Bette Midler

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Bette Midler (1990)

Bette M. Midler (born December 1, 1945 in Honolulu, Hawaii ) is an American singer , actress , comedian and author who has been one of the most successful entertainers in the USA since the mid-1960s. It has sold over 35 million records worldwide and has won almost all of the major American show business awards. These include three Grammy Awards , four Golden Globes , three Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards . Her most successful songs include The Rose (1980),From a Distance (1990) and their only number one hit in the US , The Wind Beneath My Wings .

life and career

Midler, who was interested in singing as a teenager, grew up in a Jewish family in Hawaii . Her parents, Fred and Ruth Midler, were inspired by Bette Davis for their daughter's name . In the 1960s, Bette Midler went to New York . In 1966 she played a seasick passenger in the movie Hawaii with Julie Andrews and got the role of "Tseitel" in the Broadway - Musical Fiddler on the Roof . In the following years she performed as a singer in bathhouses and night clubs. Barry Manilow became her companion , with whom she gave musical comedy programs that quickly became insider tips in the New York scene. Midler established herself as an interpreter mainly of songs from the 1940s. In 1972 she was able to release her first album The Divine Miss M , which was based on a stage show of the same name and for which she received her first gold record . In 1974 she was awarded the Grammy for Best New Artist.

The 1970s were characterized by successful albums and unusual stage programs that made them an enfant terrible of American show business . In 1979 Midler got her first leading role in The Rose after minor film work , which fictionally traces the unscrupulous marketing and early drug death of the rock and blues singer Janis Joplin . She received two Golden Globes and an Oscar nomination for her sensitive interpretation, and the title song she sang for the film became a top ten hit in the United States.

In 1980 the concert film Divine Madness was released . In the same year, Midler successfully published the book A View from a Broad . The look behind the scenes became a bestseller .

After the Flop Verhext (1982) and a break from cinema of several years, Midler had a number of big box office hits from the mid-1980s that proved her great comedic talent: Zoff in Beverly Hills , The Incredible Abduction of Mad Mrs. Stone (1986), Nothing but Trouble with Guy (1987), Two Times Two and Girlfriends (1988) grossed between $ 40 million and $ 70 million in the United States alone. Her greatest success followed in 1996 with The Devils Club , which grossed over $ 100 million at the box office.

She also continued to record albums and expanded her repertoire to include pop , rock , musical , jazz , chanson and disco . In 1989, the single Wind Beneath My Wings from the soundtrack to the film Girlfriends (with Barbara Hershey ) reached first place in the US charts and was named Single of the Year at the 1990 Grammy Awards . The following year, Midler received another Grammy for her version of From a Distance .

Her show The Showgirl Must Go On started on February 20, 2008 in the Colosseum of the Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas .

From March 2017 to January 2018, Midler was in a revival of the musical Hello, Dolly! first seen in a leading role on Broadway. She received several awards for her portrayal, including the Tony Award in June 2017 . Her successor in the production was Bernadette Peters . At about the same time, the tragic comedy Freak Show , with Midler in a supporting role, was released in US cinemas.

Private

Bette Midler has been married to the actor Martin von Haselberg since December 16, 1984 , with whom she has a daughter, Sophie von Haselberg (* 1986). Sophie is also an actress. Martin von Haselberg joined a. a. in Midler's television program The Mondo Beyondo Show (which was shot in 1982 but only aired in 1988).

Midler is very committed to a “green” New York and in 1995 founded the “New York Restoration Project”.

Filmography

Bette Midler (2010)

Feature films

TV specials

  • 1976: The Bette Midler Show
  • 1977: Ol 'Red Hair Is Back
  • 1984: Art or Bust
  • 1988: The Mondo Beyondo Show
  • 1997: Diva Las Vegas
  • 2010: The Showgirl Must Go On

TV Shows

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1972 The Divine Miss M - - - - US9
platinum
platinum

(76 weeks)US
First published: November 7, 1972
1973 Bette Midler - - - - US6th
gold
gold

(27 weeks)US
First published: November 16, 1973
1976 Songs for the New Depression - - - - US27 (15 weeks)
US
First published: January 8, 1976
1977 Broken Blossom - - - - US51 (14 weeks)
US
First published: November 17, 1977
1979 Thighs and Whispers - - - - US65 (17 weeks)
US
First published: August 1979
1983 No frills DE46 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - - US60 (13 weeks)
US
First published: August 1, 1983
1990 Some People's Lives DE15 (17 weeks)
DE 		AT27 (4 weeks)
AT 		- UK5
gold
gold

(11 weeks)UK 		US6th
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(73 weeks)US
First published: September 4, 1990
1995 Bette of Roses DE74 (4 weeks)
DE 		- - UK55
silver
silver

(8 weeks)UK 		US45
platinum
platinum

(35 weeks)US
First published: July 18, 1995
1998 Bathhouse Betty DE68 (1 week)
DE 		- - - US32
gold
gold

