Multi Grammy Award-winning singer/comedienne/author who has also proven herself to be a very capable actress in a string of both dramatic and comedic roles, Bette Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945. She studied drama at the University of Hawaii and got her musical career started by performing in gay bathhouses with piano accompaniment from Barry Manilow...See full bio »
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Bette Midler
(2004)
(lyrics: "One for My Baby and One More for the Road" / performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings", "From a Distance", "One for My Baby and One More for the Road", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Bed of Roses", "Do You Want to Dance", "The Rose")
1997Bette Midler in Concert: Diva Las Vegas
(TV special documentary)
(performer: "Friends", "I Look Good", "Miss Otis Regrets", "Spring Can Really Hung You Up the Most", "Bed of Roses", "You Don't Own Me", "The Rose", "Burlesque - Pretty Legs & Great Big Knockers", "Burlesque - Rose's Turn", "Drinking Again", "MacArthur Park", "Infomercial", "Call Me", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Bigotry", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "In the Navy", "The Greatest Love of All", "New York, New York", "Ukelele Lady", "From a Distance", "Do Yoy Wanna Dance", "To Comfort You", "Stay with Me", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "The Story of Us")
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Episode dated 22 May 1992
(1992)
(lyrics: "One for My Baby and One More for the Road" / performer: "One for My Baby and One More for the Road", "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" 1941 - uncredited)
1991For the Boys
(performer: "Billy-A-Dick", "Dixie's Dream", "I Remember You", "For All We Know", "Every Road Leads Back to You", "P.S. I Love You", "In My Life", "Stuff Like That There", "Baby, It's Cold Outside")
1989Abandonada
(performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings")
1988Beaches
(music: "Otto Titsling", "Oh Industry" / lyrics: "Otto Titsling", "Oh Industry" / performer: "Under The Boardwalk", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "I've Still Got My Health", "I Think It's Going To Rain Today", "Otto Titsling", "I Know You By Heart", "The Glory Of Love", "Baby Mine", "Oh Industry")
1982The Mondo Beyondo Show
(TV movie)
(writer: "Mondo's Theme" / performer: "Mondo's Theme")
1980Divine Madness
(documentary)
(performer: "Big Noise from Winnetka", "Paradise", "Shiver Me Timbers", "Fire Down Below", "Stay with Me", "My Mother's Eyes", "Chapel of Love", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "E Street Shuffle", "Summer The First Time", "Leader of the Pack", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "I Shall Be Released", "The Rose")
1979The Rose
(performer: "Whose Side Are You On", "Midnight in Memphis", "When a Man Loves a Woman", "Sold My Soul to Rock 'N' Roll", "Keep On Rockin'", "Love Me with A Feeling", "Stay With Me", "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", "The Rose", "Fire Down Below")
1976The Bette Midler Show
(TV movie)
(writer: "Fiesta in Rio" - uncredited, "You're Moving Out Today" - uncredited / performer: "Friends" - uncredited, "Oh My My" - uncredited, "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman" - uncredited, "Birds" - uncredited, "In the Mood" - uncredited, "Hurry on Down" - uncredited, "Shiver Me Timbers" - uncredited, "Around the World" - uncredited, "Istanbul" - uncredited, "Fiesta in Rio" - uncredited, "South Seas Scene" - uncredited, "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" - uncredited, "Lullaby of Broadway" - uncredited, "You're Moving Out Today" - uncredited, "Delta Dawn" - uncredited, "Long John Blues" - uncredited, "Hello in There" - uncredited, "Up the Ladder to the Roof" - uncredited, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" - uncredited)
1997The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
(TV special)
Herself - Winner: Best Performance in a Variety or Music Program and Nominee: Best Variety, Music or Comedy Special
[on growing up in Hawaii]: We were very poor, it was a hard-scrabble childhood, not particularly happy. The best part was nature, which is so intense there. The sky is bright blue, the clouds are puffy, the grass is lush, it feels like you can touch the stars. But the people were not very nice. I was a white kid in a mostly Asian neighbourhood...
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Trivia:
Despite playing her daughter in
Beaches, Midler is just 5 years younger than Lainie Kazan in real life.
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