Liza Minnelli

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Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer.

She is best known for her energetic stage presence and her ferocious mezzo-soprano singing voice, as well as her Academy Award-winning appearance in Cabaret (1972).

She is the granddaughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli's daughter. Minnelli began performing in New York City in 1961, where she began her career as a musical theatre actress, nightclub performer, and traditional pop music performer.

She appeared onstage in the 1963 Off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward, receiving a Tony Award for her role in Flora the Red Menace, which marked the beginning of her lifelong friendship with John Kander and Fred Ebb.

They wrote, produced or supervised many of Minnelli's upcoming stage performances and TV shows, as well as assisting in the development of a stylized survivor's stage persona ("New York, New York"), and "Maybe This Time" ("Madame, New York").

This persona and her style of performance contributed to Minnelli's international fame, including her appearances on stage and film, including her appearance in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)—particularly Robert Cuckoo (1969)—Minnelli rose to international prominence, appearing in Cabaret and Emmy Award-winning TV series Liza (1972).

The majority of her following films, including Lucky Lady (1975), New York, New York (1977), Rent-a-Cop (1988) and Stepping Out (1991), were panned by the critics and bombed at the box office, and she had no more major movie hits than Arthur (1981).

She appeared on Broadway on several occasions, including The Act (1977), The Rink (1984), and Liza's at The Palace (2008), although she has mainly concentrated on music hall and nightclub appearances since the late 1970s.

Her concert appearances at Carnegie Hall in 1979 and 1987, as well as at Radio City Music Hall in 1991 and 1992, have been voted among her most popular programs.

She toured with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. in Frank, Liza & Sammy: The Ultimate Event, 1990 to 1990. Minnelli's early 1960s pop hits were intended to appeal to a young audience, and her albums from 1968 to 1977 contained a majority of the current singer-songwriter repertoire.

In 1989, she ventured into the naughty pop scene by collaborating with the Pet Shop Boys on the album's results.

Minnelli returned to the concert stage in 2002 with Liza's Back, an acclaimed guest star in Arrested Development from 2003 to 2013.

She has largely stifled concert tours in favour of small retrospective performances since the 2010s.

Early life

Minnelli was born on March 12, 1946, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles' Beverly Boulevard. She is the granddaughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli's daughter. Her parents named her after Ira Gershwin's song "Liza (All the Clouds Will Roll Away)" in the United States. Lorna, Minnelli's half-sister, and Joey, Joey's half-brother, both from Garland's marriage to Sid Luft. Christiane Nina Minnelli, nicknamed Tina Nina), is her father's second marriage's daughter. Kay Thompson and Ira Gershwin were Minnelli's godparents.

Minnelli's first acting experience on film was in the final scene of the musical In the Good Old Summertime (1949); the film stars Garland and Van Johnson. In 1961, she attended High School of Performing Arts and later, Chadwick School in New York City.

Personal life

Minnelli has suffered from alcoholism for a long time and has been addicted to prescription drugs, which resulted from a Valium prescription after her mother died. Andy Warhol, who in a 1978 diary entry, recalled Minnelli's arrival at Halston's house and begged the host to "give me every drug you've got." Minnelli, alongside Warhol and Bianca Jagger, made frequent appearances at New York City nightclubs in the late 1970s, including Studio 54. Minnelli's 1984 film The Rink vs. Betty Ford Clinic was her first visit to the Betty Ford Clinic.

Minnelli has said she is an Episcopalian.

Minnelli's friendships include the musician Adam Ant, who aided her in determining what to wear when he was delivered to Queen Elizabeth II after his 1981 Royal Variety Performance, which included his band Adam and the Ants. Ant in turn consulted Minnelli on the track "Crackpot History and the Right to Lie," his 1982 solo album Friend or Foe.

Minnelli and her then-boyfriend Peter Allen were invited to the opening of the Compass Centre in Bankstown, Sydney, during an Australian visit in 1964. The King and Queen of the Compass Centre were crowned.

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On September 15, 1974, Allen Minnelli married Jack Haley Jr., a producer and director, after his divorce from Allen. Jack Haley, Garland's co-star in The Wizard of Oz, was his father. In April 1979, the two were divorced.

Minnelli was married to Mark Gero, a sculptor and stage manager, from December 4, 1979 to their divorce in January 1992.

