BETTE MIDLER - Original '70s On-Stage Color Photo

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BETTE MIDLER  -  RARE  COLOR  8" x 10"  CONCERT PHOTO , 1970s
PRINTED FROM ORIGINAL TRANSPARENCY on GLOSSY PAPER & VERY SHARP
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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
. 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.
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 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).
Bette matched feisty
James Caan
in the WWII drama
For the Boys
(1991), made a dynamic trio with
Goldie Hawn
and
Diane Keaton
in
The First Wives Club
(1996), was back on screen with DeVito for the tepid comedy
Drowning Mona
(2000) and turned up in the glossy remake of
The Stepford Wives
(2004). Apart from her four Grammy awards, Bette Midler has also won four Golden Globes, one Tony Award, and three Emmy Awards, plus she has sold in excess of 15 million albums worldwide. Most recently, she toured with her sassy "Kiss My Brass" show, and is promoting her album "Bette Midler Sings the
Rosemary Clooney
Songbook".