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Artistic nickname or stage name - a kind of nickname that ispolzute various artists, actors, musicians, comedians, clowns.

Artists take on pseudonyms for various reasons, often due to the fact that their real name appears to them is not enough recognizable and memorable because of its ambiguity or difficulty of pronunciation. In addition, the artist can change the name to avoid confusion with other artists, like wearing a name or nickname. (Wikipedia)

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Sofia Shikolone grew up in a family of poor Italian actors mobile theater. When she was 15 years of clumsy teenager turned into a beautiful girl, her mother decided to realize their own dreams with the help of her daughter. She drove Sofia on numerous beauty contests, knocking at the offices most famous film director, she extolled it as the most valuable "goods" as a girl ... not helped one case.

In the movie "Africa under the seas" Sophia offered a major role. "However, - said the producer, - your name will not do. It sounds vulgar. For example, Marta Toren, - he said, recalling the actress from his recent film. And then he began to sort through the alphabet until he stopped at "L". From that moment a new born movie star - Sophia Loren. By the way, this was produced by none other than Carlo Ponti, the future husband of the beautiful Sofia ...

When Vivian Mary Hartley (in marriage Holman) has decided to act in films, she was asked to change the name. One of obliging producers proposed to remove the first four letters in her maiden name Hartley and little has changed her name. So she became Vivien Leigh

Today it is difficult to imagine that Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeanne under the name Mortenson. Signing a contract with the studio to participate in the film, she took the name of his grandmother Monroe, and the name - the actress Marilyn Miller. Catherine Deneuve took his mother's surname himself to avoid being confused with her sister - actress Françoise Dorléac. Actress Monica Vitti was born Mary Louise Chechcharelli, Marlene Dietrich - Mary Magdalene von Losch, Sophie Marceau - Sophie I pray, Anouk Aimee - Françoise Soria-Dreyfus.

Take aliases peculiar and many actors. So Julia Roberts was Michelle Roberts, Demi Moore - Demetria Gene Gaynes, Winona Ryder - Winona Horowitz, Whoopi Goldberg - Kerin Johnson, etc.

Several male actors also appear under pseudonyms. The present name of the French actor and director Pierre Richard - Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Leopold Defey. His sons, Olivier and Christophe musicians known under the name Defey. Louis de Funes was also the owner of a long names - Carlos Luis de Funes de Galarsa as actor Fernandel. His name is consisted of 5 words - Blue Fernand Joseph Désiré Kontanden.Ivo Levi became a French singer Yves Montand, Charles Ray today called Chuck Norris, Juan Moreno, known under the name of Jean Reno, real name Jackie Chan - Chan Kunsun. Actor Burvil inherited from parents name - Andre Rembur and Antonio Banderas - José Antonio Dominguez Bandera. Woody Allen birth name was Allen Stewart Kenisberg. Even as a child he did not like his own name. As an adult, he changed it. Name the actor Woody borrowed from a musician Woody Herman ...

(Below-Yves Montand)

It is known that the lives of many political figures closely connected with pseudonyms. As a rule, the parties' names, aliases are associated with attempts to hide the real name to avoid persecution. Only in V. Ulyanov-Lenin was about 150 aliases. The most famous of them - Bolshevik, Karpov, Kupriyanov, Layman, Petrov, Osipov, Silin, Tulin, etc. It's no secret that Stalin - is I. Dzhugashvili, Trotsky - Lev (Leib) Bronstein, former German Chancellor Willy Brandt - Herbert Karl Frahm, a Soviet spy Rudolf Abel - William Fisher.

Not only politicians, but also the power of writers and censorship forced to hide their real names. It is no coincidence speaking of literary life in Russia, Marxist theorist Georgy Plekhanov noted that the Russian writer "consists" of the soul, body, and, of course, a pseudonym. So, a member of the Decembrist Uprising (1825) B. Kiichelbecker published his articles under the pseudonym B. Garpenko. A friend of Herzen, poet and essayist, N. Ogarev put two letters "R. Ch, "which meant" the Russian people. "

Not all writers could openly acknowledge his authorship. And the reasons were different. M. Saltykov, as vice-governor of Tver and Ryazan, signed pseudonym Shchedrin. The responsible officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Melnikov worked under the name of A. Caves. By the way, the author's pseudonym stories offered collector of Russian words Dal. The fact that P. Melnikov lived in a house on the street Pechersk.

(Below-the poet and satirist Alexander Sasha Black-Glikbert)

In the 60 years of the twentieth century in the pages of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" sparked controversy around the article writer M. Bubennov "Do we need an alias?" What do you think the author, "Socialism has eliminated the reasons that motivate people to take an alias." In this debate the famous writer Konstantin Simonov suggested that the man himself the right to decide to take his pseudonym or do without it. This is a private matter of the author. However, many party leaders and their "yes-men" tried to present the issue of public importance aliases circumstance that is intolerable in our society.

The controversy soon subsided, and aliases continue to live their lives. Sonorous and original name for a creative person, sometimes, half of his success. But only half. The rest depends on the author.

By the way remember an interesting example. Journalist Tatiana Saussure took the pseudonym Tess. The fact was that the literature was known poet Saussure. Once at the opening of the Moscow planetarium young ocherkistka met Gorky. Writer embarrassed journalist asked: "Why do you have a strange name?" She explained the combination of letters in it. But then he said: "It's probably bad." At that Gorky said: "Will write well, your nickname will know everything. A bad - there's no one to help ... "here is illustrated examples aliases

Marlene Dietrich Maria Magdalena von Losch