Liza Minnelli

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Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actress and singer who became world famous in 1972 for her impersonation of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret . She is the daughter of actress Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli .

In the 1960s she began working as an actress at musical theater, mainly in New York City , and made a name for herself as a versatile interpreter of songs from the Great American Songbook , primarily through nightclub engagements . In particular, songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb formed the basis for some of their concert programs in the following decades. Minnelli starred in several stage musicals by this duo, including Flora the Red Menace (1965) and The Act (1977/78).

After receiving critical acclaim for her role in the literary film adaptation of Pookie (1969) and her award-winning appearance in Cabaret , Minnelli did not establish herself as a leading film star. Only the comedy Arthur - No Child of Sadness (1981) was still successful. As a singer, she has appeared in television shows such as Liza with a 'Z' (1972) and has toured internationally. Out of their concerts, the guest appearances in 1979 and 1987 at Carnegie Hall and in 1991 and 1992 at Radio City Music Hall stand out.

Musically, Minnelli worked with her mother Judy Garland , Charles Aznavour , Frank Sinatra , Sammy Davis Jr. , Billy Stritch and the Pet Shop Boys , among others . With Oscar , Emmy , Grammy , Tony and the Golden Globe , she won the five major awards in the American film, television, music, theater and newspaper industries. Biographers such as Scott Schechter (2004), Michael Freedland (1990) and Wendy Leigh (1995) count Minnelli among the most popular living entertainers.

life and work

Family and personal life

Liza May Minnelli is the daughter of the film actress and singer Judy Garland (1922-1969) and the director Vincente Minnelli (1903-1986). She was born on March 12, 1946 in the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles and was named after the Gershwin song Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) and after her paternal grandmother, who was called May. Her godparents were the artist couple Kay Thompson and William Spier. She had a close relationship with Thompson until her death in 1998 and was named as the inspiration for Thompson's children's book series Eloise . After her parents divorced in 1951, Liza grew up with Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland every six months. She described her mother as strict and ambitious, whereas she “lived out her dreams” with her father: “I got my drive from my mother and my dreams from my father.” In 1952 Judy Garland married the producer Sidney Luft , with whom she had two children named Lorna (* 1952) and Joseph ("Joey") Luft (* 1955). Lorna Luft also became an actress and singer, but never internationally famous like her half-sister Liza or her mother Judy. Liza's half-sister Christiane Nina ("Tina Nina") Minnelli, born in 1955, comes from the second marriage of her father Vincente to Georgette Magnani.

1967 Liza Minnelli married the Australian songwriter and entertainer Peter Allen (1944-1992), whom she in 1964 as a protégé had met her mother. The couple separated in 1970 and divorced in 1972. Allen, who died in 1992 as a result of AIDS , later described the relationship as tense from the outset, but remained on friendly terms with Minnelli. In 1972/73 Minnelli was engaged to Desi Arnaz junior , but at the same time was also in a relationship with Peter Sellers . Arnaz's mother Lucille Ball disapproved of Minnelli's association with her son. From 1974 to 1979 she was married to the director and producer Jack Haley junior (1933-2001), the son of the actor Jack Haley , who had starred in 1939 on the side of Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz . After mutual affairs, the marriage was divorced. Between 1976 and 1978 Minnelli was in a relationship with Martin Scorsese and Mikhail Baryshnikov .

In the late 1970s, Minnelli was a regular at Studio 54 . It was then that she met the sculptor Mark Gero (* 1952) and made him her personal manager . Married since 1979, the couple temporarily separated in the mid-1980s and divorced in 1992. Because of her alcohol and pill addiction, Minnelli was admitted to the Betty Ford Center in 1984 and to the Hazelden Clinic in Minnesota for rehab in 1985 , which was accompanied by public sympathy. Minnelli noted in an interview in 2002 that she had had five miscarriages. In 1994 she was given an artificial hip joint. In 1997 she had to undergo vocal cord surgery. She was hospitalized in October 2000 as a result of life-threatening encephalitis. For the next few months she was partially dependent on a wheelchair and suffered from speech disorders. In several operations, a second artificial hip joint and an artificial knee joint were also inserted; a continuation of her career initially appeared uncertain. As part of her lengthy recovery, she took dance and singing lessons to help overcome the effects of her illness.

In March 2002, Minnelli married producer and concert promoter David Gest (1953-2016) with Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson as best man. The wedding was televised. Although the two went their separate ways after a year, the divorce was not consummated until 2006 after lengthy legal disputes. Minnelli again confessed to being an alcoholic in 2009. In 2004 and 2015 she went into withdrawal again.

In 2014, Minnelli was an audience guest at the 86th Academy Awards, along with Lorna and Joey Luft . The occasion was the 75th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz . In 2015, Minnelli moved her long-term residence from New York to Los Angeles. In 2017, she hosted two live chats with her fans on the social network Facebook and performed at the opening concert of the Pasadena Symphony and POPS Festival in California, which was given in her honor.

Career

1946–1960: childhood and youth

In 1949 Liza Minnelli had her first small screen appearance at the side of her mother and Van Johnson's in the closing sequence of the musical film Back then Summer . In 1952 she appeared in the documentary short film Screen Snapshots 5854: Young Hollywood about children of well-known Hollywood stars. She also spent time filming her father's films, for example on the set of An American in Paris , where she and Gene Kelly's daughter threw confetti at a ballet scene. According to her own memory, she found this filming "boring", but was enthusiastic about the dance scenes in the film. She was supposed to play a small role in Vincente Minnelli's family comedy Villa with 100 HP (1954), but the scenes with her were not used in the final film version.

