When I was a child, one of the great delights of going to the pictures came from careful watching of the opening & closing credits. All those strange occupations
And, if the film were American, the weird & wonderful names. Imagine being saddled with something like that instead of a nice, proper (ie English) name
I thought of this when I read the obituary of Cyd Charisse
She went from Tula Ellice Finklea
to Maria Istomina
then Felia Sidorova
followed by Lily Norwood
until becoming known by what seems now the only possible & right name, especially for those fabulous legs
