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Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is a singer,
actress, and comedian. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii,
she majored in drama at the University of Hawaii,
but got her start singing in the Continental
Baths, a gay bathhouse in New York City, where,
among others, she became friends with Barry
Manilow, who was her piano accompanist.  He
produced her first major album, The Divine Miss M
(also the name by which she is known to her fans.)

Midler appeared in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway
theatre|Broadway, but it was her singing that made
her a star. In 1974, she received a Special Tony
Award for her great addition to Broadway.  She was
tapped for the role of the 1960s drug-addled Rock
and roll|rock music star in The Rose (movie)|The
Rose, modeled after Janis Joplin, for which she
was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Actress.

In 1986, director Paul Mazursky cast her in Down
and Out in Beverly Hills, beginning a successful
comedic acting career.  She appeared in such other
popular comedies as Ruthless People, Outrageous
Fortune and Big Business (movie)|Big Business.

In 1988 she starred in the film Beaches
(movie)|Beaches. She has won four Grammy Awards
including the 1973 Best New Artist and the
prestigious Record of the Year in 1989 for the
soaring # 1 hit "Wind Beneath My Wings". Her
rendition of 1990|1990's "From a Distance" also
earned her a Grammy and is another of her most
popular songs. In 2004 she reunited with Manilow
to record Bette Midler Records the Rosemary
Clooney Songbook, which was nominated for a Grammy
and was one of her best-selling albums in 20
years. 

When The American Film Institute announced "The
100 years of the Greatest Songs" on June 22, 2004,
two of her hits were selected by the board: "Wind
Beneath My Wings" (#44) and "The Rose" (#83).

Other films include Scenes From a Mall, For the
Boys (for which she was again nominated for an
Academy Award), Hocus Pocus (movie)|Hocus Pocus,
The First Wives Club, and The Stepford Wives. Her
television work includes a production of Gypsy: A
Musical Fable|Gypsy and her sitcom Bette. She won
an Emmy Award in 1993 for her memorable
performance on the second to last episode of The
Tonight Show as hosted by Johnny Carson.

In 1995, Midler founded the New York Restoration
Project, a non-profit organization with the goal
of cleaning up parks, gardens, and rivers in
neglected areas of New York City. These include
Highbridge Park, Fort Washington Park, and Fort
Tryon Park in upper Manhattan. NYRP uses
Americorps volunteers to do the actual clean-up
work and provides them with money for college in
return. Although Midler was heavily involved with
the organization during it's first years and
advertisements show photos of her working in the
parks, Americorps volunteers who have worked with
NYRP over the past several years report that
they've never personally met her.



==Filmography==
*Hawaii_film|Hawaii (1966)
*Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972) (voice
only)
*The Thorn (1974)
*The Rose (1979)
*Divine Madness! (1980)
*Jinxed! (1982)
*Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
*Ruthless People (1986)
*The Lottery (1987) (short subject)
*Outrageous Fortune (1987)
*Big Business (1988)
*Oliver & Company (1988) (voice)
*Beaches (1988)
*Stella (1990)
*Scenes from a Mall (1991)
*For the Boys (1991)
*Hocus Pocus (movie)|Hocus Pocus (1993)
*A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
*Get Shorty (1995) (Cameo)
*The First Wives Club (1996)
*That Old Feeling (1997)
*Get Bruce (1999) (documentary)
*Fantasia/2000 (1999)
*Drowning Mona (2000)
*Isn't She Great (2000)
*What Women Want (2000)
*The Stepford Wives (2004)
*In the Pink (2007) (currently in pre-production)

==Albums==

*1973 The Divine Miss M
*1973 Bette Midler (album)|Bette Midler
*1976 Songs for the New Depression
*1977 Live at Last (Bette Midler album)|Live at
Last 
*1977 Broken Blossom
*1979 Thighs and Whispers
*1979 The Rose soundtrack
*1980 Divine Madness
*1983 No Frills (Bette Midler album)
*1985 Mud Will Be Flung Tonight
*1988 Beaches soundtrack
*1990 Some People's Lives 
*1991 For the Boys soundtrack
*1993 Gypsy soundtrack
*1993 Experience the Divine
*1995 Bette of Roses
*1998 Bathhouse Betty
*2000 Bette
*2003 Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney
Songbook

==See also==
*List of number-one hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the Hot
100 (US)
*List of number-one dance hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the US
Dance chart

==External links==

*imdb name|id=0000541|name=Bette Midler

 

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Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is a singer,
actress, and comedian. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii,
she majored in drama at the University of Hawaii,
but got her start singing in the Continental
Baths, a gay bathhouse in New York City, where,
among others, she became friends with Barry
Manilow, who was her piano accompanist.  He
produced her first major album, The Divine Miss M
(also the name by which she is known to her fans.)