Inspired by her father's films and especially Fred Astaire's appearance in the curtain! (1953), Liza Minnelli's first serious artistic interest was dance, and later figure skating. As a child she took dance lessons from MGM choreographer Nico Charisse and performed for the first time with Judy Garland in New York's Palace Theater as a dancer in the song Swanee in 1956 . In November 1956, she hosted a TV show on The Wizard of Oz , Garland's 1939 hit film, as part of the Ford Star Jubilee series with actor Bert Lahr. In April 1959, she appeared in Gene Kelly's TV special The Gene Kelly Show , with dance him to the song For Me and My Gal . When she saw the Broadway musicals Gypsy (with Ethel Merman ) and Bye Bye Birdie (with Dick Van Dyke and Chita Rivera ) in 1959 and 1960 , her interest in the theater was piqued and she “had to” become an actress, according to her own words. Due to many changes of residence, Minnelli attended around 20 different schools and never graduated from high school .

1961–1964: Training in New York, first music and theater work

In 1961 Liza Minnelli was accepted into New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and auditioned unsuccessfully at several theaters in the spring. She was accompanied by her classmate Marvin Hamlisch , who was one of her friends and musical work partners for many years. She gained her first experience in three summer theater productions at the Cape Cod Melody Theater in Hyannis , where she was on vacation with her family. In the fall of 1961, she moved to Scarsdale High School north of New York City , where she played the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank in December . The Scarsdale Inquirer called their performance "spirited". A local sponsor organized a European tour for the school troupe in July and August 1962 with stops in Rome , Athens , Jerusalem and Amsterdam . In 1962, at the request of her parents, she was briefly enrolled at the Paris Sorbonne , but did not feel that she was accepted there. At the end of 1962 she moved to a small apartment in Manhattan and began training in acting, dance and singing at the Herbert Berghof Studio, where she was tutored, for example, by Uta Hagen . In March 1963, she passed a casting for an off-Broadway adaptation of the musical Best Foot Forward , in which she played the supporting role of the male-hungry college student Ethel Hoffinger. Minnelli received rave reviews for her performance.

At the age of 17 she attended a concert by the French chansonnier Charles Aznavour , one of her later musical patrons. Minnelli had already made her first music recordings in November or December 1961 with the help of Marvin Hamlisch and recorded the songs The Travelin 'Life , At the Roxy Music Hall and It's Just a Matter of Time on a demo tape as a Christmas present for her mother. In February 1963 she recorded You Are for Loving and What Do You Think I Am? (both from Best Foot Forward ) as their first single for Cadence Records . The success of the Best Foot Forward show cast album resulted in a recording deal with Capitol Records in May 1963 , where she released three solo LPs and several singles over the next three years. In contrast to the albums, which contained musical songs and jazz standards by stage composers such as Hammerstein , Sondheim , Rodgers , Hart , Gershwin, Arlen and Porter , the singles were based on current pop music : As biographer Scott Schechter points out, Minnelli took serious ballads and comic songs that were sometimes slightly European or Latin American, very contemporary and appropriate to the interpreter's age. In November and December 1963 she appeared on the popular television program The Judy Garland Show , where she sang several duets with her mother and her first popular song You Are for Loving .

In June 1964 Minnelli recorded her first solo album Liza! Liza! on, for whose arrangements Peter Matz was responsible and which appeared on the market in September. Marvin Hamlisch helped with the selection of songs and Minnelli played for the first time the song Maybe This Time by the duo Fred Ebb and John Kander , which was integrated into the musical film Cabaret in 1971 , but was not part of the stage version. Matz had already worked on Barbra Streisand's first albums and Scott Schechter explains that the producers of Capitol wanted to shape Minnelli into a second Streisand by choosing standards. In fact, the music critic William Ruhlmann referred to her as "Barbra Streisand's little sister". Ballads alternated with up tempo - show tunes (musical songs), in which Minnelli demonstrated her talent for acting under the various musical moods. Liza! Liza! was represented in the Billboard 200 album charts at number 116 for eight weeks and was praised by critics as a “promising debut” (Cashbox) , “impressive”, “beguiling” and “wonderfully varied” (Record World) . In November 1964 Minnelli gave two joint concerts with Judy Garland at the London Palladium . According to Minnelli's memories, it was during these performances that both of them should have consciously perceived each other as artists for the first time. Apart from a few spontaneous appearances between 1956 and 1967, the shows at the Palladium were Minnelli's only scheduled engagement with her mother.

1965–1970: Breakthrough on Broadway and as a singer; first film success with Pookie

In May 1965, Minnelli played the role of the young fashion illustrator Flora Meszaros, who falls in love with a communist during the Great Depression, in the Broadway musical Flora the Red Menace , directed by George Abbott . The production laid the foundation for their decades-long collaboration with the musical duo Kander / Ebb, which also made its Broadway debut here and in the future wrote, produced or staged several songs, television and stage programs for Minnelli. Minnelli regards Fred Ebb as her favorite songwriter, as he has given her individual expressiveness. For her performance in Flora the Red Menace , 19-year-old Minnelli was awarded a Tony Award as the youngest musical actress to date . The reviews were almost unanimously good for them, the musical in general received less positive reviews.

