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The real names of some celebrities were always going to need a makeover. For clanging no-brainers with all the glamour and savoir faire of an impacted molar, Frances Ethel Gumm (Judy Garland), Olivia Cockburn (Olivia Wilde), and Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston (Audrey Hepburn) spring to mind. Slotting well into that category was Barbel Goutscherola. Which sounds like an expensive piece of gym equipment.

A young Barbel was forced to leave her native Czechoslovakia after the second world war. She was now known as Barbara Gutscher, and her family was placed in a settlement camp in what was the

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