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:''For similar names, see Kaye Adams (disambiguation)'' Katherine "Kay" Corleone (née Adams) (born 1924) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's ''The Godfather''. She was portrayed by Diane Keaton in Francis Ford Coppola's trilogy of films based on the novel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Godfather (1972) )〕 ==Fictional biography== Kay is a native of Hanover, New Hampshire, and the only child of a Baptist minister and his wife. She is the longtime girlfriend and eventual wife of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), the youngest son of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), the head of the Corleone crime family. In 1945, while attending Dartmouth College, Kay met and fell in love with Michael, also a student there. As a non-Italian, she is an outsider to the Corleones' world, and symbolizes Michael's initial desire to live a more Americanized life, separate from his family's. When she and Michael attend his sister, Connie's (Talia Shire) wedding, they sit at a table away from the family. In the book, the other guests notice how Kay's manner is freer than expected from an unmarried woman. Kay is initially unaware that the Corleones are a powerful Mafia family. In the novel, Michael at first attempts to explain his father to her by depicting him as a somewhat unethical business man. When the famous singer Johnny Fontane (Al Martino) arrives at Connie's wedding reception, Kay, a fan, is surprised that Michael knows him, then stunned when he relates how his father "helped" his godson Johnny's early career by threatening to kill his manager unless he released Fontane from his contract. After a failed assassination attempt on his father, Michael murders Virgil Sollozzo (Al Lettieri) and Captain Marc McCluskey (Sterling Hayden) a corrupt NYPD cop on Sollozzo's payroll. Michael flees to Sicily. While hiding there, Michael falls in love with and marries a young local woman, Apollonia (Simonetta Stefanelli). Kay has no knowledge of Michael's whereabouts and eventually returns to her hometown to work as a teacher. She asks Corleone family ''consigliere'' Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) to deliver a letter to Michael, but Hagen refuses lest it be used in court proceedings as proof the family had "knowledge of his whereabouts". During this time, Kay develops a close relationship with Michael's mother, Carmela (Morgana King). Apollonia is killed in a car bombing targeting Michael. After recovering from his injuries, he returns to the United States. More than a year following his return, Michael seeks out Kay, wanting them to reunite, although she is dismayed that he now works for his father. They marry after he promises the Corleone family will be completely legitimate within five years. In the novel, Kay and Michael reunite after Kay phones Carmela Corleone. Carmela informs Kay that Michael has returned home and invites Kay to the Corleone house to see him. Michael wants to marry her, but explains that until the family becomes fully legitimate, he cannot share anything about his business with her. At the time, it appears that Kay knows nothing about Michael's previous marriage. In the novel, he admits to being with one other woman since their separation. Kay and Michael marry and have two children, Anthony and Mary. They are born within two years of each other, leading Michael to joke that Kay is "more Italian than Yankee." Kay retorts that Michael is "more Yankee than Italian" because he always takes his work home with him. In the novel, they have two boys. In 1955, when Michael becomes Don after Vito's death, he executes their joint plan to wipe out the Dons of the other Five Families. When a distraught Connie accuses Michael of orchestrating the wave of murders — including her abusive husband, Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo) — Kay asks Michael if it is true. Michael denies any involvement. However, immediately after, Kay observes Michael receiving his ''caporegime'', Peter Clemenza, (Richard Castellano) who respectfully greets him as the new Don. Kay realizes Connie was being truthful, and that Michael has succeeded his father in every way. In the novel, Kay flees to New Hampshire with their children, despite Connie recanting her accusations. Hagen, at Michael's request, persuades her to return. Hagen risks his own life by revealing to Kay some Corleone family secrets and "hypothetical" reasons for Michael's actions. Kay converts to Catholicism, attending Mass daily to pray for her husband's soul (just as Mama Corleone had done for Vito). An early draft of the film's script ended with Kay lighting candles for Michael.〔Puzo, Mario and Coppola, Francis Ford. (1971, 29 March). ''(THE GODFATHER )'', (The Internet Movie Script Database )〕 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「Kay Adams-Corleone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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