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Bette Midler was born on the 1^st December 1945, in Honolulu, Hawaii USA of Jewish descent. She is a singer, songwriter, actress and film producer which are all sources of Bette Midler’s fame and net worth. As well as winning four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Emmies and the Tony Award, she was nominated for two Academy Awards. Midler is known for having sold more than 30 million records all over the world. She has been active in show business since 1966.

How much money has Bette accumulated over her long-spanned career? It has been reported that the overall size of Bette Midler’s net worth currently stands at $220 million. It should be mentioned that Bette earned more than $5.5 million alone from the soundtrack album from the film “The Rose” (1979).

Bette Midler grew up in Aiea, Hawai where she was educated at Radford High School. Later, she studied drama at the University of Hawaii but dropped out with a view to pursuing a career as an actress. Bette debuted in the film “Hawaii” (1966) with a small role, and using the money she earned moved to New York City. She landed roles in several off-Broadway plays and sang in the gay bathhouse to earn a living. In 1971, she landed the role in the rock opera “Tommy” (1971) and showed herself in “The Tonight Show”. Then, her fame has shot up with the release of her debut album “The Divine Miss M” (1972), which brought her the first Grammy Award as the Best New Artist. The singles “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (1972), “Friends” (1972) and “Do You Wanna Dance” (1972) topped the Billboard Top 100. More, the album became multi platinum according to sales in USA and Canada. This was her first step towards fame, success and fortune, since which Bette Midler has released 39 singles, 14 studio albums, 10 music videos, four live albums, six compilation albums, four video albums, four soundtracks and other releases. The most successful studio albums which were also certified according to sales were “Bette Midler” (1973), “Some People’s Lives” (1990), “Bette of Roses” (1995), “Bathhouse Betty” (1998), “Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook” (2003) and “It’s the Girls!” (2014). All of them added much financially to the net worth of Bette Midler.

Despite being an icon singer, Midler is also an outstanding actress. She won awards for her lead role in the drama film “The Rose” directed by Mark Rydell. In addition to the success of the film, critical acclaim and box office success, the soundtrack album released under the same name was certified multi-platinum and hit the charts, too. Other films that brought Midler awards and fame have included “Ruthless People” (1986), “Outrageous Fortune” (1987), “Big Business” (1988), “For the Boys” (1991), “Gypsy” (1993), “Get Shorty” (1995) and “The First Wives Club” (1996). It should be said that Bette has landed roles in more than 35 feature films and 27 television production items, which have increased the net worth of Bette Midler, too.

It looks like Bette was born with a silver spoon in her mouth as she has landed a successful multi-faceted career, and created a perfect family. In 1984, she married the artist Martin von Haselberg with whom she is apparently happy up to date. The family has one child, a daughter Sophie von Haselberg.

