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Khan Man. Lolita Dolores Martinez Asunsolo Lopez Negrette is now Dolores Del Rio. Marion Morrison probably thought his name sounded girlish so he changed it to John Wayne. Douglas Fairbanks was really Douglas Ulman. June Allyson was Ella Geisman. Tasmania's Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson started her career as Queenie Thompson, outgrew that and became Merle Oberon. Yul Brynner goes around saying that his original name was Taidje Khan Jr. of northeast Asia, but he is probably Alfie Jones of Kansas City, Mo., or something like that. No one has ever been able to pin him down about his background, not even his wives.
Meanwhile, Rip Torn, that bisyllabic symbol of absurdly phony Hollywood names, is really Rip Torn. His father was Rip Torn, too.