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Name: |
Bette Midler |
| DOB: |
01, December 1945 |
| Birth Place: |
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
| Height: |
5' 1" |
| Also Credited: |
The Divine Miss M |
| Profession: |
Singer / Actress |
| Spouse: |
Martin von Haselberg (present) |
| AT A GLANCE |
Bette started her worked when she was in school. At age of twenty, she decided to follow in her name sake, and take up acting. Even landed her first professional job in 1965 in the movie, Hawaii.
Finally she moved to New York where she became a glove sales woman in Sterns Department
Store.
In the year of 1967, Bette took over one of the leading roles as, Tzeitel. And held that part for three years. But singing late night after the show was where Bette got her big break. She was noticed by an executive from the David Frost show, and appeared several times with David and on the Merv Grifin Show.
In the year of 1971, Bette played the dual roles of Acid Queen, and Mrs. Walker in a Seattle
opera. Later in the year Bette made her first appearance in New York in the, Down Stairs at the Upstairs. During the next year Bette appeared with Carson at the Sahara in Las Vegas, in June she sang to an
audience with standing room only. In November of 1972 her first album was
released, by Atlantic records it was called, The Divine Mrs. M. The album sold over
one lac records its first month. In between then and Bette's first appearance on the
silver serene. She released two albums, Songs for the new Depression, in 1974 and, Broken Blossom in 1977. Bettes first big movie was The Rose, which came out in 1979. Bette was
selected for an Academy Award for Best Actress, and won two golden globes for her
performance.
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| TRIVIA |
Bette Midler has brown eyes, and natural blonde hair.
Bette Midler worked at a Dole pineapple processing plant in Hawaii in her early years.
In 1974 she received a special Tony Award for her work on her Palace Concert Show.
She is a member of Delta Phi Epsilon Internation Sorority.
Bette appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "We Are The World."
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| QUOTES |
| In the year of 1991, she received her second Oscar. |
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