Talk:Donna Summer

Filmography
I am from Germany, doctor of medicine, born 1964, and I know very well the German film serie "11 Uhr 20" from 1970 (once more on German TV in 1985), in which Donna Summer has a small role als a singing female dancer. So I have corrected the chapter "filmography" in this wiki-article. Donna summer has a role as singing dancer in the German crime serie "11 Uhr 20", that is right. But she performs in the FIRST episode "Mord am Bosporus" (engl: Murder at bosphorus-side), NOT in the third episode "Tod in der Kasbah" (engl: Death in the kasbah). Accordingly, she was not dancer in a kasbah. She performed as dancer in an indecent bar in Istanbul, which in the film is owned by a criminal. The gag of the scene: While the innocent main actor (Hans-Joachim Fuchsberger) is fighting in the bar, handling a revolver, throwing chairs, the female dancer (Donna Summer) continues singing. 87.163.191.168 (talk) 00:36, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

You can see the whole episode on youtube, enter "Mord am Bosporus", at 36:19 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.163.191.168 (talk) 00:48, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

By the way, the German main actor Hans-Joachim Fuchsberger had the highest dregree in Judo, the fighting-scene, in which he overcomes 3 men, is very real. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.163.191.168 (talk) 01:29, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Birth name changed
Birth name is LaDonna Adrian Gaines, not Donna. And reverted it stating it is "possible vandalism" when it is not. TheGreatestLuvofAll  ( chat with me ) 17:43, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source for this information? CodeTalker (talk) 18:00, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * A user also did this redirect in the article. Sources:,, public records also list her name as that only in aliases only like in find a grave or ancestry or whatever else, more sources , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Summer changed her first name from LaDonna to Donna as listed in one of these sources. I don’t really care if they are not or are reliable sources at all, even if they aren’t, it is not a good source for that info.  TheGreatestLuvofAll  ( chat with me ) 18:20, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * The page used the birth name LaDonna until this edit earlier in 2023, which claimed that "Her own daughter, Brooklyn Sodano, found her mother's birth certificate. Her birth name was Donna; LaDonna was a family nickname. Sodano says the misunderstanding came from her mother's own book" - sourced from this interview. Official Massachusetts birth records (primary sources) give the birth name Donna.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:46, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh ok. Thanks. TheGreatestLuvofAll  ( chat with me ) 20:15, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * For our readers though, it's very misleading to have two sources, one in the lead sentence, and the other in the Early life section that explicitly state she was born LaDonna Andrea Gaines. There is no mention in the article, that I can find, to explain to our readers that LaDonna was a family nickname, or the misunderstanding came from her mother's own book. Isaidnoway (talk) 19:28, 9 July 2024 (UTC)