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Are screen names less common today - and your favorite sn/real name combo?

Posted on 3/22/15 at 7:11 am
Posted by Methuselah
On da Riva
Member since Jan 2005
23350 posts
Posted on 3/22/15 at 7:11 am
Seems like back in the day, screen names were more common - John Wayne (Marion Morrison), Marylin Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson), Rock Hudson (Leroy Harold Scherer, Jr.), Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach), etc.

It kind of seems the use of real names is increasing lately though. Best I can tell, names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Liam Neeson, Michael Fassbender are real names and are the types of names which well might have been changed in favor of screen names in past years.

And some favorite (or at least surprising) real name/screen name combos:

Helen Mireen was born Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov.
Elvis Costello was born Declan Patrick McManus
Alan Alda was born Alphonso d’Abruzzo
Bruno Mars was born Peter Gene Hernandez
and of course
Michael Keaton was born Michael Douglas.
Posted by stinkdawg
Savannah, smoking by the gas cans
Member since Aug 2014
4072 posts
Posted on 3/22/15 at 8:18 am to
Demi Moore (Demetria Guynes), Jamie Foxx (Eric Bishop), Vin Diesel (Mark Sinclair Vincent), Nick Cage (Nicolas Coppala)
Posted by saint amant steve
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2008
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Posted on 3/22/15 at 8:38 am to
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Jamie Foxx (Eric Bishop)


There is an interesting story behind that name and Bishop's beginnings in stand-up comedy. I seem recall reading that he would regularly attend some comedy club but it was nearly impossible to get stage time. He figured he would come up with a unisex name because the owners might misinterpret it as being a sexy female and therefore grant him some time.
Posted by Darla Hood
Near that place by that other place
Member since Aug 2012
13904 posts
Posted on 3/22/15 at 9:13 am to
Imogen Poots ... I maybe would want to change that one!

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