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Won the 2017 Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical Tony Award for her performance as Dolly Gallagher Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" on June 11, 2017.

She launched a show in Las Vegas, Nevada titled "The Showgirl Must Go On," taking place at Caesers Palace. She performed the show for two years. [February 2008]

When the American Film Institute announced "The 100 Years of the Greatest Songs" on June 22, 2004, two of her hits were selected: "Wind Beneath My Wings" from Beaches (1988) (#44), "The Rose" from The Rose (1979), (#83).

Her album "Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook" was originally titled "Rosemary for Remembrance". The name was changed just weeks before the album's September 30, 2003 release.

Was considered for the role of Zira in The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (1998).

The role of Delores Van Carter in Sister Act (1992) was originally written for her. However, she turned down the role which went to Whoopi Goldberg.

Despite playing her daughter in Beaches (1988), Midler is just five years younger than Lainie Kazan in real life.

Was five months pregnant with her daughter Sophie von Haselberg when she completed filming on Outrageous Fortune (1987).

In 1986, director Paul Mazursky cast Midler opposite Nick Nolte and Richard Dreyfuss in the hilarious Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), and so began a string of very funny comedic film roles.

She played an obnoxious wife who was the victim of a kidnap plot by her scoundrel husband, played by Danny DeVito, in Ruthless People (1986), was pursued by CIA and KGB spies in Outrageous Fortune (1987), played mismatched twins with Lily Tomlin in Big Business (1988) and shone in the tear-jerker Beaches (1988).

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6922 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 6, 1985.

After minor roles in several film/TV productions, she surprised all with her knockout performance of a hard-living rock-and-roll singer (loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin) in The Rose (1979), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

In 1974, she received a special Tony Award "for adding lustre to the Broadway season".

Won four Grammy Awards including the 1973 Best New Artist and the prestigious Record of the Year in 1989 for the soaring rendition of her # 1 hit "Wind Beneath My Wings" from the movie Beaches (1988).

Her first album was "The Divine Miss M" released in November 1972, followed by the self-titled "Bette Midler" released in November 1973, both of which took off up the music charts, and Bette's popularity swiftly escalated from there.

Performed her cabaret act at the famed gay men's club, The Continental Baths, in the 1970s with Barry Manilow as her accompanist.

While Bette was on Broadway in "Fiddler on the Roof" (she played the character Tzeitel until 1969), her sister Judy visited New York City to see her perform and was tragically struck by a taxi and killed.

Can be seen in the crowd as an extra in Hawaii (1966) (1966) as a seasick passenger aboard a ship listening to a preacher, played by Max von Sydow. Midler was also hired for a small speaking role in the film and went to Los Angeles to film these scenes in a studio. Her scenes were cut from the final film. However, she used the money she earned to move to New York, where her career took off and she became a star.

Attended and graduated from Radford High School in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1963.

Was the final guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962).

Multi Grammy Award-winning singer/comedienne/author Bette Midler has also proven herself to be a very capable actress in a string of both dramatic and comedic roles. Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945. She is the daughter of Ruth (Schindel), a seamstress, and Fred Midler, a painter. Her parents, originally from New Jersey, were both from Jewish families (from Russia, Poland, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Midler studied drama at the University of Hawaii and got her musical career started by performing in gay bathhouses with piano accompaniment from Barry Manilow.

She is exactly ten years younger than her Scenes from a Mall (1991) co-star Woody Allen: Allen was born on December 1, 1935 while Midler was born on December 1, 1945.

Daughter of Fred (1908-1986) and Ruth (née Schindel) Midler (1911-1979). Both were born and raised in the state of New Jersey.