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Georgiana Emma Drew (July 11, 1856 – July 2, 1893), aka Georgie Drew Barrymore, was an American stage actress and comedienne and the matriarch of the Barrymore acting family.〔(Georgianna Emma Drew Barrymore - ''North American Theatre Online'' )〕 ==Life and career== Born in Philadelphia, her family — parents John Drew and Louisa Lane Drew, brothers John Drew, Jr. and Sidney, and sister Louisa — were all actors with the exception of Louisa. She made her theatrical debut in 1872 in ''The Ladies' Rattle''. She followed John Jr. to New York, where she acted in many Broadway hits, such as ''Pique'' and ''As You Like It''. In ''Pique'' she met a young English actor, Maurice Barrymore, whom she married on December 31, 1876.〔''Great Times, Good Times: The Odyssey of Maurice Barrymore'' c.1977 by James Kotsilibas Davis〕 They had three children: Lionel, Ethel, and John. She is a great-grandmother and namesake of actress Drew Barrymore. According to a 2004 A&E ''Biography'' piece, the marriage, happy at first, became rocky as Maurice indulged in numerous affairs. Georgie even filed for divorce, but they reconciled. He asked her to tour with him and Helena Modjeska in a play he wrote. Learning that he and Helena had resumed their romance, Georgie, who had been given ownership of the play by Maurice, forced her hand by closing it. Helena's husband, its producer, sued her. The real reason for Georgie's actions never got into the press. In 1890, she had a great success in ''The Senator'' co-starring William H. Crane and, in 1891, as one of the two widows in ''Mr. Wilkinson's Widows''. Her stage career at this time was being managed by a young up-and-coming producer named Charles Frohman. Frohman would play a big part in managing the early careers of her three children, as well as her brother John Drew. In December 1891, illness forced her to leave the stage. Suffering from what turned out to be tuberculosis then called "consumption", she traveled West in 1893 with Ethel to take a cure, but she died a few months later in Santa Barbara, California.〔(Georgie Drew Barrymore Dead; Her Death Announced from Santa Barbara Cal., Where She Had Been for Her Health );New York Times, July 3, 1893; Retrieved February 3, 2015〕 Penicillin, which had yet to be invented, could have easily saved her life. Reportedly her last words were, "Oh my poor kids!, what shall ever become of them" were related to her son John in the 1920s by an elderly woman who had been staying at the same boarding house in Santa Barbara as Georgie and Ethel.〔Barrymore, John; ''Confessions of an Actor'' c.1926(John Barrymore recalls the elderly woman telling him about Georgie when he was visiting Nassau(probably filming ''The Lotus Eater''(1921).)〕 It was 13-year-old Ethel's responsibility to see that her mother's remains were returned to Philadelphia for burial by Mrs Drew and Maurice, who met Ethel's train in Chicago. In 1893, this coast-to-coast journey would have lasted a week.〔(''Familiar Chats with the Queens of the Stage'' page 312 by Alan Dale c.1890; ''transcript'' presented online by archive.org; 'Alan Dale interviews Georgiana Drew & Maurice Barrymore in their New York City apartment' ( *Dale makes assertion the couples three children ''Lionel,Ethel,John'' will never set foot on the stage.) )〕 All three of her children would die within a hundred miles of where their mother died at Santa Barbara back in 1893. 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「Georgiana Drew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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