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Bette Midler Quotes

• [observation, 2015] Don’t I look fabulous? I’m a triumph of science and fiction.
• If you wants something done, you’d better do it yourself – or ask another woman to do it.
• [on the ‘girl bands’ of her youth] The Ronettes, The Chiffons, The Marvelettes, The Crystals.. they were completely and utterly wholesome and whimsical. And optimistic. The music was very optimistic and upbeat. The ballads were sometimes sad, but you knew things were going to turn out in the end. The music wasn’t bleak. This was before Bob Dylan, you know.
• [on what she perceives as the ‘pornification’ of pop music] Well, whatever strictures there were have fallen apart. And now it’s whatever you feel like doing you can do. I mean, apparently people really like to pretend they’re having sex. They really like to slap each other’s butts. [My advice?] Trust your talent. You don’t have to make a whore of yourself to get ahead. You really don’t.
• I think I’ve been really lucky because my gay crowd had followed me to the limit and the fact that they are so vocal and so full of joy each time they see me, I think that’s a very infectious energy in the audience at my shows. I think they’re the ones who brought the straight people around and it’s because of them that people get me to such a wonderful degree now.
• The glass ceiling still exists. It’s getting a little better for women, but past a certain age, certainly not.
• [on Beaches (1988)] No one was more surprised than me at how it took off and has such a place in the hearts of so many generations.
• Fame and money was partly what drove me to leave Hawaii for New York to become a singer when I was 19. When you are poor – and we were really poor – it’s human nature to want to better yourself.
• My father loved me, but until the day he died he thought it was a total waste of time and that I should have been a teacher or a nurse.
• Charm is something a lot of today’s young artists could do with. Maybe I’ll start a charm school, like they had at Motown. They don’t see it takes more than looking cute and not falling over in high heels.
• When I first heard “Wind Beneath My Wings”, I thought: “I’m not singing that.” [Longtime friend and producer] Marc Shaiman insisted and it was the biggest hit of my career.
• I’m incapable of doing anything other than entertaining. I can barely add and I’ve never been able to do my own taxes. It’s a good thing I’ve been blessed with this fantastic will to go forward, even when I hit the skids.
• [on smoking for Sue Mengers role] The cigarettes nearly killed me. I answer the phone now and people calling think it’s my husband. And my allergies in that theater – it’s a very old theater. And the hairspray! I never used hairspray. And the wigs! Let’s not talk about the fricking wigs, that was such a saga. But the cigarettes were the hardest. When I made The Rose (1979), I did smoke, I smoked for six months, and years later I tried a cigarette again and it made me sick for two weeks. These are herbal cigarettes, but smoke is smoke. I was thrilled, though, when I finally got the timing down to smoke two at once – a cigarette in one hand and a joint in the other. That was Sue.
• [her reaction of Broadway audiences] I learned to accept the audience’s happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn. I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience’s affection inside a Broadway theater – that didn’t come easily to me. Sue Mengers was way tougher than I am. You go through your life, you’re a certain age, a lot of things have happened to me, but I needed to put those aside and let the audience affect me in a simple way.
• [on her Broadway debut in one-woman show “I’ll Eat You Last”] I’d never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work – really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it – not just skip over bits and pieces. It took me a long time to actually know what the play was about – that it was a long aria with slow-moving parts, and parts with laughs and tears, and that my job was to switch gears pretty radically and seamlessly in ways that I had never done before. And this wasn’t like just one day of shooting for a movie – you had to stay healthy, your brain had to stay sharp, and you needed enough wind so when a sentence went on like a paragraph, I could still breathe. There were moments I had to eat candy, and I would have a mouth full of saliva, but no time to swallow it – so I had to learn to perform through moments like that.
• [on Misery (1990)] I turned that down because I didn’t want to saw off someone’s foot, even though the role won an Oscar [for Kathy Bates]. It was stupid to say no to those pictures. And while I was unsure about doing this play [on Broadway as Sue Mengers], I felt it was time for me to say yes.
• [on Sue Mengers who she played on Broadway] Sue even had a friend blowing marijuana smoke into her face as she passed away. She was high until the bitter end.
• As an actor you’re supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the ’90s, I wasn’t really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts. I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the Sister Act (1992) movie, but I said, “My fans don’t want to see me in a wimple.” I literally said, “My fans don’t want to see me in a wimple.”.
• [on Susan Boyle] She is an act whose time has come. People love that voice. She sings straight. She doesn’t do a lot of riffing. There are no trills, no thrills. Its straight singing and it comes from the heart.
• As Joan Crawford once said, “I’ll show ya a pair of Golden Globes!”.
• [Accusing Lady Gaga of stealing her Dolores DeLago routine] I’ve been doing singing mermaid since 1980. You can keep the meat dress and the firecracker boobs. Mermaid’s mine.
• I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
• I’m not just vain, I’m ignorant. I’m vignorant!
• On desire: If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
• I thought I would be an actorrrr. I thought I’d be Ethel Barrymore. I didn’t know who she was, but she was my idea of an actorrrr. It seemed it would be more fun to be someone else rather than myself.
• [on growing up in Hawaii]: We were very poor, it was a hard-scrabble childhood, not particularly happy. The best part was nature, which is so intense there. The sky is bright blue, the clouds are puffy, the grass is lush, it feels like you can touch the stars. But the people were not very nice. I was a white kid in a mostly Asian neighbourhood. You heard Hawaii was a great melting pot? Hooey. I had a very strong fantasy life. Sorry, what was the question? I’m bonkers. Where am I? Who am I? I love your socks.
• My parents (mother Ruth a seamstress, father Fred a painter) were not encouraging. My father put everybody down. Yeah, it was a real drag but he had his moments. His saving grace was a wicked sense of humour. He was a good provider. They were a team. They were at Pearl Harbour, they knew hardship. My mum was supportive, she had a tinge of showbiz fever and named me and my sisters after Hollywood icons. My dad was like “Get a job”. But that gave me something to fight against.
• I’m an open-space person. I’m not a believer in sprawl. I don’t particularly care for postmodern architecture. I believe in solid fare and building fair. I’m green to the core. This group I run in New York bought 60 community gardens and helped another group to buy 55 in congested neighbourhoods. I’m doing a similar thing in Hawaii, but it’s harder there, the tracts are so big and there are these things about road zoning, dams, reservoirs…
• I’m glad my daughter has been [university educated]. I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
• I’ve never been to a sex orgy in my entire life. Studio 54 was way worse than the baths.
• I was riveting. Yes, it was a place where gay men met and had sex. I didn’t see that. Someone sent me a picture showing me in a 1930s costume with my hair pulled back and all these cute young men in bathrobes watching me. It seemed very innocent. I would stand at the top of a little staircase with a towel round my head and act out whacked-out movie heroines. Patti LaBelle played there, too. I wasn’t there long, but I was there long enough to make a splash, ha-ha.
• Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
• I love Barbara Hershey and Lainie Kazan. I had no idea Beaches (1988) was an ‘uberweepie’! The nerve! It wasn’t so bad. I co-produced it. It was a pretty damned good screenplay. I thought it was just another movie. I didn’t think of it as a women’s picture. I was so excited to be able to sing again and have a soundtrack.
• I’m kind of healthy but has a little bit of arthritis, my eyes are a little shaky. I drank a little, I didn’t do drugs to any great extent. I do get depressed but not like you do if you drink or do drugs. I have pretty bad melancholia, but I’ve found you can get rid of that by exercising. [I have therapy.] A lot of people don’t love what they do and I do. I still love music and I love, love, love to dance. For most women – I can’t speak for men – I’d say dancing is the key to happiness.
• I want world peace. Please. Just for my sake, before I go. I also hope that Meryl Streep has the good taste to step aside and let the rest of us have a crack… but I know she won’t. She has a really good agent. She’s great, but I know there are some ladies behind her saying, “Meryl, for God’s sake, do you have to say yes to everything?”.
• [when asked by Parade magazine whether she will retire after her show in Las Vegas] I think so. I must say, my high kick is just as high as it ever was, thanks to tai chi. But everything is a bit slower. The mind – things don’t stick the way they used to. I feel like I’m going out with a bang. It’s something my husband and I have talked about. I certainly don’t want to die in harness. I’m not one of those people.
• I wouldn’t say I invented tack, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
• Underneath all this drag, I’m really a librarian, you know.
• In Hawaii, I was the chief chunker in a pineapple canning factory. I used to come home smelling like a compote.
• Get the trash off the street and back on the stage where it belongs.
• I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
• I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
• The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
• [2005, during a concert in Brisbane, Australia] It’s been 26 years since I was last here. Before my fans were all taking drugs; this time they’re all taking medication!
• [on acting] You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but know you’re not.
• I try not to drink too much, because when I’m drunk, I bite.