Her first role was in Hawaii (1966 movie)|Hawaii
in 1966, as a passenger who is shown to be
seasick. Midler appeared in Fiddler on the Roof on
Broadway theatre|Broadway, but it was her singing
that made her a star. In 1974, she received a
Special Tony Award for her great addition to
Broadway.  She was tapped for the role of the
1960s drug-addled Rock and roll|rock music star in
The Rose (movie)|The Rose, modeled after Janis
Joplin, for which she was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actress.

Bette married Martin von Haselberg on December 16,
1984.  They had a daughter Sophie in 1986.

In 1986, director Paul Mazursky cast her in Down
and Out in Beverly Hills, beginning a successful
comedic acting career.  She appeared in such other
popular comedies as Ruthless People, Outrageous
Fortune and Big Business (movie)|Big Business.

In 1988 she starred in the film Beaches
(movie)|Beaches. She has won four Grammy Awards
including the 1973 Best New Artist and the
prestigious Record of the Year in 1989 for the
soaring # 1 hit "Wind Beneath My Wings". Her
rendition of 1990|1990's "From a Distance" also
earned her a Grammy and is another of her most
popular songs. In 2004 she reunited with Manilow
to record Bette Midler Records the Rosemary
Clooney Songbook, which was nominated for a Grammy
and was one of her best-selling albums in 20
years. 

When The American Film Institute announced "The
100 years of the Greatest Songs" on June 22, 2004,
two of her hits were selected by the board: "Wind
Beneath My Wings" (#44) and "The Rose" (#83).

Other films include Scenes From a Mall, For the
Boys (for which she was again nominated for an
Academy Award), Hocus Pocus (movie)|Hocus Pocus,
The First Wives Club, and The Stepford Wives. Her
television work includes a production of Gypsy: A
Musical Fable|Gypsy and her sitcom Bette. She won
an Emmy Award in 1993 for her memorable
performance on the second to last episode of The
Tonight Show as hosted by Johnny Carson.

In 1995, Midler founded the New York Restoration
Project, a non-profit organization with the goal
of cleaning up parks, gardens, and rivers in
neglected areas of New York City. These include
Highbridge Park, Fort Washington Park, and Fort
Tryon Park in upper Manhattan. NYRP uses
Americorps volunteers to do the actual clean-up
work and provides them with money for college in
return. Although Midler was heavily involved with
the organization during it's first years and
advertisements show photos of her working in the
parks, Americorps volunteers who have worked with
NYRP over the past several years report that
they've never personally met her.



==Filmography==
*Hawaii (1966 movie)|Hawaii (1966)
*Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972) (voice
only)
*The Thorn (1974)
*The Rose (1979)
*Divine Madness! (1980)
*Jinxed! (1982)
*Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
*Ruthless People (1986)
*The Lottery (1987) (short subject)
*Outrageous Fortune (1987)
*Big Business (1988)
*Oliver & Company (1988) (voice)
*Beaches (1988)
*Stella (1990)
*Scenes from a Mall (1991)
*For the Boys (1991)
*Hocus Pocus (movie)|Hocus Pocus (1993)
*A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
*Get Shorty (1995) (Cameo)
*The First Wives Club (1996)
*That Old Feeling (1997)
*Get Bruce (1999) (documentary)
*Fantasia/2000 (1999)
*Drowning Mona (2000)
*Isn't She Great (2000)
*What Women Want (2000)
*The Stepford Wives (2004)
*In the Pink (2007) (currently in pre-production)

==Albums==

*1973 The Divine Miss M
*1973 Bette Midler (album)|Bette Midler
*1976 Songs for the New Depression
*1977 Live at Last (Bette Midler album)|Live at
Last 
*1977 Broken Blossom
*1979 Thighs and Whispers
*1979 The Rose soundtrack
*1980 Divine Madness
*1983 No Frills (Bette Midler album)
*1985 Mud Will Be Flung Tonight
*1988 Beaches soundtrack
*1990 Some People's Lives 
*1991 For the Boys soundtrack
*1993 Gypsy soundtrack
*1993 Experience the Divine
*1995 Bette of Roses
*1998 Bathhouse Betty
*2000 Bette
*2003 Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney
Songbook

==See also==
*List of number-one hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the Hot
100 (US)
*List of number-one dance hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the US
Dance chart

==External links==

*imdb name|id=0000541|name=Bette Midler

 

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Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is a singer,
actress, and comedian. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii,
she majored in drama at the University of Hawaii,
but got her start singing in the Continental
Baths, a gay bathhouse in New York City, where,
among others, she became friends with Barry
Manilow, who was her piano accompanist.  He
produced her first major album, The Divine Miss M
(also the name by which she is known to her fans.)