In September 1965, Liza Minnelli first appeared as a nightclub singer in the Blue Room of the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC . Such programs in clubs, hotels and casinos became their main focus over the next few years. She has made guest appearances in prestigious establishments in Las Vegas , Miami, Los Angeles, New York City, and London and felt most connected to this form of entertainment. According to her own statement, her early nightclub appearances shaped her artistic career. Despite several film, theater and music projects, Minnelli has gained most of her experience as a live entertainer. Her first appearance in Washington, DC was followed by a tour of the United States, Canada , London and Paris in the fall of 1965 . The repertoire included several songs by Kander and Ebb as well as other musical and pop songs. Minnelli followed this program until 1966 and retained parts of the song material until the early 1970s. The Washington Daily News concluded that "a star was born"; Minnelli has been described as a "lively, spirited young lady, blessed with a big voice and a versatile personality," as an "extremely talented and dynamic star," and as an "exciting experience," and the night of her nightclub debut was "one of the most exciting in the history of the Shoreham Blue Room ”.

In 1968 Minnelli made the film Pookie based on the novel The Sterile Cuckoo by John Nichols. Directed by Alan J. Pakula , she played "Pookie" Mary Ann Adams, who got their first relationship when she entered college. The emotionally disturbed Pookie falls in love with a fellow student, which creates a difficult relationship. Unpopular and extroverted, Pookie wants to distance himself from others, while her shy friend doesn't want to lose touch with the group despite his phase of self-discovery. Minnelli was nominated for an Oscar and received excellent reviews. The Life Magazine praised her "funny", "moving" and "perfectly played performance" and the Hollywood Reporter said, Minnelli's "fragile, funny love affair among freshmen [is] a class of its own [and] Minnelli's one-woman show." Minnelli gave this film a cynical, rebellious image that clearly stood out from her mother, who had always embodied the role of Ingenue . From June 1969 Minnelli stood in front of the camera for Otto Preminger's film Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, based on the novel by Marjorie Kellogg. As Junie Moon, she played one of three social outsiders who struggle through life; Junie's face is disfigured by an acid attack . The shooting turned out to be difficult for Minnelli because she couldn't get used to Preminger's directorial style, which was clearly different from Pakula's reserved, sensitive way of working. Although the film was not a success, critics honored the performance of Minnelli, who played here with her godmother Kay Thompson. Preminger's directorial work was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival .

1971-1973: Cabaret ; Liza with a 'Z'

According to Scott Schechter, Minnelli auditioned 20 times in 1966 for the role of variety singer Sally Bowles in the Broadway musical Cabaret , based on John van Druten's play I Am a Camera, based on autobiographical novels by Christopher Isherwood . But it had been rejected again and again because the producers wanted a British actress. However, Minnelli took the title song of the same name permanently in her repertoire and sang it at nightclub appearances, in television shows and in concerts. After the producers of the film Cabaret saw Minnelli's concert at the Olympia in Paris in December 1969, they decided to cast Minnelli in the lead role. Bob Fosse took care of the choreography and direction .

Since then, Minnelli has been associated with this role, to which she also feels personally connected. To prepare for roles, she studied photographs by the silent film actresses Louise Glaum and Louise Brooks . Cabaret was shot in Munich from February to July 1971 with Michael York , Marisa Berenson , Helmut Griem , Fritz Wepper and Joel Gray . Gray took on the role of emcee again after his stage performance on Broadway. The action takes place on the eve of the Nazi takeover in Berlin of 1931. An English writer (York) moves to the board , which also Sally Bowles lives that the number cabaret Kit Kat Club occurs and dreams of an acting career. A doomed three-way relationship develops with a wealthy German (Griem). In contrast to the stage version, the role of the boarding house operator Miss Schneider was pushed into the background in favor of the love story of the characters played by York and Minnelli. The songs for the film Mein Herr , Money, Money (duet with Joel Gray), Maybe This Time and Cabaret , written by Fred Ebb and John Kander , became Minnelli's signature melodies and are still part of her standard repertoire today . For her acting performance in the strip, which received a total of eight Academy Awards, Minnelli won the Oscar for Best Actress and other international film awards. The magazine Variety concluded that the film version of the musical was "very unusual: educated, coarse, sophisticated, sensual, cynical, heartwarming" and "[voice] worryingly thoughtful". The Daily News said Minnelli defined the word "star". Film critic Angela Errigo describes Cabaret as “the only great musical of the 1970s” in which Fosse “staged the cold splendor of the sinful, soulless Berlin of the 1930s”, with “cheeky, effective musical numbers and hard cuts between Cabaret and Outside world ". The film belongs to Liza Minnelli, "who endows the sad, wide-eyed Sally Bowles with a feverish vitality and feigned depravity" and gives the film "human warmth and fragility".

Inspired by the hit movie, Fosse and Minnelli produced the television special Liza with a 'Z' in May 1972 . A Concert for Television for NBC as a concert film in front of a New York audience, again mainly with music by Kander and Ebb. The title of the show was based on the song Liza with a 'Z' by Kander and Ebb, in which Minnelli explains the correct pronunciation of her name: [ lʌɪza ] with a voiced "S". Minnelli, Fosse and Ebb were Emmy Awards and received rave reviews. Cabaret and Liza with a 'Z' made Minnelli a media sensation: She was the first person to appear on the covers of Newsweek and Time in the same week . The soundtracks for Cabaret and Liza with a 'Z' both reached the Top 30 on the Billboard Albums Chart and went gold .

