Mary Pickford, Kim Wilde and Sugar Ray Robinson were all born with which surname?
"cemetery in Glendale, California. Mary Pickford Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer. With a career spanning 50 years, she was a co-founder of both the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio (along with Douglas Fairbanks) and, later, the United Artists film studio (with Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith), and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who present the yearly ""Oscar"" award ceremony. Pickford was known in her prime as ""America's Sweetheart"" and the ""girl with the curls"". She"
"Marty Wilde Marty Wilde, (born Reginald Leonard Smith; 15 April 1939) is an English singer and songwriter. He was among the first generation of British pop stars to emulate American rock and roll, and is the father of pop singers Ricky, Kim and Roxanne Wilde. Wilde was born in Blackheath, London. He was performing under the name Reg Patterson at London's Condor Club in 1957, when he was spotted by impresario Larry Parnes. Parnes gave his protégés stage names like Billy Fury, Duffy Power and Dickie Pride, hence the change to Wilde. The 'Marty' came from the commended 1955 film,"
"star Mary Pickford. On September 10, 1920, Thomas died of acute nephritis in Paris five days after consuming mercury bichloride. Although her death was ruled accidental, news of her hospitalization and subsequent death were the subject of speculation in the press. Thomas' death has been cited as one of the first heavily publicized Hollywood scandals. Thomas was born Olive R. Duffy in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, but often claimed her birth name was Oliveretta Elaine Duffy. She was the eldest of three children born to James and Rena Duffy, both of whom were of Irish descent. She had two brothers: James (born"
"with her, since they feared to receive a bad reputation sympathizing with Mary Robinson. Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. During her lifetime she was known as ""the English Sappho"". She earned her nickname ""Perdita"" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"") in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née"
"Mary Lincoln Beckwith Mary Lincoln ""Peggy"" Beckwith (August 22, 1898 – July 10, 1975) was a prominent descendant of Abraham Lincoln. She was one of the last two descendants (great-grandchildren) of Abraham Lincoln, along with her brother Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith. Beckwith was born to Jessie Harlan Lincoln and Warren Wallace Beckwith on August 22, 1898, in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. She got the nickname ""Peggy"" from her grandfather Robert Todd Lincoln, who described her hair as ""flying in the sun"" when he wrote to his Aunt Emile Todd Helm. People who were close to her called her ""Peggy."" Raised with"
"at the 11th Annual Rhythm and Blues Awards Gala in 2000. Robinson died of congestive heart failure on September 29, 2011 at age 76. Robinson was born as Sylvia Vanterpool (aka Little Sylvia) on May 29, 1935 in New York City, New York, to Herbert, an immigrant from the Virgin Islands, and Ida Vanterpool. Robinson attended Washington Irving High School until dropping out at the age of 14, and began recording music in 1950 for Columbia Records under the billing, Little Sylvia. In 1954, she began teaming up with Kentucky guitarist Mickey Baker, who then taught her how to play"
"Mary Ford Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Summers; July 7, 1924 – September 30, 1977) was an American vocalist and guitarist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits, including ""How High the Moon"" and ""Vaya con Dios"", which were number one hits on the ""Billboard"" charts. In 1951 alone they sold six million records. With Paul, Ford became one of the early practitioners of multi-tracking. Mary Ford was born Iris Colleen Summers in El Monte, California, the second daughter of Marshall McKinley Summers (born February"
"Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. During her lifetime she was known as ""the English Sappho"". She earned her nickname ""Perdita"" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"") in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née Vanacott) who had married at Donyatt, Somerset, in 1749, and was baptised 'Polle(y)' (""Spelt"
"girl, Pickford was considered to be down to earth, friendly, sweet, and unpretentious. On an unknown date in 1915, before the release of ""The Diamond from the Sky"", Pickford quietly married New York broker Alfred Rupp. The couple had a daughter in 1915, Mary Pickford Rupp (1915-1984), who would be later renamed Gwynne Rupp. The couple separated in 1919 and divorced the following year. For unknown reasons, Pickford allowed her mother Charlotte to legally adopt her daughter, who was renamed Gwynne in 1920. Pickford did not comment to the press on the matter, other than to say she would never"
"Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood is a 1997 biography of actress Mary Pickford (1892–1979) written by Eileen Whitfield. The book took ten years to complete and was published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross in Canada and by the University Press of Kentucky in the United States. The book won the UBC President's Medal in Biography. On October 12, 2012, it was reported that there will be a Mary Pickford biopic based on the novel. On October 17 of that year, it was reported that actress Lily Rabe will star as Pickford in the"
"adopted Pickford as a surname for their acting work. After her daughter, Gladys, known then as actress Mary Pickford, started getting film roles, Charlotte Smith acted in minor parts in three silent films in 1910 and 1911, with her daughter. All three children: Mary, Lottie, and Jack Pickford, became actors, although only Mary Pickford achieved great fame and fortune. Charlotte Smith continued to play a large role in managing her children's careers. She negotiated her daughter Mary Pickford's landmark contracts in the United States as a child star (including her $1 million a year contract, the first of its kind)."
