CHANGE IN NAME

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 300, 1 December 1936, Page 2

CHANGE IN NAME

t FAMOUS FILM PLAYERS. SOME STARS RELUCTANT. Film stars who have found It oonvenlent to change their names include : Professional Name Real Name Greta Garbo Greta Gustafson Douglas Fairbanks .... Douglas Ulm John Barrymore John Blyths Bruce Cabot Jacques do Bujac Al Jolson Asa Yoelson Frederic March • • Frederick Mcln-tyre-Bickel Anna Neagle .... Marjorie Robertson Mary Pickford Gladys Smith Ramon Novarro .. Ramon Samaniegos Jack Oakle Lewis D. Ofileld Merle Oberon .... Estelle Thompson Paul Muni .... Muni Welsenfreund Anna Sten Anjuchka StenskJ The four iMarx (brothers were christened, quite prosaically, Julius (Groucho), Leonard (Chico), Arthur (Harpo), and Herbert (Zeppo). To adopt a professional name Is of course quite usual, but only with reluctance, and to avoid confusion, do players drop a name that has become well known. William Boyd, the him star, agreed to call himself Bill Boyd when William Boyd arrived in Hollywood from Broadway; Douglass Montgomery was invited to change, permanently to Douglas Kent, hut declined; and sivce Charles Farrell, the Hollywood film actor, came to England to work there has been a certain amount of confusion with Charles Farrell, the player pf gangsters on the stage.