1974–1986: Further film projects after Cabaret ; Return to the theater; Concert tours

Wendy Leigh claims Minnelli turned down over 400 scripts after Cabaret . In fact, there have been a number of unrealized film projects, including rematches of The Lady of the Camellias (1936) and How to Get a Millionaire? (1953) and the adaptation of the novel The Great Gatsby , in which Mia Farrow finally took over the female lead in 1974 . In 1972, film fan magazine Photoplay rumored that Vincente Minnelli was planning a film adaptation of Judy Garland's life story with Liza Minnelli in the role of her mother: however, father and daughter had repeatedly emphasized that they would never take on such a project. Her next three films after Cabaret could not bring in their high production costs and were largely rejected by the critics. In Stanley Donen's Adventurers on the Lucky Lady (1975) she played a cheap cabaret singer who, at the time of Prohibition , had to assert herself against another smuggler gang together with an alcohol smuggler ( Gene Hackman ) and a crook ( Burt Reynolds ). Directed by Vincente Minnelli, she was seen in Nina - Just a Question of Time (1976) as a maid who relives the memories of an old countess ( Ingrid Bergman ). At the side of Robert De Niro , Minnelli played in Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977) a big band singer who later became a big star. As Scott Schechter notes, those three flops in a row brought Minnelli's career as a movie star to a standstill. Only the title song Theme from New York, New York , interpreted in New York, New York by Minnelli, achieved great fame and became a world hit and the unofficial anthem of the city of New York thanks to Frank Sinatra's new recording in September 1979 ; on a few occasions Minnelli and Sinatra later sang the song together. It was only with the romantic comedy Arthur - No Child of Sadness that she turned a film together with Dudley Moore and John Gielgud , which both won over the critics and brought in a high profit beyond its costs. Arthur had the fourth highest box office grossing of all films in 1981 and was viewed by the media as a cinematic comeback for Minnelli. Her later film projects Rent-a-Cop (1987), Arthur 2 - On the Rocks (1988) and Stepping Out (1991), however, left little impression on the audience and were either ignored or mostly badly rated by critics. It was similar with most of the television films that Minnelli made in the 1980s and 1990s.

After Minnelli had already returned to Broadway in January 1974 with an award-winning concert guest appearance, she took on the role of Roxie Hart in the world premiere of the musical Chicago in August and September 1975 for the sick Gwen Verdon . Minnelli said she had never had a better time. Chicago was her first Broadway cast since Flora the Red Menace in 1965. She didn't want her name on the billboard, so only one person announced that Minnelli would play Roxie "in today's show". Critics were not invited either, but were interested nonetheless and praised her for her stage presence, even though, according to colleagues, she “did not play perfectly”.

Minnelli continued her collaboration with Martin Scorsese in 1977 in the new Broadway musical The Act . George Furth tailor-made her the role of 1960s film musical star Michelle Craig, who is planning his comeback as a nightclub singer in Las Vegas. As Scott Schechter explains, The Act is the only one of Minnelli's musicals that has never seen a revival with another line-up because it was so fixated on them. Apart from Minnelli's performance, which was rewarded with a Tony Award, other aspects of the production and staging received little positive reviews. For example, Scorsese's inexperience at the theater unnecessarily increased the cost of costumes and sets and the production was too tailored to the main actress. However, the musical was well received by the public and was performed a total of 233 times in front of a sold-out house by July 1, 1978. As Der Spiegel judged, the people apparently didn't want to see the musical, but rather Minnelli, who sings almost all the songs alone and without The Act "collapses like a balloon." She, who once proved herself to be a “subtle character actress” in Pookie , is “at the crossroads between the art of performing and show slamming”: the “superstar singing and dancing to the point of total exhaustion” becomes a “sparse libretto” thanks to the “sparse libretto”. too tight corset ”forced. Other critics said The Act was more of a concert than a theater production, but praised Minnelli, who was called "fantastic" by New York Times Radio , for example .

Liza Minnelli visits Eva Perón's mausoleum in Recoleta , August 1993. In the summer of 1982 she was in discussion for the leading role in the film adaptation of the musical Evita .

An extensive concert tour of North America and Europe between September 1978 and November 1979 brought Minnelli excellent reviews. As part of the tour, she had a guest appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall with eleven shows in September 1979 - the longest engagement of an artist in this house to date. Biographer Schechter sees the resulting LP Liza Minnelli Live at Carnegie Hall as a vocal highlight in Minnelli's career. The opinions on her performances in New York were enthusiastic. Variety stated: "Minnelli is a lively, dynamic, strong entertainer, capable of moving audiences to new heights of recognition [...]" and counted her among the "best artists of our time". One of her last tour concerts was recorded in New Orleans as an HBO special, which Minnelli again gave positive reviews. A CBS special in February 1980 starring Goldie Hawn ( Goldie and Liza Together ) received good reviews but didn't get high ratings. Baryshnikov on Broadway , on the other hand, proved to be very successful , a special by the Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov , in which Minnelli played a “travel guide” through the musical history of Broadway, which was awarded four Emmys .

For her lead role in the Broadway musical The Rink (again written by Fred Ebb and John Kander) , which premiered on February 9, 1984 and had over 200 performances by August, Minnelli received mixed to good reviews, as did the production itself. Together with her Chicago colleague Chita Rivera, she played an unequal mother-daughter duo: Minnelli was seen as a rebellious ex- hippie who argues with his mother over the sale of a run-down roller skating rink. Minnelli left production in July because of her rehab at the Betty Ford Center and was replaced by Stockard Channing . The public interest then subsided; a few weeks later production was stopped. After her withdrawal cures, Minnelli made a new concert tour through the United States from June to November 1985, which Scott Schechter describes as her first real comeback. That summer, she suspended the tour in favor of filming the NBC drama A Short Life , which recreated the true story of the mother of a child suffering from muscular dystrophy . Minnelli's acting was honored with a Golden Globe and praised by the press.

