| Bette Midler |
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This person was born on the 1 st of December 1945 in Honolulu Hawaii. She grew up in Hawaii as the only white Jewish girl in her class. She went to the University of Hawaii to study drama and after 12 months she got her first small part in a film called Hawaii . Then she went on to star on Broadway in the classic musical “Fiddler On The Roof”. |
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She also did quite a bit of singing at this time and she did stints at the Continental Baths a gay hangout in New York. In the late 70's she came back to acting starring in a few films as characters such as Virgin Mary - The Thorn, Mary Rose Foster - The Rose, Bonita Friml - Jinked!, Barbara Whitman - Down & Out In Beverley Hills & Barbara Stone - Ruthless People. She also appeared on the video and sang in the choir on the song “We Are The World” |
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Over the years she has racked up many awards such as 4 Grammy's, 4 Golden Globe Awards, a Tony Award and 3 Emmy's, she has also been nominated for an OSCAR. She was still starring in lots of films playing roles such as Sandy Brozinsky - Outrageous Fame, Sadie Shelton - Big Business, Stella Clare - Stella, Deborah Fifer - Scenes From A Mall & Dixie Leonard - For The Boys. When she first started out in music she was always accompanied by Barry Mannilow on the piano when she played in clubs and he also produced her first album. |
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Over the years she has brought out many albums selling 15 million albums around the world with titles like “ The Divine Miss M” But she was still very popular in the movies as well playing characters such as Winifred Sanderson - Hocus Pocus, Doris Saphron - Get Shorty, Brenda Cushman - The First Wives Club, Lilly Leonard - That Old Feeling, Dr J.M. Perkins - What Women Want & Bobbie Markowitz - The Stepford Wives. She also supplied the voice for Georgette in the Disney film Oliver & Company . |
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And finally the one role in which she shone was as Cecilia “C C “ Bloom in the tear jerking but excellent film Beaches she is of course: |