"Jill Rainsford Jill Rainsford (January 31, 1905–July 5, 1994), born Marguerite Rainsford and known as Billy, was an American actress, songwriter, painter and author. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was the second child of Henry and Julia Rainsford and from an early age aspired to a career on the stage, beginning violin and dance lessons at age 8. Her sister Doris, 4 years her senior, was devoted to Billy and was her nearly constant companion throughout her life. Billy was a member of New York's famous Kiddie Klub and performed with such stars as Paulette Goddard, Gene Raymond, and"
"based on the Oscar Wilde play and also starred in it at Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles in 1979. He wrote and performed ""My Love is a Rebel"" on the soundtrack of ""Limbo"", starring Barry Bostwick. His song ""Justice"" appeared on the ""Ciao! Manhattan"" soundtrack. On June 16, 1988, Milford died of heart failure following open heart surgery several weeks earlier. He was 37 years old. Rocky Horror Show Kim Milford Richard Kim Milford (February 7, 1951 – June 16, 1988), known professionally as Kim Milford, was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer. He is known for his stage"
"with Davy Jones of The Monkees. Singer Ray Charles, born Ray Robinson, changed his name to avoid confusion with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. A performer may also have had their stage name chosen for them by their agent – such was the case with Barbara Eden, born Barbara Jean Huffman – or, in the heyday of the Hollywood studios, by a movie studio. Joan Rivers (born Joan Alexandra Molinsky) went one step further and named herself after a former agent, Tony Rivers, after he told her to change her name. In the non English-speaking world, an example is the Taiwanese"
"Obama and was saluted during the dinner, receiving a standing ovation as the picture of him as a child appeared on the video screens. In 2016 he was inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame. Sugar Chile Robinson Frank Isaac Robinson (born December 28, 1938), known in his early musical career as Sugar Chile Robinson, is an American jazz pianist and singer who became famous as a child prodigy. Robinson was born in Detroit, Michigan. At an early age he showed unusual gifts singing the blues and accompanying himself on the piano. According to contemporary newsreels, he was"
"Smith took a role in United Artists and the Mary Pickford Film Company, founded by her daughter, until her death. On March 22, 1928, Smith died of breast cancer after refusing surgery. She had already had several major operations. She was buried in the Pickford plot at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. She bequeathed $200,000 each in trust to her two younger children, Jack and Lottie, and to Lottie's daughter Gwynne. She left the large bulk of her estate to her eldest daughter Mary of $1 million, and she acknowledged the reasons in her will: ""Whatever property I"
"Mary Pickford silhouette contest which selected a lookalike of America's sweetheart. Other aspiring young actresses like Virginia Davis, Cecilia Parker, and Mary Kestner, also submitted photos. As a seventeen-year-old Hollywood High School student, Montgomery acted the part of a maid in the stage play ""Bad Babies"". An attorney for the California State Department of Industrial Relations ruled that the theme of the production was too risque for a minor actress to appear in. Montgomery was required to wait until her eighteenth birthday in 1930 to participate. She became upset over the ruling. Her mother, Mrs. Marie Cleveland, hired a private"
"Kim Kardashian Kimberly Noel Kardashian West (; born October 21, 1980) is an American reality television personality, entrepreneur and socialite. Kardashian first gained media attention as a friend and stylist of Paris Hilton, but received wider notice after a 2003 sex tape with her former boyfriend Ray J was leaked in 2007. Later that year, she and her family began to appear in the E! reality television series ""Keeping Up with the Kardashians"". Its success soon led to the creation of spin-offs including ""Kourtney and Kim Take New York"" and ""Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami"". Kardashian's personal life soon became"
