Bette Midler Information

Bette Midler, named after Bette Davis, was born to Fred and Ruth Midler in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 1, 1945. Bette's father was a house painter and her mother was a housewife. Bette grew up with her two older sisters Judith, named after Judy Garland, and Susan, named after Susan Hayward, and her younger brother, Daniel, who was mentally disabled. When Bette was young, she attended several plays and musicals, which sparked her interest in the theatre. After graduating high school, Bette got a bit part in the movie "Hawaii" where she earned enough money to move to New York, hoping someone would discover her. In 1970, Bette started performing at small nightclubs for free where Steve Ostrow, the man who ran the Continental Baths, noticed her.

He offered her a job immediately and Bette began creating her unbelievable act and alter ego, "The Divine Miss M." Bette would perform songs like "Delta Dawn," "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," and Superstar - a song made popular by The Carpenters. In 1972, Bette began working on her first album, "The Divine Miss M," and took a cross-country tour promoting her album. The album peaked at #9 on Billboard's Top 200 Chart and spawned several hit singles, such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," and "Do You Want to Dance?" During the 1974 Grammy awards, Bette was awarded a Grammy for "Best New Artist." With great reviews on Bette's first album, she began work on her second self-titled album, Bette Midler.

The album went gold immediately and peaked at #9. In 1976, Bette set out on another cross-country tour entitled "The Depression Tour," which she hoped would help album sales of her latest album. The show, as with "Clams," was very successful, and was turned into a critically acclaimed HBO TV special called "The Fabulous Bette Midler Show." The tour also spawned the album "Live at Last," which to this day encompasses every essence of what a live Bette Midler show is like. In 1977, she released her fourth studio album, "Broken Blossom" and starred in her first TV special "Ol' Red Hair Is Back." The album was critically successful, gaining a lot of positive reviews, but the sales were no comparison to her first two albums. In 1978, after long negotiations, Bette stepped into her first film role as Mary Rose Foster, in the film "The Rose," about a self-destructive rock-singer loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin. On December 14, 1984, Bette was married to Martin von Hasselberg.

Hasselberg was one half of the duo "The Kipper Kids." Bette and Martin's daughter, Sophie, was born in 1986. Bette's father, Fred, died shortly before Sophie was born. Also in 1986, Bette signed a contract with Disney to star in several films, such as Ruthless People, with Danny DeVito, Outrageous Fortune, with Shelley Long, and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, with Nick Nolte, to name a few. Bette became the queen of comedy, and one of Disney's highest grossing and highest paid stars of the 1980's. Bette won 5 American Comedy Awards for these films. In June of 1993, Bette released a compilation of her greatest hits, the album was "Experience the Divine." In 1996, Bette starred in The First Wives Club along with Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton.

The film proved to be Bette's highest grossing film. It earned roughly $105 million. In 2003, Bette teamed up with old musical partner, Barry Manilow to pay tribute to one of their idols, Rosemary Clooney. Their Album "Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook" was released on September 30, 2003. The album soon went to Gold, selling over 500,000 copies in less than 3 months.

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