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Bette Midler - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Bette Midler - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, music videos.
Comedian and singer Bette Midler was born in Hawaii, Honolulu.
She graduated from the University of Honolulu with a degree in drama actress. The parents named the girl after the famous film star Bette Davis. From early childhood, she sang something, danced and even organized a youth pop group, however, which did not win. But the reflection in the mirror made it clear that she would have to forget about the scene. Then Bette tries on the role of a clown and successfully gets used to the image.
Having reached the age of majority, she moved to New York. There he tries in vain to find work on the Broadway stage. Only two years later, the actress gets the long-awaited role - in the musical "Fiddler on the Roof". But the real popularity came to her after performing in ... a male gay sauna. There she performed songs by Bob Dylan and Rosemary Clooney. For the public, she became divine M. By the way, that is how she is still called.
Bette received her first Emmy award for the television concert Bette Midler: The Redhead Returns. It was 1976. She begins to flicker everywhere - on television in various shows, at concerts as a singer, and, of course, in films. The actress becomes a real diva like Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli. But unlike them, she did not moderate her creative activity even in her seventh decade. Miss Betty always does what she wants, for which the audience loves her.
On November 5, 2009, Bette Midler announced that she was "lowering the curtain in Las Vegas" - her play "The Showgirl Must Go On", premiered by the actress in February 2008 and repeated in the luxurious "The Colosseum at Caesars" Palace Hotel and Casino ". The last performance will take place on January 31, 2010.
In her statement on the occasion, in particular, Midler said: "It has been a fairy tale for two years ... These legs have made a great run across the desert - and perhaps it's time for them to trudge to places where there is more humidity and less slot machines." Her performance turns into another phantom of Sin City, and the singer herself returns to the studio to record a new album of love songs. The show cannot go on forever ...
