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English film, stage and television actress (1939-2011)
Bette Midler is an acclaimed American entertainer who has enjoyed a prolific career spanning five decades. She is known for her work as an actress, comedian, singer, and author, and has received numerous accolades, including awards and nominations from the Golden Globes, Grammys, Emmys, and Tonys. Midler rose to fame in the 1970s and has since starred in numerous hit films and released multiple successful albums.
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Bette Midleris an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her five-decade career Midler has received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several off-off-Broadway plays, prior to her engagements in Fiddler on the Roof and Salvation on Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse where she managed to build up a core following. Since 1970, Midler has released 14 studio albums as a solo artist, selling over 30 million records worldwide, and has received four Gold, three Platinum, and three Multiplatinum albums by RIAA. Many of her songs became chart hits, including her renditions of “The Rose”, “Wind Beneath My Wings”, “Do You Want to Dance”, “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”, and “From a Distance”. She won Grammy Awards for Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for “The Rose”, and Record of the Year for “Wind Beneath My Wings”.
Midler made her starring film debut with the musical drama The Roseand its sequeland its sequeland Gypsy (1993), winning two additional Golden Globe Awards for these films and receiving a second Academy Award nomination for the former.
In 2008, Midler signed a contract with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for a residency, Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On, which ended in 2010. She starred in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, which began previews in March 2017 and premiered at the Shubert Theatre in April 2017. The show was her first leading role in a Broadway musical. Midler received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance.
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Bette Midler was born on December 1, 1945 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Bette Midler has received numerous accolades throughout her career, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award.
Bette Midler has released 14 studio albums as a solo artist, selling over 30 million records worldwide.
Some of Bette Midler’s most popular songs include her renditions of ,The Rose,, ,Wind Beneath My Wings,, ,Do You Want to Dance,, ,Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,, and ,From a Distance,.
Bette Midler has starred in numerous films, including The Rose, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune, Big Business, Beaches, Hocus Pocus, The First Wives Club, and The Addams Family.
In 2008, Bette Midler signed a contract with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for a residency called Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On, which ended in 2010.
Bette Midler starred in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, which began previews in March 2017 and premiered at the Shubert Theatre in April 2017. This was her first leading role in a Broadway musical.
20 Quotes by Bette Midler
- 1.
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 2.
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 3.
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 4.
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 5.
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it’s so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn’t want to – or can’t – join the Big Parade.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 6.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 7.
If I could be granted a wish, I’d shine in your eye like a jewel.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 8.
I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 9.
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 10.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 11.
I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It’s helped me a lot.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 12.
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 13.
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 14.
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 15.
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 16.
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 17.
I’m working my way toward divinity.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 18.
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 19.
I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- 20.
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)