Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. Oh, yes.
Mr. Jenner. And your daughter's name?
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. That is why I could not dance any more. I had to drop completely dancing and everything.
Mr. Jenner. Now, that you have mentioned your daughter, let's cover her.
What was her given name?
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. Her given name was Jeanne Elinor LeGon. Also after a dancer.
Mr. Jenner. Eleanor Powell?
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. Yes, exactly. And being unaware—you see, in Europe if you have two names, the first name is important, the second one is usually your mother's or somebody, and you have it just in case.
In the States the last name is the one that counts—the previous names don't mean much.
So when she was born, we were not citizens yet, and we didn't have a legal paper of changing our name to LeGon. So in her birth certificate I put down Jeanne Elinor LeGon and just in case, Bogoiavlensky, so just in case something happened to us she would not be an orphan thrown somewhere—I was so afraid something would go wrong and she would be put out of the country or something—she was born here, and that is her name, and I put that Bogoiavlensky on the birth certificate.