Bette Midler Important Facts

• $850,000
• $600,000
• During one time, she rented an old house off Coldwater Canyon and Richard Chamberlain was her landlord.
• Was considered for the role of Zira in The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride (1998).
• She is exactly ten years younger than her Scenes from a Mall (1991) co-star Woody Allen: Allen was born on December 1, 1935 while Midler was born on December 1, 1945.
• Bette’s paternal grandparents, Ruben Midler and Minnie Friedman, were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland. Bette’s maternal grandparents, Israel D. Schindel and Fannie Goldberger, were Jewish immigrants from Austria/Hungary and Poland.
• She launched her current show in Las Vegas, Nevada titled “The Showgirl Must Go On”. The show took place at Caesers Palace, and she performed the show for two years. [February 2008]
• Is a staunch liberal Democrat.
• Is a huge fan of Susan Boyle.
• Became pregnant by her husband Martin von Haselberg in 1987 but suffered a miscarriage.
• Despite playing her daughter in Beaches (1988), Midler is just five years younger than Lainie Kazan in real life.
• She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
• Was in a relationship with Peter Riegert. They lived together in the 1970s.
• She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6922 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 6, 1985.
• Can be seen in the crowd as an extra in Hawaii (1966) (1966) as a seasick passenger aboard a ship listening to a preacher, played by Max von Sydow. Midler was also hired for a small speaking role in the film and went to Los Angeles to film these scenes in a studio. Her scenes were cut from the final film. However, she used the money she earned to move to New York, where her career took off and she became a star.
• Graduated as valedictorian of her high school.
• While Bette was on Broadway in “Fiddler on the Roof” (she played the character Tzeitel until 1969), her sister Judy visited New York City to see her perform and was tragically struck by a taxi and killed.
• The role of Delores Van Carter in Sister Act (1992) was originally written for her. However, she turned down the role which went to Whoopi Goldberg.
• Is a huge fan and longtime friend of the late singer Rosemary Clooney.
• The last syllable of her first name is unpronounced because her mother thought that was how Bette Davis pronounced her name.
• Her album “Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook” was originally titled “Rosemary for Remembrance”. The name was changed just weeks before the album’s September 30, 2003 release.
• When the American Film Institute announced “The 100 Years of the Greatest Songs” on June 22, 2004, two of her hits were selected: “Wind Beneath My Wings” from Beaches (1988) (#44), “The Rose” from The Rose (1979), (#83).
• Is named after Bette Davis and her sisters Susan and Judy are named after Susan Hayward and Judy Garland.
• In 1974, she received a special Tony Award “for adding lustre to the Broadway season”.
• Won four Grammy Awards including the 1973 Best New Artist and the prestigious Record of the Year in 1989 for the soaring rendition of her # 1 hit “Wind Beneath My Wings” from the movie Beaches (1988).
• Ranked #51 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
• She performed a cover version of the song “Beast of Burden”. She also appeared in a music video of the song with Mick Jagger that was choreographed and cast by Lori Eastside.
• Gave birth to her only child at age 40, a daughter Sophie Frederica Alohilani von Haselberg (aka Sophie von Haselberg) on November 14, 1986. Child’s father is her husband, Martin von Haselberg.
• Was the final guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962).
• Listed as one of twelve “Promising New Actors of 1979” in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 31.
• Majored in drama at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, but dropped out after three semesters.
• Attended and graduated from Radford High School in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1963.
• Her first big album “The Divine Miss M” was produced by Barry Manilow.
• Worked at a Dole pineapple processing plant in Hawaii in her early years.
• Performed her cabaret act at the famed gay men’s club, The Continental Baths, in the 1970s with Barry Manilow as her accompanist.

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