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Bette Midler is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her six-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.
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Born 1 December 1945 · Q190631
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What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.
“What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.”
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RTÉ Ireland: Bette Midler pays tribute to director Mark Rydell after his death aged 97
Yardbarker: Bette Midler pays tribute to filmmaker Mark Rydell after his death aged 97
American Songwriter: Bette Midler to Receive Prestigious Honor Previously Awarded to Bruce Springsteen, Kris Kristofferson, and John Mellencamp
Yahoo: Bette Midler to be honored with the 2026 Woody Guthrie Prize
The Guardian: ‘We’re coming for his ass’: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro and Bette Midler target Trump at New York benefit concert
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Midler was awarded the Woody Guthrie Award for her "advocacy work for causes like environmental conservation, public spaces, LGBTQ+ rights, public health initiatives and a number of humanitarian causes
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Snopes rated the claim “During a December 2025 appearance on live TV, actor and singer Bette Midler said she would invest $68 million in streaming service Netflix to "rip apart the fog that has hidden the truth."” False.
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Decider: Bette Midler Calls Out Paramount On ‘WWHL’ For Continuously Denying A ‘First Wives Club’ Sequel: “We Were Really Insulted”
New York Daily News: Bette Midler’s X account disappears after Election Day
New York Post: Bette Midler and her husband have slept in ‘separate bedrooms’ for 40 years
New York Daily News: Bette Midler addresses ‘strange’ response to her request to join ‘Real Housewives’
Page Six: Bette Midler regrets not suing Lindsay Lohan for leaving ‘Bette’ after the pilot
Starred in the comedy-drama film Sitting in Bars with Cake
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2021).
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Based on the 2018 story of a rare duck spotted in Central Park
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Awarded Disney Legends (2019).
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Published video “bettemidlerVEVO Live Stream”.
Snopes rated the claim “Seth Rogen, Bette Midler, and other Hollywood "liberal heroes" were arrested during an Oscar party drug raid.” False.
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Also appeared in the role of Muv in the 2017 film Freak Show
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Published video “Mermaid throws tail into the ring! #Elections2016”.
Published video “Hitler Had Only One Big Ball (excerpt)”.
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Published video “Bette Midler's A Gift Of Love”.
Released album “A Gift of Love”.
Published video “Bette Midler - (Talk To Me Of) Mendocino”.
Published video “Bette Midler - Waterfalls (Official Lyric Video)”.
Released album “It’s the Girls!”.
Released album “Original Album Series”.
Released album “Memories of You”.
And was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special in 2011
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Midler voiced the character Kitty Galore in the animated film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
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Awarded Rachel Carson Award (2008).
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Released album “Jackpot! The Best Bette”.
Another compilation album by Midler, Jackpot: The Best Bette, was released
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Released ep “Fever (Club Mixes)”.
Which featured a duet of Christmastime pop standards "Winter Wonderland"/"Let It Snow" with Johnny Mathis
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Released album “Cool Yule”.
Released album “Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook”.
Appeared in a supporting role in Frank Oz' science fiction satire The Stepford Wives, a remake of the 1975 film of the same name also based on the Ira Levin novel
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Released album “Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook”.
Midler opened Swindler Cove Park, a new 5-acre (20,000 m2) public park on the Harlem River shore featuring specially designed educational facilities and the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse, the first community rowing facility
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To record Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook
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After 9/11, she established programs run by her foundation which help wounded service members and their families by providing them resources, including custom homes
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Released album “Bette”.
Bette, which featured Midler playing a version of herself, a divine celebrity who is adored by her fans
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Midler made an uncredited cameo appearance in Nancy Meyers' fantasy rom–com What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt
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Appeared in an episode of the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown and was featured in the animated musical film Fantasia 2000
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Released album “Bathhouse Betty”.
Midler released her ninth studio album, Bathhouse Betty, named after the nickname she was given for performing at bathhouses early in her career
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Awarded Crystal Award (1997).
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Released album “Diva Las Vegas Experience the Divine”.
Midler, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton, was a recipient of the Women in Film Crystal Award, which honors "outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence
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Released album “Bette of Roses”.
Carried the same idea to the east coast, adopting a section of the Long Island Expressway and Bronx River Parkway
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A non-profit organization with the goal of revitalizing neglected neighborhood parks in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods of New York City
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Released album “Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Gypsy (original soundtrack of the 1993 TV-show)”.
Starred with Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy in the Walt Disney Halloween comedy fantasy film, Hocus Pocus
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For her performance on the penultimate episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in May 1992, during which she sang an emotion-laden "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" to Johnny Carson
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Released album “For the Boys”.
Midler was an early sponsor of the Adopt-a-Highway, paying $2,000 a month for a crew to clean up a 2 miles (3
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To auction 114 community gardens for commercial development, Midler led a coalition of green organizations to save them
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Released album “Some People’s Lives”.
Released album “Beaches: Original Soundtrack Recording”.
Midler lent her voice to the animated character Georgette, a snobbish poodle, in Disney's Oliver & Company, and had a hit with Beaches, co-starring Barbara Hershey
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Signed a multi-picture deal with the Walt Disney Studios, where she starred in a string of successful films produced by the studio's newly formed Touchstone Pictures division
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Released album “Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!”.
Midler married artist Martin von Haselberg on December 16, 1984.
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Released album “No Frills”.
Released the album No Frills, produced by Chuck Plotkin, who was best known for his work with Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen
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Released album “Divine Madness”.
Released album “Thighs and Whispers”.
Starring in the 1960s-era rock and roll tragedy The Rose, as a drug-addicted rock star modeled after Janis Joplin
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Released album “The Rose”.
Released album “The Best of Bette”.
Released album “Live at Last”.
Midler's first television special, whose title, Ol' Red Hair is Back, was a takeoff on Frank Sinatra's Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, premiered, featuring guest stars Dustin Hoffman and Emmett Kelly
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Also released her first live album, Live at Last, a double album taken from concert performances in Cleveland, Ohio
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Released album “Broken Blossom”.
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1976).
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Released album “Songs for the New Depression”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best New Artist (1974).
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Released ep “Bette Midler”.
Received a Special Tony Award for her contribution to Broadway, with Clams on the Half Shell Revue playing at the Minskoff Theater
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Released album “Bette Midler”.
Released ep “Woman From Tokyo”.
Released album “The Divine Miss M”.
With director Richard Pearlman and the Seattle Opera
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When she began singing in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse where she managed to build up a core following
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When a car struck her while she was walking along West 44th Street in New York City
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Miss Nefertiti Regrets and Cinderella Revisited, a children's play by day and an adult show by night
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Born 1945-12-01.
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By the Andrews Sisters, to whom Midler has repeatedly referred as her idols and inspiration, as far back as her first appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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