I find it interesting, that for people professing so much pride in their history, they feel obligated/complelled for some reason to hide who they really are. Or does it lend to their stereotype for greed? I know of no others so inclined.

The Name Changers

The Jewish Hollywood moguls long ago decided that
it would help them make more money if the general
public viewed films as being "Christian." In fact,
they personally wanted to blend in with the Gentile
community. Thus Samuel Goldfish changed his name to
Goldwyn and Cecil B. de Mille insisted that he was a
Gentile until his death when a Rabbi officiated at his
funeral. Every single one of the original Jewish
developers of the movie industry divorced their Jewish
wives and married beautiful Christian starlets. This
includes Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, Jack Warner,
David O. Selznick and Harry Cohen. They gave orders to
the numerous Jews they made "stars" to change their Jewish
names to Christian sounding ones. This has also included
a lot of "nosejobs" for both Jewish male and female stars.
Here are but a few who followed this road to stardom.

Adopted Christian Name ..................Real Jewish Name

Joey Adams ............................. Joseph Abramowitz
Eddie Albert ............................Eddie Heimberger
Woody Allen............................. Allen Konigsberg
Lauren Bacall .......................... Joan Perske
Jack Benny ............................. Benny Kubelsky
Milton Berle ........................... Milton Berlinger
Ernest Borgnine .........................Effron Borgnine
George Burns ........................... Nathan Birnbaum
Joan Blondell........................... Rosebud Blustein
Joyce Brothers ..........................Joyce Bauer
Mel Brooks ............................. Melvin Kaminsky
Joey Bishop ............................ Joey Gottlieb
Charles Bronson ........................ Charles Buchinsky
Rona Barrett ............................Rona Burnstein
Cyd Chrisse .............................Tula Finklea
Tony Curtis ............................ Bernie Schwartz
(daughter is Jamie Lee Curtis)
Joan Crawford .......................... Lucille Le Sueur
Dyan Cannon ............................ Samile Friesen
Kirk Douglas ........................... Isadore Demsky
(son is Michael Douglas)
Bob Dylan ...............................Robert Zimmerman
Rodney Dangerfield ......................Jacob Cohen
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ................. Douglas Ullman
Joel Grey .............................. Joel Katz
(father of Jennifer Grey)
Elliott Gould ...........................Elliott Goldstein
Zsa Zsa Gabor ...........................Sara Gabor
John Garfield .......................... Jules Garfinkle
Judy Garland ........................... Frances Gumm
Paulette Goddard ....................... Paulette Levy
Eydie Gorme............................. Edith Gormezano
Cary Grant ............................. Larry Leach
Lorne Green .............................Chaim Leibowiz
Judy Holliday .......................... Judith Tuvin
Leslie Howard .......................... Leslie Stainer
Buddy Hackett .......................... Leonard Hacker
Jill St. John .......................... Jill Oppenheim
Danny Kaye.............................. David Kominsky
Alan King .............................. Irwin Kniberg
Larry King...............................Larry Zeiger
Tina Louise............................. Tina Blacker
Ann Landers..............................Esther Friedman
(Abigail Van Buren is her sister.)
Dorothy Lamour ......................... Dorothy Kaumeyer
Miehael Landon ......................... Mike Orowitz
Steve Lawrence ......................... Sidney Leibowitz
Hal Linden.............................. Hal Lipshitz
Jerry Lewis ............................ Joseph Levitch
Karl Maiden .............................Maiden Sekulovitch
Ethel Merman ........................... Ethel Zimmerman
Jan Murray ............................. Murray Janofsky
Walter Matthau ......................... Walter Matasschanskayasky
Lilly Palmer ........................... Maria Peiser
Jan Pierce.............................. Pincus Perelmuth
Roberta Peters...........................Roberta Peterman
Eleanor Parker.......................... Ellen Friedlob
Joan Rlvers .............................Joan Molinsky
Tony Randall ........................... Sidney Rosenberg
Edward G. Robinson ..................... Emanuel Goldenberg
Dinah Shore ............................ Fanny Rose
Shelly Winters ......................... Shirley Schrift
Gene Wilder............................. Jerome Silberman

More Jewish Stars Over Hollywood

There are hundreds of other Jews in Hollywood "stardom" - far
too numerous to list them all here. However the following are
Jews whom many think are Gentiles:

Ed Asner, Bea Arthur, Gene Barry, Richard Benjamin, Kevin Costner,
Lee J. Cobb, Richard Dreyfus, Ted Danson, Peter Falk
(Columbo), Eddie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Betty Grable,
Sharon Gless, Steven Segall, Dustin Hoffman, Monty Hall, Amy Irving,
Jack Klugman, Leonard Nimoy, Ken Olin, Ron Perlman, George Segel,
William Shatner, Peter Strauss, Rod Steiger, Jane Seymour,
Barbara Walters, Debra Winger and the following are half-Jewish:
Joan Collins, Goldie Hawn, Paul Newman, Robert DeNiro and Geraldo Rivera.
Jews in the music field include, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, Tony Martin,
Bette Midler, Barbara Streisand and Ringo Starr.
Here are but a few in the field of"comedy" which is 90% Jewish dominated!
Roseanne Barr, David Brenner, Sid Caesar, Richard Dawson, Don Adams, Norm
Crosby, George Jessel, Alan King, Carl Reiner, Don Rickles, Martha Reye,
Garry Shandling, Henry Winkler and David Letterman.

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