The Fifties’ film legend has, we hear, changed her name to Clara.

“Doris now signs notes as Clara,” explains a source close to the 84-year-old.

“She made the switch to distance herself from her screen image.”

With four failed marriages behind her, the veteran actress now devotes her life to rescuing animals and feels like a different person.

Clara was a nickname given to her more than 50 years ago by a former co-star, Billy De Wolfe, who felt she looked more like a Clara than a Doris.

She was named after her mother’s favourite silent screen star, Doris Kenyon.