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..according to this web page about Angelina Jolie's ancestry, her mother's name at birth was Marcia Lynne, so Marcheline must actually have been a stage name she adopted herself after she became an actress. So whether she found it as a rare but real French name somewhere, or whether she just invented it to sound French to American ears but it really isn't a French name, remains to be discovered. :)

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http://www.wargs.com/other/voight.html

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(If you look further down the geneology you will discover Marceline as a first name in Ms. Bertrand's ancestry, but I suspect the "h" was her addition to link her stage name with the usual American pronunciation of Marcia.)

This message was edited 7/13/2008, 5:31 PM