smitty1931 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Gustav von Seffertitz, now that is a name to savor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Yeah, and which, ironically, translated from the original German is: "Rip Torn"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Yup, those foreign guys have weird names...I mean they are so, uh, foreign. Just joking... I recognize that name, he played Neri in Don Juan (1926). Not a nice guy. Edited by: laffite on Mar 28, 2014 3:02 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I've always found the name of the screenwriter "Lenore Coffee" worth savoring, in a "Madge Fudge" or "Johnny Machine" kind of way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 >Gustav von Seffertitz, now that is a name to savor. I love that guy's voice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc2 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Bennidict Cumberbatch Edited by: sfpcc2 on Mar 28, 2014 7:03 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Old Hollywood use to change the weird names of actors i.e. Cary Grant - real name Archibald Alexander Leach. Here's a tongue twister - Natalie Wood's real name is Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko. The funniest - Albert Brooks is (no kidding) Albert Einstein. Don't take a genius to figure that one out. The oddest - Kirk Douglas is Issur Danielovitch Demsky. Wonder did the kids say Is you what? Edited by: hamradio on Mar 28, 2014 8:40 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 >Here's a tongue twister - Natalie Wood's real name is Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko. Yeah...well...I'll bet after perfecting his "Tchaikovsky" routine years earlier, Danny Kaye would have had NO problem with THAT, Ham! (...that baby would have rolled RIGHT off his tongue!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Zakharenko is a type of wood from a tree indigenous to central Russia that doesn't float. (GROANNNN........) RAGS RAGLAND is a name I always liked. Even though his REAL first name was John. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 I believe Veronica Lake had a mouthful of a real name, which I'm too lazy to look up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Sorry, but I'm too lazy to read your message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roverrocks Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Super macho John Wayne's real name being Marion Morrison. Just how far would "Marion" have gotten in Hollywood as the quintessential western/cavalry tough guy being named "Marion" Wayne..........................................I don't think too far. "The Duke" might have been known as "El Magnifico" the dancing cowpoke instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starliteyes Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Yes, and how far would Robert Taylor have gotten if he had used his real moniker - Spangler Arlington Brugh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 The funny thing about Benedict Cumberbatch is that he is the son of British actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham. I am familiar with his mother's work because she appeared in a couple of episodes of "The Saint" opposite Roger Moore in the 1960s. But Benedict's dad's real name is Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, which means he dropped the surname professionally. You've got to give Benedict credit for sticking with his real name. By the way, Benedict's parents appeared with him in the Christmas 2013 episode of "Sherlock," which aired on PBS several weeks ago. They played Sherlock Holmes' father and mother, respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Robert Taylor was in one of the most stupidly-titled movies, "Quentin Durward". Sounds like the name of a weird computer nerd. So we can say that Spangler Arlington Brugh was the star of Quentin Durward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Would a Volodymyr Palahnik have ever done one-handed pushups on the Oscar stage? To reverse things, and go from boring name to exciting name, would Betty Perske have had the "Look?" Or would Ruby Stevens have made a believable Ball of Fire? Would Estelle Thompson have been exotic as Merle Oberon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 >Or would Ruby Stevens have made a believable Ball of Fire? I think Ruby should have kept her original name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 >I think Ruby should have kept her original name. I don't know, Fred. I think it's fine, but too ordinary for Hollywood of the 30's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roverrocks Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Robert Taylor should have been a late 60's rock star. "SPANGLER" would have been a great rock band name and lead singer name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc2 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 In the 80's there was a actress named Tuesday Knight, (she was in a couple of the Nightmare On Elm Street Movies.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Another weird name, Alexandra Zuck... http://tinyurl.com/lgv5jn9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Doesn't matter. I do believe the OP was going on about actors and actresses with weird names that HAVEN'T been changed. I didn't look it up, but I'm sure NEHEMIAH PERSOFF didn't change from something else to THAT. But Hollywood was funny in that they would let some odd names slip by. Like, who besides Demi Moore would name their kid TALLULAH? MYNA, GREER or BEULAH?( Even though "Greer" was one of two "middle" names of Ms. Garson, and was her Mother's maiden name, her actual first name of "Eileen" would have worked just fine as well) But a lot of that could have been Hollywood's weird perception. Maybe, who knows, maybe BERNIE SWARTZ might have made it just as big as TONY CURTIS? Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Believe me there are weirder, funnier names out there. Worst celebrity baby names http://www.babble.com/celebrity/33-worst-celebrity-baby-names/mars-merkaba/ Edited by: hamradio on Mar 30, 2014 12:50 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 LOL Sepia not only did Tony change his name, but with that spelling you posted you also changed his name. It was Bernie Schwartz, not Swartz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Even though Betty changed her name to Lauren, everyone has always still called her Betty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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