Her first role was in Hawaii (1966 movie)|Hawaii
in 1966, as a passenger who is shown to be
seasick. Midler appeared in Fiddler on the Roof on
Broadway theatre|Broadway, but it was her singing
that made her a star. In 1974, she received a
Special Tony Award for her great addition to
Broadway.  She was tapped for the role of the
1960s drug-addled Rock and roll|rock music star in
The Rose (movie)|The Rose, modeled after Janis
Joplin, for which she was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actress.

Bette married Martin von Haselberg on December 16,
1984.  They had a daughter Sophie in 1986.

In 1986, director Paul Mazursky cast her in Down
and Out in Beverly Hills, beginning a successful
comedic acting career.  She appeared in such other
popular comedies as Ruthless People, Outrageous
Fortune and Big Business (movie)|Big Business.

In 1988 she starred in the film Beaches
(movie)|Beaches. She has won four Grammy Awards
including the 1973 Best New Artist and the
prestigious Record of the Year in 1989 for the
soaring # 1 hit "Wind Beneath My Wings". Her
rendition of 1990|1990's "From a Distance" also
earned her a Grammy and is another of her most
popular songs. In 2004 she reunited with Manilow
to record Bette Midler Records the Rosemary
Clooney Songbook, which was nominated for a Grammy
and was one of her best-selling albums in 20
years. 

When The American Film Institute announced "The
100 years of the Greatest Songs" on June 22, 2004,
two of her hits were selected by the board: "Wind
Beneath My Wings" (#44) and "The Rose" (#83).

Other films include Scenes From a Mall, For the
Boys (for which she was again nominated for an
Academy Award), Hocus Pocus (movie)|Hocus Pocus,
The First Wives Club, and The Stepford Wives. Her
television work includes a production of Gypsy: A
Musical Fable|Gypsy and her sitcom Bette. She won
an Emmy Award in 1993 for her memorable
performance on the second to last episode of The
Tonight Show as hosted by Johnny Carson.

In 1995, Midler founded the New York Restoration
Project, a non-profit organization with the goal
of cleaning up parks, gardens, and rivers in
neglected areas of New York City. These include
Highbridge Park, Fort Washington Park, and Fort
Tryon Park in upper Manhattan. NYRP uses
Americorps volunteers to do the actual clean-up
work and provides them with money for college in
return. Although Midler was heavily involved with
the organization during it's first years and
advertisements show photos of her working in the
parks, Americorps volunteers who have worked with
NYRP over the past several years report that
they've never personally met her.



==Filmography==
*Hawaii (1966 movie)|Hawaii (1966)
*Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972) (voice
only)
*The Thorn (1974)
*The Rose (1979)
*Divine Madness! (1980)
*Jinxed! (1982)
*Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
*Ruthless People (1986)
*The Lottery (1987) (short subject)
*Outrageous Fortune (1987)
*Big Business (1988)
*Oliver & Company (1988) (voice)
*Beaches (1988)
*Stella (1990)
*Scenes from a Mall (1991)
*For the Boys (1991)
*Hocus Pocus (movie)|Hocus Pocus (1993)
*A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
*Get Shorty (1995) (Cameo)
*The First Wives Club (1996)
*That Old Feeling (1997)
*Get Bruce (1999) (documentary)
*Fantasia/2000 (1999)
*Drowning Mona (2000)
*Isn't She Great (2000)
*What Women Want (2000)
*The Stepford Wives (2004)
*In the Pink (2007) (currently in pre-production)

==Albums==

*1973 The Divine Miss M
*1973 Bette Midler (album)|Bette Midler
*1976 Songs for the New Depression
*1977 Live at Last (Bette Midler album)|Live at
Last 
*1977 Broken Blossom
*1979 Thighs and Whispers
*1979 The Rose soundtrack
*1980 Divine Madness
*1983 No Frills (Bette Midler album)
*1985 Mud Will Be Flung Tonight
*1988 Beaches soundtrack
*1990 Some People's Lives 
*1991 For the Boys soundtrack
*1993 Gypsy soundtrack
*1993 Experience the Divine
*1995 Bette of Roses
*1998 Bathhouse Betty
*2000 Bette
*2003 Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney
Songbook

==See also==
*List of number-one hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the Hot
100 (US)
*List of number-one dance hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the US
Dance chart

==External links==

*imdb name|id=0000541|name=Bette Midler