Movies: Bette Midler

A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with ...

Train wreck, some might call it a TV special, proving that not everything was better in the good old days. That includes Rolling Stone Magazine....

Three women are forced to spend Christmas together, along with their children and grandchildren, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store....

In this spoof of a television talk show, Midler portrays the Italian bombshell hostess, Mondo Beyondo. Her guests include monologuist David Cale; Bill Irwin, mime, comedian and clown; and the bizarre Kipper Kids....

Divine Madness is a 1980 concert film directed by Michael Ritchie, and featuring Bette Midler during her 1979 concert at Pasadena's Civic Auditorium. The 94-minute film features Midler's stand-up comedy routines as well as 16 songs, including "Big No...

Jennifer Saunders hosts a party of AbFab outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage....

Joanna Lumley hosts Bette Midler: One Night Only to celebrate 50 years of a divine career of The Divine Miss M, talking about her upcoming tour and her new album and perform her favourite songs she has recorded for over 50 years....

The Greatest Ears in Town is an insightful documentary and testimonial to Arif Mardin; the producer, arranger, musician and multi Grammy award winner....

The Divine Miss M is featured in a concert filmed at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, at the culmination of her most recent cross-country tour which was known as "De Tour". This live recording was a combination of footage from both September...

In 1977, Bette Midler's first television special premiered, featuring guest stars Dustin Hoffman and Emmett Kelly. It went on to win Bette her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Special — Comedy-Variety or Music. To make the show palatable to home vi...

Diva Las Vegas was a show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas starring Bette Midler performing as singer and comedian. The one-time performance was filmed for television; HBO released it as a TV special originally broadcast on January 18, 1997...

Only the Divine Miss M could ring in the new millennium with such grandeur and style. Bette Midler's 1999-2000 concert tour to promote her Bathhouse Betty album. Live from Seattle....

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song is a documentary which examines how the song was written, how producer Quincy Jones and songwriters Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie persuaded some of the most popular performers in America to donate their...

A series of vignettes involving various Biblical characters, including 'The Divine Mr. J', the Virgin Mary, a lecherous priest, King Herod, among others....

This half-hour family special is a delightful combination of animated adaptations of classic holiday songs - performed by top stars ranging from Frank Sinatra to Macy Gray - plus live-action shots. The animated segments feature classic and all-new re...

A look back at the first 100 years of the movies....

Hosted by Bette Midler, enjoy a musical tribute to the man who wrote some of the most enduring songs in American popular music. Lyricist Hal David and composer Burt Bacharach dominated the pop-music charts in the 1960s and early ’70s, crafting dozens...

A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s....

The internationally renowned superstar Barry Manilow takes requests for Christmas songs and performs live with a band, an orchestra, and special guests including Cyndi Lauper. And in a rare holiday treat, old friends Barry and Bette Midler join toget...

Originally broadcast as an exclusive special on HBO, Barbra Streisand launched her September 6, 1986 concert One Voice, in part, as a protest against Reagan-era nuclear arms proliferation in the late Cold War; the event marked the diva's first offici...