 16:15:10 GMT
"Mother Walton" is a woman named Michael Side note: I have a neighbor with seven kids* .,.. all of their middle names are "Michael" including the girls. *All born post The Waltons .. no idea if there is a connection or not Cute-as-a-bug JEFF DONNELL appeared in several films noir as the “good girl,” often a wife or best friend. In Night Editor (1946), she was the wife of William Gargan who (to me, inexplicably) cheated on her with rich-bitch femme fatale Janis Carter. She is Frank Lovejoy’s wife in In A Lonely Place (1950) where her often low-key approach to acting makes it easy to miss her reactions to Dixon Steele’s pronouncements when they have him over for dinner. She also shows up in Sweet Smell Of Success, The Power of the Whistler, and The Blue Gardenia. She played Gidget’s mother in two movies. After the 1960s, her acting (with two exceptions) was exclusively on television. She died in 1988 at the young age of 66. 
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 29, 2022 16:19:09 GMT
mikef6 OT Jeff Donnell reminds me a bit of Patricia Hitchcock ... not enough to confuse them but ....  maybe ?
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