2008 The Women

2007 Then She Found Me

2004 The Stepford Wives

2000 What Women Want (uncredited)

2000 Isn't She Great

2000 Drowning Mona

1997 That Old Feeling

1996 The First Wives Club

1995 Get Shorty (uncredited)

1993 Gypsy Mama

1993 Hocus Pocus

1991 For the Boys (Academy Award nomination - Best Actress)

1991 Scenes from a Mall

1990 Stella

1988 Beaches

1988 Oliver and Company (voice)

1988 Big Business

1987 Outrageous Fortune

1986 Ruthless People

1986 Down and Out in Beverly Hills

1982 Jinxed!

1979 The Rose (Academy Award nomination - Best Actress)

1966 Hawaii (uncredited)

Television and other works

2000 Bette

1999 Fantasia 2000

1999 Jackie's Back

1999 Get Bruce

1997 Diva Las Vegas (TV special)

1990 Earth Day Special

1989 The Lottery (Created to demonstrate special effects; shown only at Disney-MGM Studios)

1984 Art Or Bust

1984 Divine Miss M. (TV special)

1980 Divine Madness

1980 Divine Miss M. (concert film)

1976 Vegetable Soup (voice)

1974 The Thorn

1972 Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (voice)

1972 The Divine Miss M

1973 Bette Midler

1976 Songs for the New Depression

1977 Broken Blossom

1979 Thighs and Whispers

1979 The Rose Soundtrack

1983 No Frills

1988 Beaches Soundtrack

1990 Some People's Lives

1991 For The Boys Soundtrack

1993 Gypsy Soundtrack

1995 Bette of Roses

1998 Bathouse Betty

2001 Bette

2003 Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook

2005 Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook

2006 Cool Yule

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Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known (as her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards.

Midler's manager and boyfriend for a significant period was Aaron Russo.


Midler married Martin von Haselberg (Harry Kipper of her opening act the Kipper Kids) on December 16, 1984 in a chapel in Las Vegas. They had a daughter, Sophie Frederica Alohilani von Haselberg, on November 14, 1986. Sophie is currently a student at Yale University.


While Midler was on Inside the Actor's Studio she revealed that her husband is a Duke and officially she is a Duchess.