
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
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Addams Family 2 | Grandma (Voice) | - | 2021 |
55% | 56% | Coastal Elites | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
44% | 69% | The Addams Family | Grandma (Voice) | $673K | 2019 |
53% | 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! | Self | - | 1999 |
71% | 44% | Get Bruce! | Self | $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 |
38% | 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 |
40% | 88% | Beaches |
Cecilia 'CC' Carol Bloom (Character), Producer |
$56.4M | 1988 |
50% | 62% | Oliver & Company | Georgette (Voice) | - | 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
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No Score Yet | 35% | 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 |
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