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Sue Mengers was way tougher than I am. You go through your life, you’re a certain age, a lot of things have happened to me, but I needed to put those aside and let the audience affect me in a simple way…

[her reaction of Broadway audiences] “I learned to accept the audience’s happiness for me, which is one of the hardest…

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Sue even had a friend blowing marijuana smoke into her face as she passed away. She was high until the bitter end…

[on Sue Mengers who she played on Broadway] “Sue even had a friend blowing marijuana smoke into her face as…

I thought I would be an actorrrr. I thought I’d be Ethel Barrymore…

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BetteBack January 22, 1995: What Happened To Other Bette Midler TV Musicals?

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The Original Six: The Story of Hollywood’s Forgotten Feminist Crusaders.

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Bette Midler On Motherhood:

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BetteBack December 28, 1993: Memorable Moments From Television 1993

Syracuse Post Standard December 28, 1993 In a cockeyed channel-surfing world, the memorable TV moments multiply. Cable is everywhere. Fiber…

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BetteBack December 12, 1993: Bette Midler pulls out all the stops in ‘Gypsy’

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BetteBack December 11, 1993: Divine Miss M stars in Gypsy

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BetteBack December 10, 1993: The Pairing Of Bette Midler And “Gypsy” Is Inspired

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BetteBack December 9, 1993: So Who is The Highest Paid Actress In Hollywood?

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BetteBack December 11, 1993: Midler stars in CBS version of ‘Gypsy’

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BetteBack September 25, 1993: Bette Midler Sings “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” For Jules Styne At ETD

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