1987–2001: Comeback and new music projects

Liza Minnelli on Sunset Boulevard (1988)

An artistic highlight in Minnelli's career is her three-week guest performance at New York's Carnegie Hall in May and June 1987, which was considered a major comeback by the international media. She broke her own 1979 record for the longest concert series in the history of the house with 17 sold out shows and got very good reviews. Variety spoke of a "triumphant return" and Vanity Fair said Minnelli was "back on top". The program included several of her well-known musicals from Ebb and Kander, as well as other stage songs and jazz standards; Minnelli was accompanied by a 45-piece orchestra. The album Liza Minnelli: At Carnegie Hall reached number 156 on the charts and is listed by Scott Schechter as her best audio release. This was followed by a tour of the United States and Europe until December 1987.

Minnelli attracted attention in 1987/88 as the spokeswoman for Estée Lauder 's men's perfume Metropolis . In this role she appeared in stores and shot a TV commercial for which she re-recorded the Kander / Ebb song City Lights (from The Act ). From September 1988, she went on The Ultimate Event tour through the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. , which also resulted in television specials in some countries. The program contained numerous jazz standards; Davis opened the concert, followed by Minnelli, then Sinatra and finally all three of them took turns singing a medley of their own hits together and solo. Sinatra and Minnelli continued the tour after Davis' illness-related exit in March 1990 through July. During the London Ultimate Event engagements in the spring of 1989, Minnelli recorded the electronic pop album Results for EMI , one of her most unusual recordings according to Schechter. She wished for resounding musical success and, through her manager at the time, Gene Simmons, contacted the Pet Shop Boys , who wrote and produced the work. The reviews of the album varied. The lead single Losing My Mind was a top 10 hit in the UK and hit other European charts. Minnelli was awarded the 1989 Grammy Legend Award for her "ongoing special influence on the music world ."

Minnelli celebrated one of her greatest successes with her concert series in April and May 1991 at Radio City Music Hall, which was followed by a new tour through the United States and Europe. It was the most commercially successful concert series in the Music Hall for 59 years and made Minnelli the best-paid stage artist of the year, ahead of the Rolling Stones . She played the first half of the program solo with well-known standards, the second act was accompanied by singers and dancers from Broadway. The Newsday called the show a "triumph". Minnelli returned to the house in January and February 1992; This second engagement resulted in a live album (Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall) , Minnelli's best-selling audio release, and in December a concert recording was broadcast as a television special under the same title. In March 1996 a new studio album, Gently , was released , according to Schechter one of their best known and most high-profile albums, "smoky", "jazzy" and lavishly orchestrated . It peaked at number 156 in the charts and was nominated for a Grammy. Between 1991 and 1996 Minnelli was on tour almost continuously.

For Julie Andrews , who had suffered from the vocal cords , Minnelli took on the title role in the Broadway musical Victor / Victoria in January 1997 . Her performance received mixed media reviews, but made Victor / Victoria the most commercially successful production of the month. After Victor / Victoria , Minnelli (similar to Andrews) had to undergo an operation on the vocal cords after her second cast had to fill in for the last five evenings announced with Minnelli. As a result of this operation, Minnelli only had a few concerts in 1997 and 1998 and invested her time in rebuilding her voice, supported by trainers and doctors. In December 1999 she performed her show Minnelli on Minnelli , a tribute to her father's film musicals, at the Palace Theater on Broadway. She had to break off a subsequent concert tour shortly after Easter 2000 for health reasons; Minnelli's original intention had been a three-year world tour with this program. She then took her first official break since her last rehab in 1985 and spent a few months recovering in Florida. After a breakdown and diagnosis of encephalitis in October 2000, Minnelli made few public appearances.

Since 2002: Liza's Back ; Arrested development ; Liza's at The Palace ....

In January 2002 a new concert program was announced under the title Liza's Back with a corresponding tour, which was supposed to begin in London's Royal Albert Hall in April, but was not realized. In June Minnelli gave a week-long concert guest appearance in front of a sold out house at New York's Beacon Theater . The producer was Minnelli's fourth husband at the time, David Gest. In October 2002 she released a live album of the same name based on recordings from the Beacon Theater. Biographer Schechter describes Minnelli as "the world's most discussed and described celebrity" in spring 2002. The reviews of her concert appearances and her album were enthusiastic. Since then she has toured regularly in America and Europe; In 2006, 2008 and 2009 Minnelli could also be seen at several concerts in Germany. Since the death of their longtime drummer and conductor Bill LaVorgna (1933–2007), the drummer Michael Berkowitz has led the orchestra in its performances.

After their wedding had already been broadcast on television and was quoted in the media, Minnelli and Gest planned a joint reality show (Liza and David) for the VH-1 channel based on the model of the documentary soap The Osbournes . After several days of shooting, the broadcaster terminated the project due to "lack of cooperation". From 2003 to 2005, Minnelli played Lucille Austero in ten episodes of the sitcom Arrested Development on the FOX station , a recurring guest role that brought her excellent press and which she played again on the occasion of the resumption on the video-on-demand provider Netflix in 2013.

