She’s been doing it all for more than 40 years and Bette Midler is still the wind beneath our wings.
She got her start on Broadway in the late 60s in Fiddler on the Roof then developed a huge gay fan base when she began performing at Continental Bath, a gay bath house in NYC, in 1970. She began working with Barry Manilow as her accompanist and he ended up producing her landmark 1972 album The Divine Miss M. It was a smash and won Bette the Grammy for best new artist.
More Grammys were to follow as did Emmys, Golden Globes and two Oscar nominations.
Thank God this huge talent also made it big in movies starting with 1979′s The Rose. Other films have included Beaches, For the Boys, The First Wives Club, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Big Business, Hocus Pocus, Stella, Ruthless People and Outrageous Fortune.
And she’s still going strong. Happy birthday Bette!
All good things must come to an end including Bette Midler’s years-long stint at Caesar’s Palace in The Showgirl Must Go On.
Bette’s final performance came on Sunday night and the Divine Miss M said: “What a fabulous two years this has been, and I thank AEG and Caesars Palace for the best partnership a showgirl could imagine. Who knows? These legs have had such a great run in the desert—it may be time to haul them to places with more humidity and fewer slot machines.”
Actress Bette Midler wants to reunite with Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton for a sequel to 1996 comedy movie The First Wives' Club.
The trio played three spurned women who seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women, in the comedy hit.
Midler insists Hollywood sexism prevented them from making a follow-up sooner, but she's not given up hope - and is hoping to bring the story up to date on the big screen.
The star says, "I really do regret the fact that we didn't get to do a sequel earlier and it's funny when women have a big success, they say, 'Ah, it's a fluke', but when men have a big success they bring a sequel straight out. We had a huge hit but then they couldn't get it together for a sequel, it wasn't organised enough to get it done again. So it really broke my heart.
"I was actually thinking in the shower the other day, has it been too long? Will people remember? It's been two generations! I think if they got it together I think the crowd would come out for it, I really do."
She’s been doing it all for more than 40 years and Bette Midler is still the wind beneath our wings.