"performer, Wilson also became a musicians' rights activist as well as a musical theater performer and organizer of various museum displays of the Supremes' famed costumes. Wilson was inducted along with Ross and Ballard (as members of the Supremes) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Mary Wilson was born to Sam and Johnnie Mae Wilson in Greenville, Mississippi. She was the eldest of three children including a brother, Roosevelt, and a sister, Katherine. Wilson lived with her parents and moved to St. Louis and later to Chicago before living with her aunt Ivory ""I.V."" and uncle"
"in November 2018. An album of the same name was also released to coincide with the tour, reaching number 42 in the UK Albums Chart. Julia Fordham Julia Fordham (born 10 August 1962) is a British singer-songwriter. Her professional career started in the early 1980s, under the name ""Jules Fordham"", as a backing singer for Mari Wilson and Kim Wilde, before signing a recording contract of her own later that decade. Fordham is now based in California. In 1988, Fordham released her first album on Circa Records, simply titled ""Julia Fordham"". After a round of publicity including an appearance on"
"Mary Pickford Award The Mary Pickford Award is an honorary Satellite Award bestowed by the International Press Academy. It is “IPA’s most prestigious honor” and as an award “for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry” it reflects a lifetime of achievement. The award is named for Mary Pickford, early pioneer of the film industry, who began her career as a child actress and went on to become ""America's Sweetheart"" and a co-founder of United Artists Studios with fellow filmmakers Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith. The award was first presented to Rod Steiger at the 1st Golden"
"his career had begun to decline due to his penchant for partying and frequent use of drugs and alcohol. In 1933, Pickford died in Paris of progressive multiple neuritis, aged 36. John Charles Smith was born in 1896 in Toronto, Ontario, to John Charles Smith, an English immigrant odd-job man of Methodist background, and Charlotte Hennessy Smith, who was Irish Catholic. He was called Jack as a child. His alcoholic father left the family while Pickford was a young child. This incident left the family impoverished. Out of desperation, Charlotte allowed Jack and his two sisters Gladys and Lottie to"
"born. The names of her father's sisters, Eliza and Susan, were purportedly the basis for the nickname ""ZaSu"", i.e., to satisfy competing family interests. She later adopted the nickname professionally and legally. It has been (incorrectly) spelled as Zazu Pitts in some film credits and news articles. Although the name is commonly mispronounced or , or , in her 1963 book ""Candy Hits"" (p. 15), Pitts herself gives the correct pronunciation as ""Say Zoo"" , recounting that Mary Pickford had predicted ""many will mispronounce it"", and adding, ""How right [she] was."" In 1903, when Pitts was nine years old, her"
"subtly orgasmic gasps and moans predated those of ""Love to Love You Baby"" by Donna Summer. Robinson recorded four solo albums on the Vibration subsidiary and had other R&B hits including ""Sweet Stuff"" and ""Pussy Cat"". ""Pillow Talk"" was a soulful medium dance number. In the 1970s, the Robinsons founded Sugar Hill Records. The company was named after the culturally rich Sugar Hill area of Harlem, an affluent African-American neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, known as a hub for artists and performers in the early and mid-1900s. The song ""Rapper's Delight""(1979), performed by The Sugar Hill Gang, brought rap"
"Kimberly Kimble Kimberly Kimble more commonly called Kim Kimble (born December 24, 1971) is a celebrity hair stylist originally from Chicago, Illinois. She is most recognized for her starring role work on WE tv's L.A. Hair. Some of her celebrity clientele include Beyoncé, Brandy Norwood, Kelly Rowland, Nicki Minaj, and Mary J. Blige, Halle Berry, and Shakira. As a child, Kimble played with cut-out magazine pictures and paper dolls. Kimble stated, ""I was into fashion and beauty and showing my creative side from the age of 2 or 3. Because my mom worked all the time, I was alone a"
