real names

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* Woody Allen, was Allen Stewart Konigsberg
* Milton Berle, was Milton Berlinger
* Tony Curtis, was Bernard Schwartz
* Rodney Dangerfield, was Jacob Cohen
* Kirk Douglas, was Issur Danielovitch
* Cary Grant was Archibald Leach
* Joel Grey, was Joel Katz
* Danny Kaye, was David Daniel Kaminsky
* Jerry Lewis, was Joseph Levitch
* Peter Lorre, was Laszlo Lowenstein
* Lenin, was Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov
* Chico Marx, was Leonard Marx
* Gummo Marx, was Milton Marx
* Zeppo Marx, was Herbert Marx
* Zero Mostel, was Samuel Joel Mostel
* Tony Randall, was Leonard Rosenberg
* Edward G. Robinson, was Emmanuel Goldenberg
* Rudolph Valentino, was Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmi
* Eddie Vedder was Edward Louis Severson III
* John Wayne, was Marion Michael Morrison, then nicknamed Duke Morrison
* Malcolm X, was Malcolm Little, but his final name was El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz
* Rock Hudson, was Roy Scherer, Jr., then at remarriage of mother, Roy Fitzgerald

* Lauren Bacall, was Betty Joan Perske
* Cher, was Cherilyn Sarkisian
* Dyan Cannon, was Samille Diane Friesen
* Greta Garbo, was Greta Louisa Gustafsson
* Whoopi Goldberg, was Caryn Johnson
* Madonna, was Madonna Louise Ciccone
* Marilyn Monroe, was Norma Jean Baker
* Mary Pickford, was Gladys Smith
* Shelly Winters, was Shirley Schrift