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}} Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Bette Midler Biography (1945-) ) Source notes: "Born December 1, 1945, in Paterson, NJ (some sources cite Honolulu, HI or Aiea, HI); raised in Aiea, HI".〕 is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer. In a career spanning almost half a century, Midler has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 35 million records worldwide and along with that has also received four Gold, three Platinum and three Multiplatinum albums by RIAA. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays prior to her engagements in ''Fiddler on the Roof'' and ''Salvation'' on Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse, where she managed to build up a core following. Since then, she has released 13 studio albums as a solo artist. Throughout her career, many of her songs became hits on the record charts, including her renditions of "The Rose", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "Do You Wanna Dance?", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", and "From a Distance". In 2008, she signed a contract with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to perform a series of shows titled ''Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On'', which ended in January 2010. Midler made her motion picture debut in 1979 with ''The Rose'', which earned her a Golden Globe and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress of 1980. In the following years she starred in a string of hit films that includes ''Down and Out in Beverly Hills'', ''Outrageous Fortune'', ''Beaches'', ''The First Wives Club'', and ''The Stepford Wives'', as well as ''For the Boys'' and ''Gypsy'', the latter two of which she won two further Golden Globe Awards. ==Early life and family== Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, where hers was one of the few Jewish families in a mostly Asian neighborhood. Her mother, Ruth (née Schindel; b. 1916 New Jersey), was a seamstress and housewife, and her father, Fred Midler (born 1912 in New Jersey), worked at a Navy base in Hawaii as a painter, and was also a housepainter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/58/Bette-Midler.html )〕 She was named after actress Bette Davis, though Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one, .〔Stated on ''Inside the Actors Studio'', 2004〕 She was raised in Aiea and attended Radford High School, in Honolulu.〔(The Class of 1963! We're Radgrads! ) 〕 She was voted "Most Talkative" in the 1961 school Hoss Election, and "Most Dramatic" in her senior year (class of 1963).〔(High School Hoss Elections )〕 Midler majored in drama at the University of Hawaii, but left after three semesters. She earned money in the 1966 film ''Hawaii'' as an extra,〔 playing an uncredited seasick passenger named Miss David Buff. Midler married artist Martin von Haselberg on December 16, 1984, about six weeks after their first meeting. Their daughter, Sophie Frederica Alohilani Von Haselberg, was born on November 14, 1986.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Bette Midler )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bette Midler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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