"""The New York Times"" music critic Robert Palmer. Davis was born Mary Frances Penick on December 30, 1931, the first of seven children born to farmer William Lee and Sarah Rachel Penick (née Roberts), in Dry Ridge, Kentucky. Because her grandfather thought she had a lot of energy for a young child, he nicknamed Mary Frances ""Skeeter"" (slang for mosquito). When Davis was a toddler, her great-uncle was convicted of murdering her maternal grandfather in Indiana. After this incident, Davis recalled that her mother became a ""bitterly depressed woman."" Throughout her childhood, Davis's mother attempted suicide multiple times, several of"
"are ""Seven Ways We Lie"" (2016), ""Note Worthy"" (2017), and ""Final Draft"" (2018), all published by Amulet, an imprint of Abrams Books. Robinson is bisexual, of half-Irish and half-Chinese descent, and the characters in her novels similarly lie ""in the middle of a spectrum rather than out at the ends"". Robinson choose the pseudonym Riley Redgate when she was 16 years old, brainstorming it with the help of other members of a writers' forum. Her composition criteria consisted of three things: she wanted to keep her real initials; something gender neutral; and something easily pronounceable. Riley Redgate Riley Redgate (pen"
"Charles died from a blood clot caused by a workplace accident when he was a purser with the Niagara Steamship Lines. Charlotte Smith struggled to make a living. She allowed her eldest daughter, Gladys, to take some theatre roles in Toronto in parts for children and, as the other children grew, toured with them with theater companies around the United States. They moved to New York, where Gladys landed a role on Broadway. Soon Gladys was able to get some film work, and changed her name to Mary Pickford at the request of a director. Later both her other children"
"They remained married until her early death in 1936. On December 6, 1936, Pickford suffered a heart attack at the age of 43. She was said to have been in failing health for three years, related to alcohol abuse. She died at her home in Beverly Hills. Her funeral was held on December 13 at Wee Kirk o' the Heather Church in Glendale, California. She is buried in the Pickford family plot in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Lottie Pickford Lottie Pickford (born Charlotte Smith, June 9, 1893 – December 9, 1936) was a Canadian-born silent film actress and socialite. She was"
"Marilyn (singer) Peter Robinson (born 3 November 1962, Kingston, Jamaica) better known as Marilyn, is a British/Jamaican pop singer and songwriter. He is most well known for his 1983 hit ""Calling Your Name"" and his highly androgynous appearance. Robinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica. At age 5, he moved with his mother to Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. He left school at 15, and has stated that he was bullied at school for being feminine, and that he self-harmed. As a boy, Robinson loved Marilyn Monroe's image, and Marilyn became his school nickname. While the name originated from homophobic bullies at school, Robinson"
"Kay Starr Katherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became No. 1 hits ""Wheel of Fortune"" in 1951 and ""(The) Rock and Roll Waltz"" in 1955. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried, such as jazz, pop, and country; but her roots were in jazz. Billie Holiday called her ""the only white woman who could sing the blues."" Kay Starr was born Katherine Laverne Starks"
"label was noted for signing the act The New Style, who later left and found success as Naughty by Nature. Robinson was married to businessman Joseph Robinson Sr. (1932–2000) from May 1959 until his death in 2000. Together they had three children, sons Joseph ""Joey"" Robinson Jr. (1962–2015), Leland Robinson (b. 1965 or 1966) and Rhondo ""Scutchie"" Robinson (1970–2014). Robinson owned a bar in Harlem, New York named ""Joey's Place"" after her husband in the 1960s. Robinson also owned another New York bar and nightclub named the Blue Morocco during the mid–1960s. Robinson died on the morning of September 29,"
"which is debuting in January 2017. Kimberly Kimble Kimberly Kimble more commonly called Kim Kimble (born December 24, 1971) is a celebrity hair stylist originally from Chicago, Illinois. She is most recognized for her starring role work on WE tv's L.A. Hair. Some of her celebrity clientele include Beyoncé, Brandy Norwood, Kelly Rowland, Nicki Minaj, and Mary J. Blige, Halle Berry, and Shakira. As a child, Kimble played with cut-out magazine pictures and paper dolls. Kimble stated, ""I was into fashion and beauty and showing my creative side from the age of 2 or 3. Because my mom worked all"