With Liza's at The Palace .... at the Palace Theater in New York, Minnelli returned from December 3, 2008 to January 4, 2009 with a concert program on Broadway. Parts of the show, initially only scheduled for two weeks, were dedicated to her godmother Kay Thompson, who died in 1998. In early February 2009, the accompanying show cast album was released, for which Minnelli received a Grammy nomination. The production won a Tony Award in June 2009. In the summer and autumn of 2009 Minnelli presented her new program at five concerts in Germany as well as in Amsterdam, Paris and Australia, for which she received mostly favorable reviews from the press. On September 21, 2010, Minnelli released her studio album Confessions on Decca Records , on which she was mainly accompanied by her pianist Billy Stritch, sometimes also by a rhythm section, and interpreted 14 standards of the Great American Songbook in jazz ballad style, including songs by composers Burton Lane , Frank Loesser , Arthur Schwartz and Ray Noble . In October 2011 Minnelli performed at the music festival AVO Session in Basel ; the concert was recorded for a television broadcast.

In the 2010s Minnelli reduced her workload and her public presence and concentrated on smaller, sometimes retrospective stage programs, for example in 2012 with Alan Cumming and in 2018 with Michael Feinstein , who has become her personal and musical companion. In the spring and summer of 2018, she attracted attention when she auctioned off numerous valuables from her family property.

Effect and reception

Premiere of Elizabethtown at Toronto International Film Festival (2005)
Liza Minnelli as a juror in a dog show (2006)

outer appearance

Since Cabaret , Minnelli's dark hair, their equally dark, large eyes and their artificial eyelashes have been their trademarks. This 1930s style, based on the character “Sally Bowles”, was significantly influenced by director Bob Fosse, fellow actor Gwen Verdon (Fosse's wife) and father Vincente Minnelli. Their fashionable appearance was particularly influenced in the 1970s by Roy Halston Frowick , who also designed for Jacqueline Kennedy , Bianca Jagger , Anjelica Huston , Lauren Bacall and Elizabeth Taylor; Bob Mackie is also mentioned as an important designer. Halston and Mackie designed numerous sequin costumes for Minnelli's public appearances and stage shows. Before Cabaret , Minnelli wore her hair long until the early 1960s, then cut it halfway and cut it short in 1966. Since then she has varied this style again and again; In the mid-1980s she wore blond for a short time. Minnelli's "goblin hairstyle", her intense, lush eyelashes and eyebrows and her sequin ensembles have come together to create a typical "Liza look" , according to Schechter . Minnelli designed her own Liza Collection for the TV station HSN , which appeared on the market in June 2010.

Stage personality

Fred Ebb constructed the show business identity of a future legend for Minnelli who is enveloped by the reputation of her parents and at the same time wants to escape it. This identity developed into a fixed, self-referential cliché and anachronism through Cabaret and Liza with a 'Z' . With the help of the songs by Kander and Ebb, Minnelli stylized herself as a survivor. Songs like Theme from New York, New York , Cabaret or Maybe This Time are exaggerated survival hymns that drive the female chest voice increasingly upward and force the singer to intensify vocal corporeality. The singing necessary to interpret such songs is an act of self-determination. By literally overcoming the physical challenge of these numbers, the artist expresses her will to survive. Minnelli ultimately built her entire career on this type of performance.

According to musicologist James Leve, it was through Minnelli that Ebb lived out his deepest desires and his own fantasy of fame. This symbiosis, which Leve compares with the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, met the insatiable need for applause on both sides. Ebb shaped the legend of Minnelli as a unique confluence of talent and biography, perseverance and collapse. His texts, stage and television programs created a glamorous stage personality whose evocative tone is omnipresent during conversation with the audience.

Choice of roles in the film

Minnelli grew up among the film people of the Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and, as a small child, had her first screen appearance for a few seconds in an MGM film (without text and without payment). But she did not develop into a child actress. Even with her first film roles when she was over 20, she avoided the possible role cliché in the sense of "Dorothy's daughter". ("Dorothy" is the main character played by the teenage Judy Garland in 1939 in the classic film The Wizard of Oz .) So she turned down several offers from the Disney film studio for cheerful musicals and wanted to prove her dramatic skills outside of the musical field early on. Originally, as a clumsy girl, she embodied an antithesis to conventional star glamor. Her first three films A Successful Dud , Pookie and Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon showed her in the roles of lovable outsiders, who represented the youth of the 1960s and the generation conflict and also brought up the theme of the counterculture . The public perceived this young Liza Minnelli as a quirky girl who opened up in elegant restaurants wearing baggy sweatshirts and jeans.

At the time, Minnelli was considered a teenage rebel. The appearance of such a rebel in the film Cabaret , which dealt with subjects such as bisexuality and decadence, helped her to become an icon in the early years of the gay movement. Cabaret represented a turning point. Minnelli transformed into a vamp as Sally Bowles on screen , creating a stark contrast to the girl next door, who had always played her mother. She then played the lead roles in three entertainment films in the 1970s that resembled only fuzzy distortions of Sally Bowles. These productions were artistically and / or commercially unsuccessful and ended Minnelli's career as a notable film actress. As Leigh points out, Minnelli was never able to buy film projects for herself as a star or to be her own director.

