Bette Midler On Growing Up: “They were very strict. I got to go to the movies only if they were musicals, because my mother didn’t want me to seethose things. I never swore until I was 17. If you said darn in our house, you got beaten within an inch of your life. I never had boyfriends until high school, and then I found myself mainly with military kids because a lot of them were nice and smart.” (Newsweek, 1973)
