 Veronica Lake |
 Robert Taylor |
 Rita Hayworth |
For the most part, movie stars today don’t change their names as dramatically as they (or usually the studio they worked for) did in the days when a star’s image was carefully and in some cases, unscrupulously, cultivated and controlled. Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet or is the name the thing? See what you think as you take a look at some movie stars real names.
John Wayne: Marion Michael Morrison
Cary Grant: Archibald Leach
Gene Wilder: Jerome Silberman
Robert Taylor: Spangler Arlington Brugh
Fred Astaire: Frederick Austerlitz
Eve Arden: Eunice Quedens
Sandra Dee: Alexandra Zuck
Tom Cruise: Thomas Mapother IV
Ginger Rogers: Virginia McMath
Judy Garland: Frances Gumm
Rita Moreno: Rosita Alverio
Sophia Loren: Sophia Scicoloni
Veronica Lake: Constance Ockleman
Rita Hayworth: Margarita Cansino
Greta Garbo: Greta Gustafsson
Tony Curtis: Bernard Schwartz
Cher: Cherilyn Sarkisian
Cid Charisse: Tula Ellice Finklea
Jack Benny: Benjamin Kubelsky
Natalie Wood: Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
 Natalie Wood |
 Greta Garbo |
 Cyd Charisse |
