Bette Midler
Acting
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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Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
Self
The Fabulous Four
Marilyn
The Greatest Night in Pop
Self (archive footage)
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Benita
Hocus Pocus 2
Winifred Sanderson
Lucy and Desi
Self
The Addams Family 2
Grandma (voice)
Parkinson at 50
Self (archive footage)
The Glorias
Bella Abzug
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
Self
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Winifred Sanderson
Coastal Elites
Miriam Nessler
The Addams Family
Grandma (voice)
Camp! The Movie
Self
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
Host
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
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Freak Show
Muv
Bette Midler: One Night Only
Self
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
Self
Six by Sondheim
Mama Rose (archive footage)
20 Feet from Stardom
Self
Parental Guidance
Diane Decker
Casting By
Self
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
Self
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Kitty Galore (voice)
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
Self
The Divine Miss M in Performance
Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
The Women
Leah Miller
Then She Found Me
Bernice Graves
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Self
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
Self - Narrator
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
Self
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Divine Bette Midler
Self
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
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Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
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The Stepford Wives
Bobbie Markowitz
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
Self
What Women Want
Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
Self
Drowning Mona
Mona Dearly
Isn't She Great
Jacqueline Susann
Fantasia 2000
Self - Host
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
Self
Jackie's Back!
Bette Midler
Get Bruce!
Self
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
Self (archive footage)
That Old Feeling
Lilly Leonard
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Self
The First Wives Club
Brenda Morelli Cushman
Get Shorty
Doris Saphron
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Self
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Self
A Century of Cinema
Self
Gypsy
Rose Hovick
Hocus Pocus
Winifred Sanderson
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
Self
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
For the Boys
Dixie Leonard
Scenes from a Mall
Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Self
The Earth Day Special
Mother Earth
Stella
Stella Claire
The Lottery
Woman
Beaches
CC Bloom
Oliver & Company
Georgette (voice)
Mickey's 60th Birthday
Self
Big Business
Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
Outrageous Fortune
Sandy Brozinsky
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Self (Interviewee)
Ruthless People
Barbara Stone
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Barbara Whiteman
Women in Rock
Self
Live Aid
Self
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Self
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
Self
Bette Midler: No Frills
Herself
Jinxed!
Bonita Friml
Divine Madness
Self - The Divine Miss M
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Self (archive footage)
The Rose
Mary Rose Foster
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
Self - Host
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Self
The Bette Midler Show
Self - Host
The Thorn
Virgin Mary
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
Self
Goodbye, Columbus
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
The Detective
Woman at Party
Hawaii
Passenger (uncredited)