Bette Midler

Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945), is a singer, actress, and comedian. She is named after the legendary actress Bette Davis, although Midler pronounces her name as one syllable, not two. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Jewish parents from New Jersey, she majored in drama at the University of Hawaii, but got her start singing in the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse in New York City, where, she became friends, with, among others, Barry Manilow, who was her piano accompanist. He produced her first major album, The Divine Miss M (also the name by which she is known to her fans).

Filmography

• Hawaii (1966)
• Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972) (voice only)
• The Thorn (1974)
• The Rose (1979)
• Divine Madness! (1980)
• Jinxed! (1982)
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
• Ruthless People (1986)
• The Lottery (1987) (short subject)
• Outrageous Fortune (1987)
• Big Business (1988)
• Oliver & Company (1988) (voice)
• Beaches (1988)
• Stella (1990)
• Scenes from a Mall (1991)
• For the Boys (1991)
• Hocus Pocus (1993)
• A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
• Get Shorty (1995) (Cameo)
• The First Wives Club (1996)
• That Old Feeling (1997)
• Get Bruce (1999) (documentary)
• Fantasia/2000 (1999)
• Drowning Mona (2000)
• Isn't She Great (2000)
• What Women Want (2000)
• The Stepford Wives (2004)