Audience, supporters and companions

With her appearances in several film and stage musicals, Minnelli caught the attention of genre lovers. In the wake of Cabaret , Minnelli's style as Sally Bowles has been copied by numerous travesty artists. Similar to her mother, Minnelli enjoys admiration in the gay scene for her film roles, for her well-known friendships with bisexual and homosexual artists such as Peter Allen, Andy Warhol and Roy Halston Frowick, but also for her social commitment in matters of AIDS. For 20 years she supported the organization IAHP (The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential) on the board and was also committed to the AmfAR (The American Foundation for AIDS Research) . In November 1993 Minnelli released the single The Day After That , a reinterpretation from the Kander / Ebb musical Kiss the Spider Woman , which she recorded in English, Spanish and French on the occasion of World AIDS Day . Part of the proceeds from the single and music video went to amfAR.

The official Limelight on Liza fan club existed from December 1964 to spring 1997 . He was initially led by Nancy Barr as club president until 1976, then by Suzan Meyer. Since the club was closed, the internet has become the biggest gathering point for fans. In May 1998 the e-mail group love_liza was founded, the largest chat about Minnelli since then . TheLizaMinnelliFanClub was created in February 2003 and also offers detailed overviews and updates on Minnelli's work. Minnelli's longtime press supporters include journalists Clive Barnes, Robert Osborne and Liz Smith.

In addition to Peter Matz, Aznavour, Ebb and Kander, musical accompanists were Marvin Hamlisch, who supported the selection of songs for her first solo appearances in the 1960s; In the late 1960s Peter Allen, who helped her develop her voice, negotiate with agencies and design her stage programs; around 1970 the pop / rock musician Rex Kramer with his music group Bojangles; from 1976 Bill LaVorgna, drummer and conductor of her band; since the early 1990s pianist Billy Stritch , who has also co-produced several of her albums; Late 2000s Johnny Rodgers; and since the mid-2010s Michael Feinstein. When Martha Graham Minnelli took dance lessons; For decades the jazz dancer Eugene Louis "Luigi" Faccuito acted as her trainer until his death in 2015. Angela Bacari designed her singing lessons. Designer Joe Eula created his first “ Liza logo” in 1970 and has since done illustrations for most of Minnelli's concert programs and album covers.

Image and cultural significance

According to biographer Scott Schechter, Minnelli was " born famous " and, according to Wendy Leigh, "could never live without show business". Schechter cites Minnelli's origins as the reason the media paid more attention to her private life, such as health problems, than to her work. Her "life in the gossip columns and tabloids" had "sadly and unfairly overshadowed [her work] in the eyes of Hollywood Reporter- columnist Robert Osborne". Fred Astaire expressed himself in the film That's Never Again - That's Entertainment 1974: "If Hollywood were a monarchy, Liza would be our Crown Princess." In the 1970s, the media thought and created Minnelli of the role of heiress to a supposed Hollywood dynasty thus a tension between Minnelli's pride in her legacy on the one hand and her desire to forge a different, individual identity on the other. Minnelli's endeavor to claim such an identity separate from her family legacy interwoven with her distance from traditional star glamor. According to Leigh, “the Hollywood princess seems to be far more loved by Broadway than by the dream factory of her hometown. Liza has never absolutely loved the camera, and she has not been able to establish herself as a film star once and for all. "

Minnelli's career has been shaped by her work as a concert singer and live entertainer, less by film and music productions. Since 1965, Minnelli has given regular concerts around the world almost every year. Minnelli is considered to be the interpreter of the Great American Songbook, but with several recordings she repeatedly approached contemporary pop music. In the 1960s and 1970s she re-recorded many hits by well-known singer-songwriters and in 1989 presented Results, a modern pop album. The albums Gently (1996) and Confessions (2010), on the other hand, show Minnelli as a singer of old jazz ballads. As Leigh complains, Minnelli is, according to critics, "too tied to the past" and "to the semi-autobiographical songs by Kander and Ebb"; "Not musically modern enough [...] to land in the charts". In France it was nicknamed "la petite Piaf américaine" based on Édith Piaf .

Minnelli doesn't consider herself a good singer, but rather an "actress in music" who wants to portray her songs. She says she was encouraged in this regard by her personal friend and former mentor, Charles Aznavour, who taught her various nuances in phrasing and wrote several chansons over the years, including There Is a Time (1966) and Sailor Boys (1988 ). Minnelli's performance as a live artist is characterized not only by her energetic demeanor, but also by the will to move her audience, convey feelings to them and thereby enter into a dialogue, which she personally said: “This is the best kind of tennis that I know "summarized. Meryl Streep was impressed by this emotional bond with the audience when she saw Minnelli in the musical The Act , and Freddie Mercury called Minnelli a stylistic inspiration. Even Madonna , Lady Gaga and Kylie Minogue have been inspired by Minnelli musical or for their stage outfits.

