The unofficial site of Bette Midler

Bette Midler is simply the best at singing, acting, and keeping the audience with great entertainment to make them cry and laugh at the same time. She is a four-time Grammy award winner and academy nominated actress. With a career spanning for over five decades, she is really a national treasure.

Born in Hawaii in the year of 1945, Bette was a part of the only Jewish family in the area of Honolulu. Her first role was a sea sick girl in "Hawaii", her first big feature role was her début in the critically acclaimed box office smash "The Rose", a fictional account of the life of Janis Joplin, and the title track became a Top Ten hit.

She was signed to Atlantic Records and released The Divine Miss M (1972), which went gold and included a Top Ten single cover of the Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." Bette Midler (1973) was similarly successful.

Bette's album sales fell off during the rest of the '70s, though her records always reached the Top 100 in the album chart., 1980 saw the release of Midler's concert film, Divine Madness, and her best-selling book, -A View from a Broad. Her next film, Jinxed (1982), however, was a major flop, and subsequent records didn't fare well. Midler made a cinematic comeback with Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), but it wasn't until 1989 that she had another pop hit, when her version of "Wind Beneath My Wings" from her film Beaches became a number one hit. This rejuvenated her singing career, and 1990's Some People's Lives became a Top Ten, million-selling album, with the song "From a Distance" hitting number two. Midler's soundtrack album to her 1991 film For the Boys was also a gold-selling hit.

Bette appeared in a television production of the Broadway musical Gypsy that produced a charting soundtrack album in 1993 following the release of her million-selling hits collection Experience the Divine. The gold-selling Bette of Roses (1995) was her first regular album release in five years. Her 1996 film The First Wives Club was a major box office success. In 1998, she switched to Warner Bros. Records and released Bathhouse Betty, which went gold. With film opportunities drying up, the 54-year-old singer/actress turned to television, developing a half-hour network comedy series based on her own life. Though it didn't last long, Bette premiered on CBS on October 11, 2000; six days later, she released a second Warner Bros. album, also called Bette. Bette has also teamed up with Barry Manilow on numerous occasions including her newest album, Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook, which of course was a tribute to their dear friend Rosemary Clooney.