Bette Midler
Highest Rated: 94% Ruthless People (1986)
Lowest Rated: 13% Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)
Birthday: Dec 01, 1945
Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Bette Midler built a successful stage, screen and recording career on the basis of her self-styled "Divine Miss M" character - a sassy, hip-wagging classic "broad" archetype. She was quick with the comebacks, took no guff and had a tendency to burst into tunes from the Great American Songbook. Her initial stage fame and string of nostalgia-tinged hit albums in the 1970s eventually led to big screen success, with dramas like the pseudo Janis Joplin biopic "The Rose" (1980) and three-hankie chick flick "Beaches" (1990). She also lent appropriately outrageous variations of Miss M to comedies including "Ruthless People" (1986), "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (1986) and "The First Wives Club" (1996). In an era where stage, screen and recording crossover success was rare, only Liza Minnelli rivaled Midler when it came to endless concert tour schedules and triumph in all genres. More than 30 years into her career, the entertainer was still scoring hits with such albums as 1998's Bathhouse Betty and the televised special of her acclaimed Caesar's Palace act "Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On" (HBO, 2010). As a film star, live performer and winner of Grammy, Emmy and Golden Globe awards, Midler was an entertainment icon of the highest order.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Addams Family 2 | Grandma (Voice) | - | 2021 |
| 55% | 50% | Coastal Elites | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 44% | 69% | The Addams Family | Grandma (Voice) | $673K | 2019 |
| 52% | 68% | Freak Show | Muv (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 18% | 59% | Parental Guidance | Diane Decker (Character) | $77.3M | 2012 |
| 13% | 38% | Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore | Kitty Galore (Voice) | $43.6M | 2010 |
| 14% | 38% | The Women | Leah Miller (Character) | $26.9M | 2008 |
| 50% | 44% | Then She Found Me | Bernice (Character) | $3.7M | 2007 |
| 26% | 30% | The Stepford Wives | Bobbie Markowitz (Character) | $59.5M | 2004 |
| 45% | 65% | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Executive Producer | $69.6M | 2002 |
| 29% | 46% | Drowning Mona | Mona Dearly (Character) | $15.4M | 2000 |
| 25% | 38% | Isn't She Great | Jacqueline Susann (Character) | $3M | 2000 |
| 81% | 75% | Fantasia 2000 | Hostess (Voice) | $60.5M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Jackie's Back! | Herself (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 71% | 44% | Get Bruce! | Herself (Character) | $43.2K | 1999 |
| 43% | 59% | That Old Feeling | Lilly Leonard (Character) | $16.3M | 1997 |
| 50% | 68% | The First Wives Club | Brenda Cushman (Character) | $105.5M | 1996 |
| 88% | 70% | Get Shorty | Doris Saphron (Character) | $68.8M | 1995 |
| 57% | 76% | Gypsy | Mama Rose (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 39% | 71% | Hocus Pocus | Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson (Character) | $4.8M | 1993 |
| 43% | 75% | For the Boys | Dixie Leonard (Character) | $17.7M | 1991 |
| 20% | 77% | Stella | Stella Claire (Character) | $20.1M | 1990 |
| 32% | 25% | Scenes From a Mall | Deborah Fifer (Character) | $9.2M | 1990 |
| 50% | 62% | Oliver & Company | Georgette (Voice) | - | 1988 |
| 40% | 88% | Beaches |
Cecilia 'CC' Carol Bloom (Character), Producer |
$56.4M | 1988 |
| 44% | 69% | Big Business |
Sadie Ratliff/ |
$39.6M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lottery | Unknown (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 50% | 61% | Outrageous Fortune | Sandy Brozinsky (Character) | $52.8M | 1987 |
| 79% | 52% | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Barbara Whiteman (Character) | $60.2M | 1986 |
| 94% | 72% | Ruthless People | Barbara Stone (Character) | $70.9M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Jinxed! | Bonita Friml (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Divine Madness |
Herself/ |
- | 1980 |
| 78% | 81% | The Rose | Mary Rose Foster (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thorn | Virgin Mary (Character) | - | 1973 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 34% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today |
Music Performer, Guest |
2020 2014 2011 2008 |
| 49% | 81% | The Politician | Hadassah Gold (Character) | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today 3rd Hour | Guest | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murphy Brown | Caprice Caputowitz Feldman Morton (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Morning America | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Celebrity Page | Guest | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sunday Today With Willie Geist | Guest | 2016-2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CBS News Sunday Morning | Guest | 2017 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | The Voice | Guest | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Music Performer | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live! With Kelly and Michael | Music Performer | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Music Performer | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nightlife Television | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The View | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2014 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CBS This Morning | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside Comedy | Unknown (Character) | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tonight Show With Jay Leno | Guest | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Katie | Guest | 2012-2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Project Runway | Guest | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Made in Hollywood | Guest | 2012 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Entertainers: With Byron Allen | Guest | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joy Behar Show | Guest | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live With Regis and Kelly |
Guest, Host |
2009-2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | ES.TV | Guest | 2010 |
| 33% | No Score Yet | The Marriage Ref | Guest | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Oprah Winfrey Show | Guest | 2008 |
| 62% | No Score Yet | Bette |
Bette (Character), Executive Producer |
2000-2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murphy Brown | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | The Nanny | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| 88% | 94% | Seinfeld | Herself (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| 85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Herself (Guest Voice) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saturday Night Live | Music Performer | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Carson | Guest | 1973 |
QUOTES FROM Bette Midler CHARACTERS
Artie Decker says: I don't feel welcome here.
Diane Decker says: After your kids grow up, your husband is the one who stays.