Further information

Filmography

See detailed listing of her film and television work in

Theatrography

See detailed listing of her theater performances in

Discography

See a detailed listing of your music recordings with year of first publication and chart positions in

Awards

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

Academy Awards

  • 1969 Best Actress : Pookie - nominated
  • 1972 Best Actress: Cabaret - Won

British Academy Film Awards

  • 1970 Most promising young talent in a film lead role: Pookie - nominated
  • 1972 Best Actress : Cabaret - Won

David di Donatello

  • 1970 Best Foreign Actress: Pookie - Won
  • 1973 Best Foreign Actress: Cabaret - Won
  • 2002 Special David for her complete works - won

Drama Desk Awards

  • 1983/84 season Outstanding leading actress in a musical: The Rink - nominated
  • 2008/09 season Drama Desk Special Award "as a popular American music theater icon, for her enduring career of enduring excellence and her great performance in Liza's at The Palace ... " - won

Emmy Awards

  • 1973 Outstanding single show - variety and popular music: Liza with a 'Z'. A Concert for Television - won with Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb
  • 1973 Outstanding Achievement of a Supporting Actress in Music or Variety: A Royal Gala Variety Performance in the Presence of Her Majesty The Queen - nominated
  • 1980 Outstanding variety or music show: Goldie and Liza Together - nominated, together with Goldie Hawn , Fred Ebb , Dan Mischer and George Schlatter
  • 1987 Outstanding informational special: Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente - nominated, together with Jack Haley junior, David Niven junior and David Schickel
  • 1993 Outstanding individual performance in a variety show or music program: Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall - nominated

Gold Derby Awards

  • 2005 Comedy Guest Actress : Arrested Development - nominated
  • 2013 Comedy Guest Actress : Arrested Development - nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Raspberry Awards

Grammy Awards

Hi-Fi / Stereo Review Magazine

  • 1966 Best album of the year: There Is a Time - won
  • 1968 Best Album of the Year: Liza Minnelli - won

Online Film & Television Association

  • 2004 Best guest actress in a comedy series: Arrested Development - won
  • 2013 Best guest actress in a comedy series: Arrested Development - nominated

Tony Awards

  • 1965 Best Actress in a Musical : Flora the Red Menace - won
  • 1974 Special Tony Award "for her best personal achievement" - won
  • 1978 Best Actress in a Musical: The Act - won
  • 1984 Best Actress in a Musical: The Rink - nominated

Further awards

  • 1962-63 season Theater World Awards Promising Personality Award : Best Foot Forward
  • 1969 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress : Pookie
  • 1970 Actor Award of the Mar del Plata Film Festival : Pookie
  • 1972 American Guild of Variety Artists Award for Entertainer of the Year
  • 1972 Golden Apple Award for Female Star of the Year
  • 1973 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
  • 1973 # 5 of the National Society of Film Critics as Best Actress : Cabaret
  • 1973 Sant Jordi Prize for Best Performance in a Foreign Film: Cabaret
  • 1974 Variety magazine named "Star of the Year"
  • 1975 Box Office Magazine named “ Box Office Magnet” of the year
  • 1976 5th place in the 10 Most Popular Singers at the Playboy Music Poll Awards
  • 1983 Prize of Honor at the Cannes International Film Festival
  • 1987 Nomination for the CableACE Award for her performance in a music special: Liza in London
  • 1987 Admission to the New York Friars Club as one of the first women ever
  • 1987/88 season Sarah Siddons Award
  • 1990 Golden Camera for her life's work, “her role as Sally Bowles in the film Cabaret , 16 sold-out concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall and her appearance on Wetten, dass ..? "
  • 1991 Billboard Magazine named it the most commercially successful live artist of the year
  • 1991 Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category "Stage" (Location: 7000 Hollywood Boulevard ) for her Broadway career
  • 1993 star outside the Warner Theater in Washington, DC
  • 1993 first star on the Sidewalk of Stars at New York's Radio City Music Hall
  • 1993 Appointment as Admiral of the Nebraska Navy by the Governor of Nebraska
  • 1996 Liberace Legend Award
  • 1999 Board of the Directors Award from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs
  • 2000, the mayor of San Francisco calls March 12 to Liza Minnelli Day of
  • 2000 Honored by the New York Drama League with a benefit gala
  • 2001 induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame
  • 2001 Life Tribute Award at a Center One / Community Healthcare AIDS charity event in Bal Harbor
  • 2005 GLAAD Media Vanguard Award "for their contributions to the increased understanding of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community"
  • 2006 Career Achievement Award from the Chicago International Film Festival
  • 2006 Julie Harris Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2007 Honorary doctorate from Mercy College in New York "for her charitable commitment and her multi-faceted career that has lasted almost half a century"
  • 2009 Independent Theater Reviewers Association Award for Best Female Theater Performance: Liza's at The Palace ....
  • 2010 The Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts
  • 2010 Straight for Equality in Entertainment Award "for your lifelong support of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people"
  • 2011 admission to the French Legion of Honor
  • 2011 AVO Session Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2011 Award for Contribution to World Cinema at the Pacific Meridian International Film Festival of Asia Pacific Countries
  • 2012 Arts Legacy Award and Fred and Adele Astaire / Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award from the Stamford Center for the Arts
  • 2013 inducted into the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame
  • 2014 nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor Ensemble in a TV Series - Comedy: Arrested Development
  • 2015 Jack Valenti Legend Award at the Italia Festival in Los Angeles

literature

  • Michael Freedland: Liza with a 'Z'. A biography of Liza Minnelli. Robson Press 1988, ISBN 0-491-03207-2 .
    • German edition: Liza Minnelli. Your films - your life. Heyne Filmbibliothek, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-453-04627-7 .
  • Wendy Leigh: Liza: Born a Star. A biography. Dutton, New York City 1993, ISBN 0-525-93515-0 .
    • German edition: Liza. The life of Liza Minnelli. Quadriga-Verlag, Weinheim / Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88679-229-3 .
  • Scott Schechter: The Liza Minnelli Scrapbook. Citadel, New York City 2004, ISBN 0-8065-2611-4 .

Web links

Commons : Liza Minnelli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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SURNAME Minnelli, Liza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minnelli, Liza May (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California, United States