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Connecting Bette Midler and Raquel Welch
Bette Midler
American singer, songwriter, actress, and comedian
In December, it was announced that Midler would portray actress Mae West in an HBO movie biopic, written by Harvey Fierstein and directed by William Friedkin.
Mae West
American actress (1893–1980)
After a 27-year absence from motion pictures, West appeared as Leticia Van Allen in Gore Vidal's '' Myra Breckinridge'' (1970) with Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett, and Tom Selleck in a small part.
Bette Midler
American singer, songwriter, actress, and comedian
The third feature film adaptation of the 1920 novel ''Stella Dallas'' by Olive Higgins Prouty, Midler portrayed a vulgar single mother living in Watertown, New York, who, determined to give her daughter all the opportunities she never had, ultimately makes a selfless sacrifice to ensure her happiness.
Olive Higgins Prouty
American writer
Produced by the Selwyns in New Haven (No specific location listed - No date) starring Mrs. Leslie Carter (Caroline Louise Dudley - 'The American Sarah Bernhardt'), Edward G. Robinson, Kay Harrison, Albert Marsh, Philip Earle, Clara Moores, Ruth Darby, Beatrice Moreland, Almeda Fowler, Guy Milham, etc.
Edward G. Robinson
His later appearances included ''The Biggest Bundle of Them All'' (1968) starring Robert Wagner and Raquel Welch, '' Never a Dull Moment'' (1968) with Dick Van Dyke, ''It's Your Move'' (1968), ''Mackenna's Gold'' (1969) starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif, and the ''Night Gallery'' episode “The Messiah on Mott Street" (1971).
Bette Midler
American singer, songwriter, actress, and comedian
She landed her first professional onstage role in Tom Eyen's off-off-Broadway plays in 1965, ''Miss Nefertiti Regrets'' and ''Cinderella Revisited'', a children's play by day and an adult show by night.
Tom Eyen
According to ''The New York Times'', "Eyen was called the Neil Simon of Off-Off-Broadway at one point when he had four plays running simultaneously." In 1973, Eyen co-wrote the book for and directed one of Broadway's most notorious flops, the Paul Jabaradisco musical '' Rachael Lily Rosenbloom (And Don't You Ever Forget It)'', which closed after seven previews.
Paul Jabara
American songwriter
The original Weather Girls' recording of "It's Raining Men" was included on Jabara's 1983 album '' Paul Jabara & Friends'', which included one of the early recordings by then 19-year-old Whitney Houston on "Eternal Love" (previously recorded by Stephanie Mills) as well as a Jabara/Diana Ross co-write "Ladies Hot Line." Other songs Jabara had covered by major artists include "Hope" by Billy Preston (1981), "Two Lovers" by Julio Iglesias (1984) and "This Girl's Back in Town" by Raquel Welch (1987).
Bette Midler
American singer, songwriter, actress, and comedian
In 2013, Midler performed on Broadway for the first time in more than 30 years in a play about the Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers.
The play, titled ''I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers'' and dramatized by John Logan, opened on April 24, 2013, at the Booth Theatre.
Sue Mengers
American talent agent
Mengers contacted the producer, who commissioned a specially written episode for Harris.{{rp|43}} Mengers represented Anthony Perkins, who had not worked in the United States since '' Psycho'' (1960).
Anthony Perkins
The characters were influenced by people Perkins and Sondheim knew in real life: Tom Parkman, a closeted homosexual who's married to another participant in the games, was based on Perkins himself; Phillip Dexter, a fledging film director once popular in his heyday but now resigned to directing television commercials, was based on Perkins's close friend and frequent collaborator, Orson Welles; Christine, an obnoxious woman who was once an informer to the House of Un-American Actives, was based on film agent Sue Mengers; and Alice and Anthony Wood were based on Raquel Welch (who played Alice) and her then-husband Patrick Curtis.