(16 weeks)US
First published: September 15, 1998
2000 Beds - - - - US69 (11 weeks)
US
First published: October 17, 2000
2003 Bette Midler Sings the
Rosemary Clooney Songbook 		- - - - US14th
gold
gold

(22 weeks)US
First published: September 30, 2003
2005 Bette Midler Sings the
Peggy Lee Songbook 		- - - UK41 (3 weeks)
UK 		US10 (9 weeks)
US
First published: October 25, 2005
2006 Cool Yule - - - - US33 (7 weeks)
US
First published: October 10, 2006
2014 It's the girls! DE62 (1 week)
DE 		AT38 (1 week)
AT 		CH62 (1 week)
CH 		UK6th
gold
gold

(15 weeks)UK 		US3 (15 weeks)
US
First published: November 4, 2014

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Stage appearances

  • 1966–1969: Anatevka (musical, Broadway, understudy)
  • 1969–1970: Salvation (Off-Broadway, understudy)
  • 1971: Tommy (rock opera, Seattle )
  • 1973: Bette Midler (concert series, Broadway)
  • 1975: Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell Revue (Revue, Broadway)
  • 1979–1980: Bette! Divine Madness (Concert Series, Broadway)
  • 2002: Short Talks on the Universe (Monologue, Broadway)
  • 2017: Hello, Dolly (Musical, Broadway)

Awards

The following list of prizes and nominations follows the official year counts and category names of the award-giving institutions.

Academy Award

  • 1979 nominated: Best Actress (The Rose)
  • 1991 nominated: Best Actress (For the Boys - Days of Fame, Days of Love)

American Comedy Award

  • Won 1987: Funniest Lead Actress (The Incredible Kidnapping of Mad Mrs. Stone)
  • Won 1987: Funniest Actress of the Year
  • Won 1987: Lifetime Achievement Award for comedic life's work
  • Won 1988: Funniest leading actress (Nothing but trouble with the guy)
  • Won 1989: Funniest Lead Actress (Two by Two)
  • Won 1993: Funniest Actress in a TV Special (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson)
  • Won 1996: Funniest Supporting Actress (Grab Shorty)
  • Won 1998: Funniest Actress in a TV Special (Diva Las Vegas)

British Academy Film Award

Emmy

  • Won 1978: Outstanding Special - Comedy Variety Show or Music (Ol 'Red Hair Is Back)
  • 1978 nominated: Outstanding script in a comedy variety or music special (Ol 'Red Hair Is Back)
  • Won 1992: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety Show or Music Show (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson)
  • 1994 nominated: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special (Gypsy)
  • Won 1997: Outstanding performance in a variety show or music show (Diva Las Vegas)
  • 1997 nominated: Outstanding variety, music or comedy special (Diva Las Vegas)
  • 1998 Nominated: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (Murphy Brown)

Golden Globe Award

Golden Raspberry

  • 1991 nominated: Worst Actress (Stella)
  • 2001 nominated: Worst Lead Actress (Isn't she great?)

Grammy Award

  • 1974 nominated: Album of the Year (The Divine Miss M)
  • Won 1974: Best New Artist
  • 1974 Nominated: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy)
  • 1981 nominated: Single of the Year (The Rose)
  • Won 1981: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (The Rose)
  • Won 1990: Single of the year (Wind Beneath My Wings , together with Arif Mardin)
  • 1990 Nominated: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (Wind Beneath My Wings)
  • 1991 nominated: Single of the year (From a Distance)
  • 1991 nominated: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (From a Distance)
  • 2004 nominated: Best Traditional Pop Singing Album (Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook)
  • 2007 nominated: Best Traditional Pop Singing Album (Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook)
  • 2008 nominated: Best Traditional Pop Singing Album (Cool Yule)

Tony Award

Bette Midler has also been immortalized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

sources

  1. ↑ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bette-midler-is-born-in-honolulu-hawaii , Hawaii
  2. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/actors/bette-midler-i-was-the-biggest-coward-in-the-world/
  3. ↑ https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/midler-bette
  4. ↑ a b c d Harenberg Personal Lexicon. Harenberg Verlag, 2000, p. 678.
  5. ↑ boxofficemojo.com
  6. ↑ playbill.com
  7. ↑ tagesspiegel.de
  8. ↑ playbill.com
  9. ↑ imdb.com
  10. ^ Sophie von Haselberg. Retrieved January 21, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Chart sources: Singles Albums DE UK US
  12. ↑ the official website: Academy Awards ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Entry for 1979 and 1991); Golden Globe Awards ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Entries for 1980, 1981, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1994 and 2001); Emmy Awards ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Entries for 1978, 1992, 1994, 1997 and 1998); Tony Awards ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Entry on 1974); Grammy Awards (entries for 1973, 1980, 1989, 1990, 2003, and 2006); BAFTA Awards (entry from 1980). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / awardsdatabase.oscars.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goldenglobes.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cdn.emmys.tv @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tonyawards.com

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personal data
SURNAME Midler, Bette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The Divine Miss M
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer, actress, comedian and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Honolulu, Hawaii