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| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | occupation = Journalist | years_active = 1961–Present | spouse = | children = 1 | credits = | salary = $12 million (2007) }} Barbara Walters (born September 25, 1929)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Barbara Walters: Biography )〕 is an American broadcast journalist, author and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows ''Today'' and ''The View'', the television news magazine ''20/20'', co-anchored the ''ABC Evening News'', and was a contributor to ABC News. Walters first became known as a television personality when she was a writer and segment producer of "women's interest stories" on the morning NBC News program ''The Today Show'', where she began work with host Hugh Downs in 1962, once even modeling a swimsuit when an expected model did not show up. Because of her excellent interviewing ability and her popularity with the viewers, and when other women left the program, she was eventually allowed more air time. Even though her production duties made her a significant contributor to the show, she had no input in choosing a successor for Hugh Downs when he left the show in 1971. Frank McGee was hired. Although his salary was twice hers, at Frank McGee's death in 1974, because of a clause added to her contract by her agent (a family friend), she acquired the title "co-host", the first woman by that title for any network news or public affairs program. Jim Hartz became her co-host. Two years later, continuing as a pioneer for women, she became the first female co-anchor of any network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on the ABC News flagship program ''ABC Evening News'' (List of ABC Evening News anchors). From 1979 to 2004, Walters worked as co-host and producer for the ABC newsmagazine ''20/20'', again appearing with Hugh Downs. From 1976 to 2010, she contributed as an anchor, reporter, and correspondent for ABC News, along with producing and hosting her own special interview programs several times yearly. Beginning in 1997, she created, and appeared as co-host on ''The View''. Walters retired from ABC News and as co-host of ''The View'' on May 16, 2014 and as executive producer in 2015 In 1996, Walters was ranked #34 on the ''TV Guide'' "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time". ==Early life== Barbara Walters was born September 25, 1929 in Boston to Dena (née Seletsky) and Louis "Lou" Walters (born Louis Abrahams).〔Stated on ''Finding Your Roots'', PBS, April 1, 2012〕 Her parents were both Jewish, and descendants of refugees from the former Russian Empire, now Eastern Europe. Walters' paternal grandfather, Isaac Abrahams, was born in Łódź, Poland, and emigrated to England, changing his name to Abraham Walters (the original family surname was Warmwasser).〔(Helping Celebrities Find Their Roots : NPR )〕 Walters' father, Lou, was born in London c. 1896 and moved to New York with his father and two brothers, arriving August 28, 1909. His mother and four sisters arrived in 1910. In 1949 her father opened the New York version of the Latin Quarter. He also worked as a Broadway producer (he produced the ''Ziegfeld Follies of 1943''). He also was the Entertainment Director for the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he imported the "Folies Bergere" stage show from Paris to the resort's main showroom.〔(Tropicana – Las Vegas Strip ). A2zlasvegas.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-27.〕 Walters' brother, Burton, died in 1944 of pneumonia.〔James Conaway, "How to talk with Barbara Walters about practically anything," ''The New York Times'', 10 September 1972, page SM40, 43–44〕 Walters' elder sister, Jacqueline, was born mentally disabled〔Stated in interview at ''Inside the Actors Studio''〕 and died of ovarian cancer in 1985. According to Walters, her father made and lost several fortunes throughout his life in show business. He was a booking agent, and unlike her uncles who were in the shoe and dress business, his job was not very safe. During the good times, Walters recalls her father taking her to the rehearsals of the night club shows he directed and produced. The actresses and dancers would make a huge fuss over her and twirl her around until she was dizzy. Then she said her father would take her out for hot dogs, their favorite.〔Walters, Barbara. (2008) Audition :a memoir New York : A.A. Knopf,〕 According to Walters, being surrounded by celebrities when she was young kept her from being "in awe" of them.〔 When she was a young woman, Walters' father lost his night clubs and the family's penthouse on Central Park West. As Walters recalled, "He had a breakdown. He went down to live in our house in Florida, and then the Government took the house, and they took the car, and they took the furniture." Of her mother, she said, "My mother should have married the way her friends did, to a man who was a doctor or who was in the dress business."〔Elisabeth Bumiller, "So Famous, Such Clout, She Could Interview Herself", ''The New York Times'', April 21, 1996, page H1〕 Walters attended Lawrence School, a public school in Brookline, Massachusetts, to the middle of fifth grade, when her father moved the family to Miami Beach in 1939, where she also attended public school. After her father moved the family to New York City, she went to eighth grade at Ethical Culture Fieldston School, after which the family moved back to Miami Beach. Then, back to New York City, and for high school, Birch Wathen School〔(Can Barbara Walters's Career Survive Rosie and Donald's War?- New York Magazine ). Nymag.com (2007-03-05). Retrieved on 2011-10-27.〕 from which she graduated in 1947. In 1951 she received a B.A. in English from Sarah Lawrence College〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher =biography.com )〕 and immediately looked for work in New York City. After about a year at a small advertising agency, she began working at the NBC network affiliate in New York City, WNBT-TV (now WNBC), doing publicity and writing press releases. She began producing a 15-minute children's program, "Ask the Camera," directed by Roone Arledge in 1953. She then produced for TV host, Igor Cassini/Cholly Knickerbocker, but left the network due to pressure from her boss to marry him, and his fist-fight with a man she preferred to date. Then she went to WPIX to produce the "Eloise McElhone Show."; it was cancelled in 1954. She became a writer on "The Morning Show" at CBS in 1955. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Walters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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