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A stage name or professional name is a pseudonym used by performers, authors, and entertainers—such as actors, comedians, singers, and musicians. The equivalent concept among writers is called a nom d
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) created her stage name by combining her mother's maiden name with the first name of Broadway star Marilyn Miller. It became her legal name in 1956.
Actress Barbara Eden, born Barbara Jean Morehead, adopted the stage name chosen by her agent.
Actor Michael Caine, born Maurice Micklewhite
Every member of the punk band Ramones (from left to right), Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, and Tommy Ramone, adopted the "Ramone" surname
Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an embl
Stage name
…Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) created her stage name by combining her mother's maiden name with the first name of Broadway star Marilyn Miller. It became…
Monroe in 1953
Monroe as an infant, c. 1927
Monroe with her first husband, James Dougherty, c. 1943–44. They married when she was sixteen and divorced in 1946, when she was twenty.
A photo of Monroe taken by David Conover in 1944 at the Radioplane Company