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    Senior Member Country: UK Freddy's Avatar
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    Bit of summer madness here film fans but how many of you have named their children or pets after characters/ actors and actresses. Or do you know of anybody who has.

    thnaks for this

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    At least over in the States, that is a phenomenon that pretty much occurred from the 30s - 60s. Over here, that sort of thing is usually still done by young couples who live in large urban cities, where still many put up posters of favorite stars and favorite movies on front room walls.



    Long ago, some fathers used to call their sons John Wayne _____. Women usually got their first names (Jeanette - Jeanette MacDonald, Marilyn - Marilyn Monroe, etc). When on a recent family visit, we were watching an interview with the singer Bette Midler and she said that she and her sisters were all named after famous actresses. She was named after Bette Davis. Although, her mom pronounced it Bet; while Miss Davis pronounced it, Betty.



    Per British actors and actresses, Once met a young Rachel Ward. Tiffany and Audrey, after the "Breakfast at Tiffany's", the shop, and actress were popular names between 60s and 80s. Audrey Hepburn still has the cosmo influence over here on many cosmo women. Emma is a great name and has made a come back in recent years. Emma Thompson may have some influence here. Some girls may have been named after Kate Winslet, also. As they were twin popular in the 90s in a big way - Chick Lit/Flick phenmomenon. Here, Elizabeth Taylor probably has had the biggest name influence from a British actor or actress over the years.



    A lot of kids were named after the Beatles in the 60s, etc. Ironically, the West Coast Muslim terrorist John Walker Lindh was named after John Lennon. And, thank Heaven the hippie age is over: Moon Unit, Zowie - poor kids. It's telling that David Bowie's son renamed himself.



    My niece is named after the Royal Borough, Chelsea, which has been popular in the past decade or so. Not after a film, but a lot of movies have been filmed there. :)



    Film stars aside, a lot of little girls have been named after Lady Diana. See a lot of Di's and Dee Dees coming up the road. Also, many women named Elizabeth, after I & II, Elizabeth Taylor, family or movie. This is a name that doesn't rust. It's like the word fresh (as in always).



    By and large, I think the "aristocratic age" of the star is passing and people are generally going back to naming children after family or friends. Most men in my family through the centuries have typical English men's names: John, George, William, Henry, etc., and one or two Old Testament names, which was a Puritan phenomen that lasted from the 1600s - 1800s. Although, that has revived amongst many Evanglicals, since the 70s. The ancient Hebrew names refer to character.



    Women family names have been more elegant: Grace, Letitia, Emma, Amie. One favorite was my g-g-g grandmother - her name was Sophia Wayne, pronounced similarly to the singer Shania Twain.



    Gibbie



    P.S - Summer funny, Freddy. I read where Winston Churchill was once asked where the Virgin Islands were; he responded, "the farthest away from the 'Isle of Man.'" :)


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    Senior Member Country: UK Freddy's Avatar
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    Thanks for the ace reply Gibbie, your ps will be e mailed around this lovely isle.

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    Years ago we looked after a beautiful ginger cat which we called Jonesey after the Alien (1979) feline...little did we know that Jonesey was really called 'Thumper' by his real owners down the road, although we only found out this about 18 months after he'd started to sleep/eat/drink/attend parties at 15 Danvers Road Tonbridge, 1988-92...ahhhh happy days. Last known to have rocketed off to Hadlow, Kent, Jonesey moved in with us to escape a new baby in his previous house....

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    Freddy:

    Bit of summer madness here film fans but how many of you have named their children or pets after characters/ actors and actresses. Or do you know of anybody who has.

    thnaks for this

    Freddy
    I went to school with John Mills and Gary Cooper :)

    Not the actors of course. Just Mr & Mrs Mills deciding to name their son John and the Cooper's called their lad Gary.



    That was in the early 1960s



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    (Anuvver old fred I found.)





    A young relative of mine has two sons, Marlon and Elton. Not named in honour of the two famous ones though - I think they just wanted to choose names that were a bit "different".





    And back in the era of "Are You being Served", some friends named their dog "Rumbold". Great name for a big furry lumbering dog!

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    I had a big beautiful German Shepherd years ago, his name was Gandalf. But that was from the book, decades before the movies came out. And a friend who named his German Shepherd Gollum. And I had a cat I named Cosmo after Cosmo Topper, and another cat called Cora after Lana Turner's character in The Postman Always Rings Twice.



    My Aunt had a Norwegin Elkhound she named Mrs. Peel.

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    I used to have two big fat guinea pigs, one called Marlon and the other Orson.

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    My son's named after Tom Adams.



    YDSL x.

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    I knew a guy who named his black cat 'Benson' after the US TV show.

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    name='batman']I used to have two big fat guinea pigs, one called Marlon and the other Orson.


    What, not Max?

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    I have a friend who named her daughter Bailey after George Bailey, Jimmy Stewart's character in It's a Wonderful Life.

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    As a child I had two budgies called Sonny and Cher!

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    name='francesgumm']What, not Max?


    I hadn't heard of him at that time ..... I was in my late teens and didn't discover the great man till much later.

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    name='Steve Crook']I went to school with John Mills and Gary Cooper :)

    Not the actors of course. Just Mr & Mrs Mills deciding to name their son John and the Cooper's called their lad Gary.



    That was in the early 1960s



    Steve


    At my school there was a kid called Alfie, and his brother was christened The Ipcress File!



    My parents named their Labrador after a character in The Dambusters, they called him Guy!

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    I had a mate who called his cat Brian after Brian Setzer of The Stray Cats!

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    In the seventies we called our lovely white kitten Candice Marie, after the character played by Alison Steadman in NUTS IN MAY.

    If we'd had a male, we would have called him Keith, played by Roger Sloman.

    In the end the kitten became Candy or CMK (Candice Marie Kitten), and lived till she was 16.

    Happy memories.

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    name='Joenoir']As a child I had two budgies called Sonny and Cher!
    Good one!



    A childhood friend named his two goldfish "Marco" and "Polo"!





    We once had a cat called Waffles.



    Nothing remarkable about that, but it came about one evening at the dinner table when we were discussing what to name the new kitten. Mum went out to the kitchen and my little sister called out "What's for dessert, Mum?"

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    My mum really loved the series "Roots", and called one of her cats Kissy, she wanted to call the other Kunta kinta (but we persuaded her not to, so it was called ALF after the yank series.(ALF=alien life form).

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    name='ShirlGirl']A childhood friend named his two goldfish "Marco" and "Polo"!


    Goldfish don't usually get much chance to do a lot of exploring



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