Gilda Berger: Hi, my name is Gilda Berger. According to our family's tradition, I was named for a family deceased relative, in my case, it was my father's Russian grandmother, whose name was Gita. From, earliest days, I was told that Gita, in Russian, meant good. For a young child, that was always a hard name to live up to. The family legend has it, when it was time for my mother to record my name on my birth certificate, the nurses urged her to give me a more Americanized name. There was a popular dancer, at the time, her name was Gilda Gray and my parents decided to choose Gilda, as my name. However, my entire childhood, I was called Gitty, a diminutive of Gita. To this day, I'm known as Gitty to my oldest friends and family but Gilda to everybody else.