Diane Decker says: *To Violin Teacher* If you EVER speak to my Granddaughter like that again..There will be nothing left of you but some red hair and an accent..Is that clear comrade?
Diane Decker says: [to Violin Teacher] If you EVER speak to my Granddaughter like that again..There will be nothing left of you but some red hair and an accent... Is that clear comrade?
Diane Decker says: You gotta shape up Artie! You know what Grandparenting is? A Second chance!
Diane Decker says: After your kids grow up..Your husband is the one who stays!
Diane Decker says: After your kids grow up... Your husband is the one who stays!
Alice Simmons says: That's not bad!
Diane Decker says: Not Bad? She looks like a 12 year old widow!
Artie Decker says: I'm not going!
Diane Decker says: You're going!
Artie Decker says: That's what I meant!
Diane Decker says: *looks at Artie when he doesn't know he has paint on his face* What's wrong with your face?
Diane Decker says: [looks at Artie when he doesn't know he has paint on his face] What's wrong with your face?
Artie Decker says: Oh and you're such a pleasure in the morning?!
Artie Decker says: Oh and you're such a pleasure in the morning?
Artie Decker says: I don't think these kids like me
Artie Decker says: I don't think these kids like me.
Diane Decker says: They have to know you better before they don't like you!
Sadie Shelton/ Sadie Ratliff says: "Isn't it exciting?" (Referring to New York City as they drive into Manhattan)
Sadie Shelton/ Sadie Ratliff says: Isn't it exciting? [referring to New York City as they drive into Manhattan]
Rose Shelton says: /Rose Ratliff "Oh yeah, the noise, the smog, the crowds, the muggers, sex fiends, white slavers, politicians, it's a pistol. I got about as much use for it as a toad has for spit curls!"
Rose Shelton says: Oh yeah, the noise, the smog, the crowds, the muggers, sex fiends, white slavers, politicians, it's a pistol. I got about as much use for it as a toad has for spit curls!
Georgette says: [Fagin, Jenny, Oliver and company are being chased by Sykes] SAVE ME! SAVE ME, ALONZO!
Tito says: HEY, GET OFF MY BACK WOMAN! I'M DRIVING!
Georgette says: I, um, hope you won't think me rude, but do you happen to know out of whose BOWL you're eating?
Oliver says: Yours?
Georgette says: [sarcastically] Ooh! Aren't you a clever kitty! And do you have any idea whose HOME this is?
Oliver says: I... thought it was Jenny's.
Georgette says: Well, it may be Jenny's *house*, but everything from the doorknobs down is MINE!
Diane Decker says: Our grandchildren are gonna love me!
Artie Decker says: What about me?
Diane Decker says: That's your problem.
CC Bloom says: Hilary you got so fat!
Hillary Whitney Essex says: I'm not fat I'm having a baby
Hillary Whitney Essex says: I'm not fat I'm having a baby.
CC Bloom says: You're not, You're having a baby?
CC Bloom says: You're not. You're having a baby?
Hillary Whitney Essex says: I'm Three Months Pregnant
Hillary Whitney Essex says: I'm three months pregnant.
CC Bloom says: That's great
CC Bloom says: That's great.
Hillary Whitney Essex says: Before I caught him with that woman we made love and that's when it ...
CC Bloom says: (interrupts) What woman?
Hillary Whitney Essex says: There was this woman I caught them together ...
CC Bloom says: (interrupts) Michael?
Hillary Whitney Essex says: Of course Michael and that's when it happened, and he doesn't want it because he's going to marry her. Can you believe it he's going to marry her?
CC Bloom says: (to bartender) Would you make this a double please?
CC Bloom says: (to Hillary) Let me get this straight. You caught Michael with another woman?
Hillary Whitney Essex says: Yes
Hillary Whitney Essex says: Yes.
CC Bloom says: And now you're going to have a baby all on your own
Hillary Whitney Essex says: Mmhmm (shakes head)
CC Bloom says: Oh Hillary I think that's wonderful
Hillary Whitney Essex says: You do?
CC Bloom says: I think it's the most exciting thing and if it's a girl will you name it after me? (hugs Hillary)
Hillary Whitney Essex says: (quietly) Yes
Hillary Whitney Essex says: (quietly) Yes.
Chief Wyatt Rash says: [talking to Mona] when life gives you potato's, make potato salad.
Chief Wyatt Rash says: [talking to Mona] When life gives you potato's, make potato salad.
Mona Dearly says: life gave me a handful of shit. what do I make with that Chief?
Mona Dearly says: Life gave me a handful of shit. what do I make with that Chief?
Phil Dearly says: shit salad?!
Phil Dearly says: Shit salad?
Kitty Galore says: Meow.
Kitty Galore says: You Fools!
Kitty Galore says: I will enslave all mankind [Cackling]
Chuck says: Kitty! I'm home.
Kitty Galore says: I will enslave all of mankind! [Cackles]
Kitty Galore says: I will enslave all of mankind! [cackles]
Kitty Galore says: [Repeated line] Mwahahahahahahaha!
Georgette says: [shouts while the others are sneaking] OW! I broke a nail!
Francis says: Oh, balderdash...
Tito says: [get right up in Francis's face] What'you call my woman?
Georgette says: [singing] Pretty is nice, but still, it's just pretty!
Georgette says: [singing] You pretty pups all over the city, I have your hearts and you have my pity!
Georgette says: What's the matter, Spot? Not good enough for you? Why, do you even know who I am?
Kitty Galore says: Meow!
Kitty Galore says: I will enslave all mankind! Mwahahahahahaha!
Kitty Galore says: I will enslave all mankind! Mwahahaha!
Kitty Galore says: Behold, my glorious device!