On the other hand, Ramon Estevez did not, and his son is still legally Carlos Estevez.
I don’t find people, especially actors, who change their whole name or last name as interesting as those who change their given names.
Especially when it’s odd cases like Christopher Walken and Robert Sean Leonard - or Ronald Walken and Robert Lawrence Leonard, as their birth certificates read and as they are still legally known.
Billie Holiday was Billy Crystal’s babysitter on more than one occasion.
(A lot of our posts haven’t been all that “obscure” but are still interesting. This has been one of them.)
“Mrs Crystal, I have something that will help Billy sleep real good.” :eek:
The Roosevelts had an interesting family history. It is well known that Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt were fifth cousins. FDR and his wife Eleanor were fifth cousins once removed and Eleanor was Theodore’s niece. So when FDR married Eleanor, he became Teddy’s nephew by marriage as well as his cousin.
Christopher Lee was the only person in any Bond film who was related to Ian Fleming, if only by marriage. His stepfather’s sister Evelyn was Fleming’s mother.
Not really trivial, but both Peter Lorre and Marlene Dietrich (the latter had worked with Gerron in “The blue Angel” in which he plays the magician) tried to persuade popular jewish actor Kurt Gerron to emigrate to the USA when the Nazis came to power. Gerron refused, thinking he wouldn’t be able to find work there because he didn’t speak English. In 1944, already deported to the concentration camp, he was “asked” to direct one of the most cynical movies ever, the propaganda documentary “Theresienstadt - Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt” (The Führer donates a City to the Jews), which he accepted, desperately hoping his cooperation would save his family and those fellow prisoners forced to work behind and in front of the camera. To no avail: He, his family and most of the crew and actors, including all child actors, were murdered shortly after the film was finished.
On a lighter note: Before regularly beating up Terence Hill, Bud Spencer worked as a librarian in Buenos Aires, a secretary at the Italian embassy in Uruguay and was a very successful professional swimmer. In 2011, the city council of Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany renamed the city’s public outdoor pool, where Spencer had once won a swimming competition, to Bad (Bath) Spencer. He also registered an utility model of a travel-toothbrush with built-in toothpaste.
Despite his incredible voice, former Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey only had two major hits, both about the same incident: The sappy “A good Heart”, written by Maria McKee over her break-up with Tom Petty’s keyboard player Benmont Tench and Tench’s mightily miffed revenge song “You little Thief” (great video btw).
Eleanor Roosevelt’s maiden name makes a good coffeehouse bet, if you set it up right. So does her first name. (It’s Anna.)
Peter Lorre was married for many years to Czech-born actress Celia Lovsky, aka T’Pau of Star Trek fame. She also played Elsa, the wife of John Banner’s character, in the war movie 36 Hours. Banner is, of course, famous for playing Sgt Schultz on Hogan’s Heroes.
Of interest too is that Felice Orlandi, Sgt Maurice DuBois on Hogan’s Heroes, was married to Alice Ghostly, aka Esmeralda the maid on Bewitched … who was also the second Gertrude Burkhalter on Hogan’s Heroes.
Like Peter Lorre, Leon Askin, the actor who played Gen Burkhalter on Hogan’s Heroes, was a Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Germany. Nearly all of the actors who played Nazis on Hogan’s Heroes were Jewish.
The planet name “Tatooine” is never mentioned in Star Wars Ep. 4
Bill Paxton was in the crowd in Ft Worth, TX listening to JFK speak. On November 22, 1963, the day that he was assassinated. There’s even a picture of Paxton sitting on someone’s shoulders.
Tom Paxton was accepted as a member of the Chad Mitchell Trio, but reject because his voice did not blend well with Mitchell’s. The group did record his song The Marvelous Toy, which started Paxton’s fame as a songwriter and made me a huge amount of money.
The Isley Brothers toured England with the Beatles in 1962 and introduced them to Twist and Shout (and talking with Rudy Isley about that experience was one of the best conversations I’ve ever had!)
Johnny Cash’s birth name was J. R. Cash, initials only, and he was the first American to hear about Stalin’s death.
So we all knew it from secondary sources? That doesn’t sound right.
Watch the movie. You’ll see.
I was about to say that the name Tatooine was given in the opening crawl of Ep. 4 (and therefore not spoken in the movie), but I checked and it’s not.
I don’t disbelieve you. I am just trying to reconstruct how we all knew the name… I am supposing it was from the secondary and promo material. Weird.
Heinrich Hoffmann, the man who later became Hitler’s personal photographer, captured the 25-year-old Adolf among the huge crowd that gathered in the center of Munich on the day war was declared in 1914. It was quite some time before the two men realized the coincidence:
John Wilkes Booth attended Lincoln’s second inauguration just weeks before the President was assassinated. In at least one photo of the event, Booth can be seen staring down at Lincoln from only a short distance away:
An unsung celebrity, perhaps: The first known photo of a human being is a man having his shoes shined:
The photo and caption in this link make no sense whatsoever.
I assume you scrolled down aways to the photo of Booth? :dubious:
Yeah, I know the caption is not great, but this photo had the clearest image of Booth himself out of all the others I could find. If you Google “Booth Lincoln Inauguration Photo,” you’ll find many more images that show the entire scene on the steps of the Capitol, though it’s sometimes hard to distinguish either the President or the assassin.