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Encyclopedia > George Spelvin

George Spelvin and Georgina Spelvin are the traditional pseudonyms used in programs in American theatre by actors who don't want to be credited or whose names would otherwise appear twice because they are playing more than one role in a production. A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... Theatre is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. ...


The name appeared on a cast list for the first time in 1886 in Karl the Peddler, a play by Charles A. Gardiner. "Georgina Spelvin" has fallen out of general use since it was adopted as a screen name by pornographic actress Dorothy May, who was credited by that name in The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) and her subsequent films. A pornographic actor or a porn star is somebody who appears in pornographic movies, live sex shows or peep shows. ... Georgina Spelvin (born January 3, 1936) is a pornographic film actress. ... The Devil in Miss Jones is a 1973 adult film. ...


The one-act play The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang features a main character named George Spelvin. Christopher Durang (born January 2, 1949) is a contemporary playwright, especially popular in the 1980s, known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. ...


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Alan Smithee, Allen Smithee, and Adam Smithee are pseudonyms used between 1968 and 1999 by Hollywood film directors who wanted to be dissociated from a film for which they no longer wanted credit. ... Walter Plinge is a pseudonym, traditionally used in London theatres. ... The pseudonym David Agnew was traditionally used on BBC television drama programmes in the 1970s where a writers name could not be used for contractual reasons, for example where a script editor had written an episode of his own programme, or when a writer had been displeased with a...

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