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Bette Midler
She actually made her film debut as an extra in the 1968 epic Hawaii and it wasn't after years of performing in Greenwich Village bathhouses, that she made an impressive screen debut in the 1979 film The Rose, which earned her an Oscar nomination. She has been floating from movies to television to the concert stage for decades and a couple of years ago, won a Tony award for her Broadway debut in a revival of Hello Dolly!. I have posted the opening number from her Emmy winning concert Diva Las Vegas, her final devastating number at the closing of The Rose and the opening number from Hello Dolly called "I Put My Hand In":
Bette Midler
She actually made her film debut as an extra in the 1968 epic Hawaii and it wasn't after years of performing in Greenwich Village bathhouses, that she made an impressive screen debut in the 1979 film The Rose, which earned her an Oscar nomination. She has been floating from movies to television to the concert stage for decades and a couple of years ago, won a Tony award for her Broadway debut in a revival of Hello Dolly!. I have posted the opening number from her Emmy winning concert Diva Las Vegas, her final devastating number at the closing of The Rose and the opening number from Hello Dolly called "I Put My Hand In":