Bette Midler
Bette Midler (/bɛt ˈmɪdlər/ bet MID-lər; born December 1, 1945) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her five-decade career, Midler has received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several off-off-Broadway plays before 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 at the Continental Baths. In this local gay bathhouse, she managed to build up a core following. Since 1970, Midler has released 14 studio albums as a solo artist, selling over 30 million records worldwide, and has received four Gold, three Platinum, and three Multi-Platinum albums from the RIAA. Many of her songs became chart hits, including her renditions of "The Rose", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "Do You Want to Dance", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", and "From a Distance". She won Grammy Awards for Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "The Rose", and Record of the Year for "Wind Beneath My Wings". Midler made her starring film debut with the musical drama The Rose (1979), which won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress. She went on to star in numerous films, including Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Ruthless People (1986), Outrageous Fortune (1987), Big Business (1988), Beaches (1988), Stella (1990), Hocus Pocus (1993) and its sequel (2022), The First Wives Club (1996), The Stepford Wives (2004), Parental Guidance (2012), and The Addams Family (2019) and its sequel (2021). Midler also had starring roles in For the Boys (1991) and Gypsy (1993), winning two additional Golden Globe Awards for these films and receiving a second Academy Award nomination for the former. Midler held a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with the show Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On from 2008 to 2010. She starred in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, which began previews in March 2017 and premiered at the Shubert Theatre in April 2017. The show was her first leading role in a Broadway musical. Midler received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bette Midler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Hocus Pocus
(Winifred Sanderson)
The First Wives Club
(Brenda Morelli Cushman)
Outrageous Fortune
(Sandy Brozinsky)
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
(Self (archive footage))
Drowning Mona
(Mona Dearly)
For the Boys
(Dixie Leonard)
Ruthless People
(Barbara Stone)
Oliver & Company
(Georgette (voice))
That Old Feeling
(Lilly Leonard)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
(Barbara Whiteman)
Then She Found Me
(Bernice Graves)
Big Business
(Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton)
The Stepford Wives
(Bobbie Markowitz)
The Women
(Leah Miller)
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
(Self (archive footage))
Goodbye, Columbus
(Wedding Guest (uncredited))
Beaches
(CC Bloom)
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
(Self)
The Detective
(Woman at Party)
The Rose
(Mary Rose Foster)
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
(Kitty Galore (voice))
Stella
(Stella Claire)
Gypsy
(Rose Hovick)
Scenes from a Mall
(Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer)
Get Bruce!
(Self)
Casting By
(Self)
Lucy and Desi
(Self)
Fantasia 2000
(Self - Host)
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
(Self)
Isn't She Great
(Jacqueline Susann)
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
(Self)
Jinxed!
(Bonita Friml)
Parental Guidance
(Diane Decker)
Hocus Pocus 3
(Winifred Sanderson)
20 Feet from Stardom
(Self)
Parkinson at 50
(Self (archive footage))
The Fabulous Four
(Marilyn)
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
(Self)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
(Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage))
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
(Self)
Bette Midler: No Frills
(Herself)
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
(Self)
Sitting in Bars with Cake
(Benita)
The Greatest Night in Pop
(Self (archive footage))
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
(Self (archive footage))
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
(Self (Interviewee))
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
(Self - Host)
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
(Self)
Six by Sondheim
(Mama Rose (archive footage))
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
(Self)
Bette Midler: One Night Only
(Self)
The Bette Midler Show
(Self - Host)
The Earth Day Special
(Mother Earth)
Mickey's 60th Birthday
(Self)
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
(Self)
Freak Show
(Muv)
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
(Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly)
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
(Self)
What Women Want
(Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited))
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
(Self)
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
(Self)
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
(Self - Narrator)
The Divine Miss M in Performance
(Self)
Live Aid
(Self)
The Addams Family
(Grandma (voice))
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
(Self)
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
(Self)
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
(Self)
The Glorias
(Bella Abzug)
Camp! The Movie
(Self)
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
(Self)
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
(Self)
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
(Host)
The Lottery
(Woman)
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
(Self)
Hawaii
(Passenger (uncredited))
Divine Madness
(Self - The Divine Miss M)
A Childhood History Plan
Earth and the American Dream
(Reader (voice))
The Divine Bette Midler
(Self)
The Thorn
(Virgin Mary)
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
(Self)
A Century of Cinema
(Self)
Coastal Elites
(Miriam Nessler)
Get Shorty
(Doris Saphron)
The Addams Family 2
(Grandma (voice))
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
(Winifred Sanderson)
Hocus Pocus 2
(Winifred Sanderson)
Jackie's Back!
(Bette Midler)
Women in Rock
(Self)
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
(Self)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
(Self)
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
(Self)
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
(Self)
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
(Self)
Cut Off
The Simpsons
(Bette Midler (voice))
Inside the Actors Studio
(Self)
Seinfeld
(Bette Midler)
The One Show
(Self - Guest)
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
(Self)
Strictly Come Dancing
(Self)
Today
(Self)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
(Self - Guest)
The View
(Self)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(Self - Guest)
Dancing on Ice
(Self - Guest)
Inside Comedy
(Self)
American Idol
(Self)
Bette
(Bette)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
(Self - Guest)
Intimate Portrait
(Self (archive footage))
Vegetable Soup
(Woody The Spoon)
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
(Self - Guest)
The Marriage Ref
(Self - Panelist)
The Oscars
(Self)
Good Day Live
(Self)
Cher
(Self - Guest)
Saturday Night Live
(Self - Musical Guest)
The Circuit
(Self - Singer/Actor)
When Ruby Wax Met...
(Self (archive footage))
Wetten, dass..?
(Self)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
(Self)
RuPaul's Drag Race
(Self (archive footage))
The Graham Norton Show
(Self)
Project Runway
(Self - Guest Judge)
MTV Video Music Awards
(Self - Host)
Wogan
(Self)
George Carlin's American Dream
(Self)
The Reichen Show
(Self - Guest)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
(Self - Guest)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
(Self - Guest)
Musikladen
(Self)
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
(Narrator (voice))
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
Tony Awards
(Self - Performer)
Entertainment Tonight
(Self)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self - Guest)
Numéro un
(Self (archive footage))
Numéro un
(Self)
The Politician
(Hadassah Gold)
Champs-Elysées
(Self (archive footage))
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
Ruby Wax Meets
(Self - Guest)
American Masters
(Self)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
(Self)
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self)
The Nanny
(Bette Midler)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(Self)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
(Self - Guest)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
(Executive Producer)
Beaches
(Producer)
For the Boys
(Producer)
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
(Director)
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
(Executive Producer)
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
(Writer)
Divine Madness
(Writer)
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
(Writer)
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
(Executive Producer)
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
(Songs)
American Masters
(Executive Producer)
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
(Creator)