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Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in films, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century. During her long career, she made 73 films, collaborating with Fred Astaire as a romantic lead actress and dancing partner in a series of 10 Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. She achieved great success on her own in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in ''Kitty Foyle'' (1940). She ranks #14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of female stars of classic American cinema. ==Early life== Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath on July 16, 1911 in her mother's rented home at 100 Moore Street, Independence, Missouri. She was the only living child of William "Eddins" McMath, an electrical engineer,〔 and his wife, Lela Emogene (née Owens; 1891–1977).〔〔(Notable American women: a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth ... ) By Susan Ware〕 She was of Scottish, Welsh, and English ancestry.〔http://famouskin.com/pedigree.php?name=6411+ginger+rogers&ahnum=1〕 Her mother did not want her born in a hospital, having lost a previous child there.〔 Her parents had separated before she was born,〔 but her grandparents, Walter and Saphrona (née Ball) Owens, lived nearby in Kansas City.〔 After unsuccessfully trying to become a family again, McMath kidnapped his daughter twice.〔 Rogers said that she never saw her natural born father again.〔 Her mother divorced her father soon thereafter. In 1915, Rogers moved in with her grandparents while her mother made a trip to Hollywood in an effort to get an essay she had written made into a film.〔 Lela succeeded and continued to write scripts for Fox Studios.〔 Rogers was to remain close to her grandfather (much later, when she was a star in 1939, she bought him a home at 5115 Greenbush Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California, so he could be close to her while she was filming at the studios). One of Rogers' young cousins, Helen, had a hard time pronouncing "Virginia", shortening it to "Badinda"; the nickname soon became "Ginga". When "Ginga" was nine years old, her mother remarried, to John Logan Rogers. Ginger took the surname Rogers, although she was never legally adopted. They lived in Fort Worth, Texas. Her mother became a theater critic for a local newspaper, the ''Fort Worth Record''. She attended, but did not graduate from, Fort Worth's Central High School (later renamed R.L. Paschal High School). As a teenager, Rogers thought of becoming a school teacher, but with her mother's interest in Hollywood and the theater, her early exposure to the theater increased. Waiting for her mother in the wings of the Majestic Theatre, she began to sing and dance along with the performers on stage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-london/plain/A42130333 )〕 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「Ginger Rogers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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