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Release year: 1980

Storyline

Movie comedy queen Bette Midler reigns supreme in this rocking, rolling concert movie bash. The Divine Miss M at her trashiest, flashiest, heavenly best!

Top credits

Directors

Michael Ritchie

Writers

Cast

Bette Midler — Self, The Divine Miss M
Jocelyn Brown — The Harlettes
Ula Hedwig — The Harlettes
Diva Gray — The Harlettes

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Did you know

• The film was shot from three separate concerts filmed over three consecutive nights at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California, USA between 13-15 February 1980. Shooting of a fourth concert on Saturday 16th February 1980 was for conducting inserts and pick-up shots and was closed to the public.

• The number of songs performed in this concert movie totaled sixteen. The film's soundtrack only included about just over half of the songs featured in this concert movie and none of the comic routines. The songs were edited and re-recorded in the studio for the soundtrack. The "Divine Madness" soundtrack album peaked at No. #34 on the Billboard's Album Chart. When the album was digitally remastered and reissued on CD by Warner Music & Atlantic Records in 1995 it still did not include any bonus tracks or the songs that were left out of the vinyl release. The songs "Shiver Me Timbers" and "Rainbow Sleeve" were removed from the Home Video Version (and are not in the DVD either) which at 87 minutes runs about about 7 minutes shorter than the theatrical cut (94 minutes).

• The 94-minute theatrical cut of this film was edited from around 185 hours of footage equating to about one million feet of exposed film.