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Post by mikef6 on Jul 29, 2022 16:49:58 GMT
mikef6 OT Jeff Donnell reminds me a bit of Patricia Hitchcock ... not enough to confuse them but .... maybe ? Yes, I can see it.
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Post by jimmywhale 🐋 on Jul 29, 2022 17:24:10 GMT
Elspeth Dudgeon and Tristram Coffin always give me pause.
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Post by phantomparticle on Jul 29, 2022 20:17:54 GMT
Tempe Pigott How is it pronounced? Damned if I know.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jul 29, 2022 20:30:29 GMT
Elspeth Dudgeon and Tristram Coffin always give me pause. She, it turns out played the old old man in The Old Dark House ! Elspeth Dudgeon ... Sir Roderick Femm (as John Dudgeon)
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 29, 2022 19:29:10 GMT
Had been thinking about starting a thread called "The Name Hall Of Fame" when I found this one (while searching for something else). Maybe you had to have been a football fan to truly appreciate this one: Rockne TarkingtonHe has a place in history as the only black actor to ever have a speaking part on The Andy Griffith Show.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 29, 2022 19:30:59 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… Benedict Cumberbatch
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Post by london777 on Aug 29, 2022 21:51:03 GMT
Zasu Pitts Born: Eliza Susan Pitts I was once compared to Brad Pitt (understandably enough) and my second wife (absurdly) to Jennifer Aniston. We were in the garden and heard our new neighbours talking to their guests. The latter asked 'What are your neighbours like?' Our neighbours replied 'The Pitts'.
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Post by marianne48 on Aug 30, 2022 0:33:20 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… Benedict Cumberbatch That name always sounds to me like a character out of Dickens.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Aug 30, 2022 3:23:25 GMT
Lily Franky
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 30, 2022 10:26:45 GMT
Dalila Di Lazarro Joy Bang Jo Ann Pflug Candy Darling
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 30, 2022 23:34:39 GMT
Yes, I am serious ... Yahoo Serious one of Australia's most successful independent conceptual artists and filmmakers of the 1980s and 1990s. Considered the first Australian to write, produce, direct and star in a major motion picture. He legally changed his name to "Yahoo Serious" in 1980 before his rise to fame... Young Einstein (1988) written, produced, directed by and starring Yahoo Serious.
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Post by marianne48 on Aug 31, 2022 0:52:03 GMT
David Letterman introducing Whoopi Goldberg to Yahoo Serious:
"Whoopi, Yahoo; Yahoo, Whoopi."
Sorry; his version wasn't a laugh riot, either.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 31, 2022 1:02:52 GMT
Yes, I am serious ... Yahoo Serious one of Australia's most successful independent conceptual artists and filmmakers of the 1980s and 1990s. Considered the first Australian to write, produce, direct and star in a major motion picture. He legally changed his name to "Yahoo Serious" in 1980 before his rise to fame... Young Einstein (1988) written, produced, directed by and starring Yahoo Serious.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 31, 2022 1:12:03 GMT
Had been thinking about starting a thread called "The Name Hall Of Fame" when I found this one (while searching for something else). My thread would have been restricted to real names only Tula Finklea
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 31, 2022 1:16:03 GMT
timshelboy Had no idea who this was until IMDb-ed the name Candy Darling.... noted the resemblance to Meryl Streep on a good hair and makeup day for Meryl.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 31, 2022 1:48:47 GMT
timshelboy Had no idea who this was until IMDb-ed the name Candy Darling.... noted the resemblance to Meryl Streep on a good air and makeup day for Meryl.
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Post by jervistetch on Aug 31, 2022 4:02:31 GMT
I always thought that Prunella Scales was a name that might have made it tough getting through grade school with.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 31, 2022 4:16:04 GMT
I always thought that Prunella Scales was a name that might have made it tough getting through grade school with. Birth name not much of an improvement : Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth Scales is her mum's maiden name ! Nickname : Pru
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Post by onethreetwo on Aug 31, 2022 4:54:44 GMT
Imogen Poots
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 31, 2022 7:09:41 GMT
timshelboy Had no idea who this was until IMDb-ed the name Candy Darling.... noted the resemblance to Meryl Streep on a good hair and makeup day for Meryl. You are right - Very SOPHIES CHOICE era Meryl....
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