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Bette Midler (/bɛt ˈmɪdlər/ bet MID-lər; born December 1, 1945) is 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 before 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 at the Continental Baths. In this local gay bathh…
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Bette Midler (/bɛt ˈmɪdlər/ bet MID-lər; born December 1, 1945) is 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 before 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 at the Continental Baths. In this local gay bathhouse, 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 Multi-Platinum albums from the 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 Rose (1979), which won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress. She went on to star in numerous films, including Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Ruthless People (1986), Outrageous Fortune (1987), Big Business (1988), Beaches (1988), Stella (1990), Hocus Pocus (1993) and its sequel (2022), The First Wives Club (1996), The Stepford Wives (2004), Parental Guidance (2012), and The Addams Family (2019) and its sequel (2021). Midler also had starring roles in For the Boys (1991) and Gypsy (1993), winning two additional Golden Globe Awards for these films and receiving a second Academy Award nomination for the former. Midler held a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with the show Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On from 2008 to 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bette Midler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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BODY OF WORK
Bette Midler's Filmography
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as Fairy Godmother (voice)
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
as Self
The Fabulous Four
as Marilyn
The Greatest Night in Pop
as Self (archive footage)
Sitting in Bars with Cake
as Benita
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)
Hocus Pocus 2
as Winifred Sanderson
Lucy and Desi
as Self
The Addams Family 2
as Grandma (voice)
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
The Glorias
as Bella Abzug
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
as Self
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
as Winifred Sanderson
Coastal Elites
as Miriam Nessler
The Addams Family
as Grandma (voice)
Camp! The Movie
as Self
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
as Host
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
as Self
Freak Show
as Muv
No Poster
Bette Midler: One Night Only
as Self
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
as Self
Six by Sondheim
as Mama Rose (archive footage)
20 Feet from Stardom
as Self
Parental Guidance
as Diane Decker
Casting By
as Self
Vito
as Self (archive footage)
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
as Self
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
as Kitty Galore (voice)
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
as Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
No Poster
The Divine Miss M in Performance
as Self
The Women
as Leah Miller
Then She Found Me
as Bernice Graves
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
as Self
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
as Self - Narrator
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
as Self
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
as Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
The Divine Bette Midler
as Self
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
as Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
as Self
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
as Self
The Stepford Wives
as Bobbie Markowitz
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
as Self
50 Years of NBC Late Night
as Self (archive footage)
What Women Want
as Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
as Self
Drowning Mona
as Mona Dearly
Isn't She Great
as Jacqueline Susann
Fantasia 2000
as Self - Host
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
as Self
Jackie's Back!
as Bette Midler
Get Bruce!
as Self
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
as Self (archive footage)
That Old Feeling
as Lilly Leonard
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
as Self
The First Wives Club
as Brenda Morelli Cushman
Get Shorty
as Doris Saphron
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
as Self
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
as Self
Gypsy
as Rose Hovick
A Century of Cinema
as Self
Hocus Pocus
as Winifred Sanderson
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
as Self
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
For the Boys
as Dixie Leonard
Scenes from a Mall
as Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer
No Poster
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
as Self
The Earth Day Special
as Mother Earth
Stella
as Stella Claire
The Lottery
as Woman
Beaches
as CC Bloom
Oliver & Company
as Georgette (voice)
Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Self
Big Business
as Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
as Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
Outrageous Fortune
as Sandy Brozinsky
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self (Interviewee)
Ruthless People
as Barbara Stone
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Barbara Whiteman
Women in Rock
as Self
Live Aid
as Self
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
as Self
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
as Self
No Poster
Bette Midler: No Frills
as Herself
Jinxed!
as Bonita Friml
Divine Madness
as Self - The Divine Miss M
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
as Self (archive footage)
The Rose
as Mary Rose Foster
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
as Self - Host
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
as Self
The Bette Midler Show
as Self - Host
The Thorn
as Virgin Mary
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
as Self
Goodbye, Columbus
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
The Detective
as Woman at Party
Hawaii
as Passenger (uncredited)
No Poster
Cut Off
Hocus Pocus 3
as Winifred Sanderson
