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With that money, she moved to the Big Apple, Manhattan, New York City, New York, where she landed a role in an Off-Off-Broadway play called “Miss Nefertiti Regrets,” followed by an interesting juxtaposition of kid’s show during the day, adult show during the night called “Cinderella Revisited.”

A true Duchess (really, in 1986 she married the man she announced on The Actor’s Studio is an honest-to-goodness Duke), her singing career began in 1970 in a gay bathhouse called the Continental Baths where she and her accompanist, a young Barry Manilow, collaborated on producing Midler’s first studio album, 1973’s “The Divine Miss M.”

One of Bette Midler’s most acclaimed roles, and one for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, was in “The Rose” in which she played a different musical legend, the late great Janis Joplin.

Her film career only took off from there, with leading roles in such hits as “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” “Big Business,” “Outrageous Fortune,” “Ruthless People,” “Scenes from a Mall,” “For the Boys,” and “The Stepford Wives.”

It is perhaps the theme song from the movie “Beaches” (in which she also starred), The Wind Beneath My Wings, that made Bette Midler a household name. That song earned her the 1989 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. She also participated in the world-renowned charity performance, We Are the World. Another of Bette Midler’s most widely-acclaimed hit songs was her 1990 Grammy-winner, From a Distance.

One Tony Award, three Emmy Awards, and four Grammy Awards later, Bette Midler has been nothing if not busy throughout her life, as between 1970 and 2005 she serenaded audiences on 18 tours, highlighting hits from 13 studio albums, three live albums, three compilation albums, four soundtrack albums, and more singles than even she can shake a stick at.

Bette Midler’s latest performance (and her 19 th tour), is called “The Showgirl Must Go On.” Debuting February 20, the extravaganza is on a rotating schedule along with headliners (and fellow legends) Elton John and Cher at the Colosseum in Las Vegas, Nevada’s Caesars Palace. When it’s her turn to perform (such as between June 24 and July 20), Bette Midler’s “The Showgirl Must Go On” goes on five nights each week, gracing the rotating Caesar’s Palace schedule through, at least, 2010.

As brash and brassy as she is sexy and sultry, Bette Midler is one act not to be missed.