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Dorothy Hammerstein (7 June 18993 August 1987) was an Australian-born American interior designer and decorator. She was the second wife of the lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. ==Early life== Dorothy Marian Kiaora Blanchard was born to Henry James Blanchard (1862-?), a New Zealand-born〔(Ancestry.com ). Retrieved 17 November 2013〕 master mariner (Dorothy's second middle name Kiaora is a traditional greeting in the Māori language of New Zealand). Her mother was Marion (née Parmenter; 1867-1946), born in Scotland.〔 There were four other daughters of the marriage. Henry Blanchard became a ship's pilot on Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay, and they resided in the bayside suburb of Williamstown, in a large house called ''Mandalay''.〔(''The Age'', 6 February 2013, Historic home alive with sound of crumbling ). Retrieved 17 November 2013〕 There seems to have been an early marriage to a William Thomas Meikle, but details are scant.〔 In 1922, Dorothy left Australia for London in search of a singing or acting career. Not being successful there, she went to New York, where she joined the cast of ''André Charlot's London Revue of 1924'', an English musical starring Beatrice Lillie and Gertrude Lawrence. She toured the United States and Canada for a year as Lillie's understudy. In 1925, she married Henry Jacobson, a New York businessman, with whom she had two children, Henry Jacobson and Susan Blanchard, who would later marry to actors Henry Fonda, Michael Wager and Richard Widmark. While still married to Jacobson, albeit unhappily, Dorothy met Oscar Hammerstein II, whose own marriage was also unhappy. They fell in love, and divorced their spouses to marry in 1929. Oscar also had two children from his first marriage: William Hammerstein and Alice Mathias. His marriage to Dorothy lasted until his death in 1960. They had a son together, James Hammerstein. 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「Dorothy Hammerstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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