Your Name Isn’t Good Enough
When Janet Leigh was born, she was given the name Jeanette Morrison. She went through a bit of an identity crisis when she landed her famous stage name. Initially, studio executives billed her under her second husband’s last name (Reames), then they switched it to Janet Leigh, then back to her birth name because “Janet Leigh” sounded too close to starlet Vivien Leigh.
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It still wasn’t good enough. One of her early co-stars despised her name! So, instead of calling her by her given name Jeanette Morrison, they decided they liked Janet Leigh more and called her that. The rest is history.