BETTE MIDLER

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Full Name: Bette Davis Midler

Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA
Known For: Known as “The Devine Miss M”.

Instruments: Voice, Actress
Music Styles: Easy Listening, Cabaret

Location: United States of America

Date Born: 1st December 1945
Location Born: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Photo Comments: The photo above is believed to be public domain. Photo by Alan Light.

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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE

Bette Midler

Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945), also known by her informal stage name The Divine Miss M, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer. In a career spanning almost half a century, Midler has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 30 million records worldwide and along with that has also received four Gold, three Platinum and three Multiplatinum albums by RIAA.

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 then, she has released 13 studio albums as a solo artist. Throughout her career, many of her songs became hits on the record charts, including her renditions of “The Rose”, “Wind Beneath My Wings”, “Do You Wanna Dance?”, “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”, and “From a Distance”. In 2008, she signed a contract with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to perform a series of shows titled Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On, which ended in January 2010.

Midler made her motion picture debut in 1979 with The Rose, which earned her a Golden Globe and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress of 1980. In the following years she starred in a string of hit films that includes Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Outrageous Fortune, Beaches, The First Wives Club, and The Stepford Wives, as well as For the Boys and Gypsy, the latter two of which she won two further Golden Globe Awards for in 1992 and 1994.

Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii,where hers was one of the few Jewish families in a mostly Asian neighborhood. Her mother, Ruth (née Schindel; b. 1916 New Jersey), was a seamstress and housewife, and her father, Fred Midler (born 1912 in New Jersey), worked at a Navy base in Hawaii as a painter, and was also a housepainter. She was named after actress Bette Davis, though Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one, /ˈbɛt/. She was raised in Aiea and attended Radford High School, in Honolulu. She was voted “Most Talkative” in the 1961 school Hoss Election, and “Most Dramatic” in her senior year (class of 1963). Midler majored in drama at the University of Hawaii, but left after three semesters. She earned money in the 1966 film Hawaii as an extra, playing an uncredited seasick passenger named Miss David Buff.

Midler married artist Martin von Haselberg on December 16, 1984, about six weeks after their first meeting. Their daughter, Sophie Frederica Alohilani Von Haselberg, was born on November 14, 1986.

Hits include.

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Chapel of Love
Do You Want to Dance
Friends
From a Distance
Hello in There
In My Life
Miss Otis Regrets
One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
Only in Miami
The Rose
Shiver Me Timbers
When a Man Loves a Woman
Wind Beneath My Wings

Her films include

2007 – Then She Found Me
2004 – The Stepford Wives
2000 – What Women Want
1999 – Fantasia/2000
1999 – Isn’t She Great
1997 – That Old Feeling
1996 – The First Wives Club
1994 – Gypsy
1993 – Hocus Pocus
1991 – For the Boys
1990 – Scenes from a Mall
1990 – Stella
1988 – Beaches
1988 – Big Business
1988 – Oliver & Company
1987 – Outrageous Fortune
1986 – Ruthless People
1986 – Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1982 – Jinxed!
1980 – Divine Madness
1979 – The Rose