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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | - BFI.org.uk. - IMDb. - Skywalker Sound. As always, the database contains both G/Y/W entries as well as G//Y W ones. Which is it? For the record: there is also one film ('Single White Female') in which she is credited with a hyphen, as Gwendolyn Yates-Whittle. Is that enough to establish "Yates" as part of her last name, rather than a middle name? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | According to IMDb, she is credited with variations of Yates-Whittle six times. Unfortunately, she is also credited as Gwendolyn Y. Whittle, which implies it is a middle name, fifteen times.  My local has Gwendolyn/Yates/Whittle. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: May 20, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,934 |
| | Posted: | | | | It looks like she was credited as Gwendolyn Yates till Dead Poets Society(1989). Then as Gwen Whittle in The Godfather Part III(1991). then after that various forms (Y. Whittle) (Yates Whittle) (Yates-Whittle). It sounded like she wasn't sure how she wanted to reference after she got married.
Ok more confused.....
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 824 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ah, a marriage. Then it is not a middle name. Seems pretty cut and dry to me. | | | | 99.9% of all cat plans consist only of "Step 1." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | It really isn't that easy. As there is many women I know that opted to move their maiden name to their middle name. I am not saying that is the case here... as I have no idea... sounds like she couldn't decide how to do it herself at least for a while. But it is not something that would be cut and dry.
I just personally wish Ken wouldn't have rules out a single name field. Oh well. | | | | Pete |
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| T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Grendell: Quote:
Ah, a marriage. Then it is not a middle name. Seems pretty cut and dry to me. If only we could get that instated as a ground rule... That, at least, would be "documentable" in a number of cases. Unfortunately, as you can see, lots of people don't agree, and so it remains pretty much a guessing game with generally nothing substantial enough to convice either side. The current poll balance of 7:7 nicely illustrates this...  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | I just noticed that I have the name listed wrong above. I actually have it as Gwendolyn/ /Yates Whittle in my local. Sorry for the confusion.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Grendell: Quote:
Ah, a marriage. Then it is not a middle name. Seems pretty cut and dry to me. Hardly cut and dry. When my mom married my dad her maiden name became her middle name...and she never used it as anything but a middle name after that. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | My vote, just based on personnel preference: G//Y W. Just because of my German thinking of the "after marriage maiden name gets to last name". |
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