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Name: Divine Madness
Released: 1980-9-26
Cast: Bette Midler, Jocelyn Brown, Ula Hedwig, Diva Gray, Irving Sudrow

Divine Madness

R
1h 35m
1980

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She makes a grand musical entrance on stage atop a silver salver, carried by three virile attendants. For the next two hours of her live concert, outrageous superstar Bette Midler sings...struts...weeps...laughs...minces...and woos the audience. She plays with her pals, the Harlettes...throws out one-liners like bridal bouquets...refuses to tell tacky Sophie Tucker stories, then tells them...becomes Delores DeLago the Toast of Chicago, America's most willing—if tasteless--lounge entertainer...bares her soul in mid-song...and shares with absolutely everyone her absolutely Divine Madness.

Director:

Michael Ritchie

Producer:

Michael Ritchie, Howard Jeffrey

Writer:

Jerry Blatt, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch

Cast:

Bette Midler, Jocelyn Brown, Ula Hedwig, Diva Gray, Irving Sudrow

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

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Reviews

Gay Community News (Boston)

Walta Borawski

A performance of joy.

The first great concert film of the '80s, Divine Madness finds energetic dynamo Bette Midler holding court in Pasadena, Calif., and serving up everything an audience could want...

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Philadelphia Gay News

Larry Vitacco

From her opening number, "Big Noise from Winnetka" to her triumphant grand finale, "I Shall Be Released," there is nary a dull moment.

Such intense emotionalism is a departure for the Camp Queen, but a real beginning for the New Woman, Bette Midler.

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