Real Names Of Old Hollywood Stars. Batman star Michael Keaton is an example of an actor who needed to change his name because there was already an actor in the Screen Actors Guild with his birth name. These rare pictures of old Hollywood stars at home capture what their lives were like off set from their hobbies to them baking and doing housekeeping tasks just like everyone else.
Schindlers List and Iron Man 3 actor Sir Ben Kingsleys real name is actually Krishna Pandit Bhanji. Well some of them were and some of them werent. Kay Francis is possibly the biggest of the forgotten stars from Hollywoods Golden Era yet for a while in the 1930s she ranked as one of the most popular actresses tagged the Queen of Warner Brothers by 1935 earning a yearly salary of 115000 compared to Bette Davis with 18000.
Well some of them were and some of them werent.
Many of the Old Hollywood stars you know and loveMarilyn Monroe Rita Hayworth Judy Garland the list goes onuse stage names picked by the studios. One of her most memorable performances was as the addle-brained Mrs. Real Names Ever wondered if the stars from yesterday were really born with names like Marilyn Monroe Grace Kelly Audrey Hepburn James Cagney Carol Lombard or Clark Gable. The star changed his name long before making it onto the A-list using his dads nickname Ben.