Minnelli was married to David Gest, a concert promoter from March 16, 2002, before their divorce in July 2003 and their divorce in April 2007. Gest argued that Minnelli beat him in alcohol-induced rages during their marriage in a 2003 lawsuit.

Minnelli also had acquaintances with Rock Brynner (son of Yul Brynner), Desi Arnaz, Jr., and Martin Scorsese. Aznavour characterized her close friendship with French pop singer Charles Aznavour as "more than acquaintances and less than lovers."

Minnelli has no children; one pregnancy left her with a hiatal hernia as a result of the medical procedures taken to try to save the baby.

Minnelli has worked with many charities and causes throughout her lifetime. She served on the board of directors of The Institutes for Human Potential (IAHP), a non-profit educational group that welcomes children to the field of child brain development. Minnelli said she was the person who told Elizabeth Taylor about HIV/AIDS when discussing their mutual friend Rock Hudson in a 2006 interview with Randy Rice at Broadwayworld.com. In addition, she has contributed a lot of time to amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, which was co-founded by Taylor.

"AmfAR is important to me because I've lost so many people that I didn't know [to AIDS]," she said in a Palm Springs Life interview in 2007. She performed "The Day After That" on Kander & Ebb in 1994 and donated the proceeds to AIDS research. In the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, she performed the song in front of thousands of people in Central Park the previous year.

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Career

Minnelli, an apprentice at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis, Massachusetts, served during 1961. She appeared in the chorus of Flower Drum Song and appeared in Take Me Along as Muriel. She first appeared in an Off-Broadway revival of the musical Best Foot Forward in 1963, for which she received the Theatre World Award.

In concert at the London Palladium next year, her mother invited her to perform with her. Both concerts were recorded and released as an album. She attended Scarsdale High School for a year, appearing in a version of The Diary of Anne Frank, which later went to Israel on tour. She returned to Broadway at 19 years old and received her first Tony Award as a leading actress for Flora the Red Menace. It was the first time she worked with John Kander and Fred Ebb.

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The Capitol albums Liza!

Liza Minnelli (1968), 1968-1968) for A&M Records (both 1970) had her album Liza Minnelli (1968). On Columbia Records, she released The Singer (1973) and Tropical Nights (1977).

Minnelli collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys on Results, an electronic dance-style album, in 1989. The release debuted in the United Kingdom and charted in the United States, spawning four singles: "Losing My Mind"; "So Sorry, I Said"; and "Love Pains"; the top ten in the UK and charted in the United States. Later this year, she performed "Losing My Mind" live at the Grammy Awards ceremony before being given a Grammy Legend Award (the first Grammy Legend Awards were given to Minnelli, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Smokey Robinson, and Willie Nelson). She was one of the only 16 people to win an Emmy, Grammy, Tony Award, and Academy Award, among others, on a list that includes composer Richard Rodgers, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, and others.

Minnelli appeared at the tribute concert for her late friend Freddie Mercury, performing "We Are the Champions" with the surviving members of the rock band Queen at Wembley Stadium in London in April 1992. Minnelli also released Gently, a studio album from 1996. It was a compilation of jazz standards and included contemporary songs such as the front of Does He Love You, which she performed as a duet with Donna Summer. This album earned her a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.

Minnelli appeared on My Chemical Romance's album The Black Parade in 2006, providing backing vocals and performing a solo part with Gerard Way on the track "Mama." Minnelli was nominated in 2009 for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her studio film Liza's at the Palace... based on her hit Broadway show. On September 21, 2010, Minnelli launched Confessions, a Decca Records record.

In the final shot of her mother's film In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Minnelli's first appearance on film is as the baby. Although Robert Finney's first film role as producer and actress in Charlie Bubbles (1967), Albert Finney's only film role, she did voiceover work for the animated film Journey Back to Oz, a sequel to The Wizard of Oz, four years ago. Minnelli was the voice of Dorothy (a character played in the earlier film by her mother Judy Garland) in what would have been her first credited film role if it had been released in 1964 as planned, with the filming process in the United Kingdom eventually ending in 1972.

Pookie Adams, Alan J. Pakula's first feature film, appeared in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), a needy, eccentric teenager. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970), directed by Otto Preminger, she played another eccentric character. A nude scene in the film, shot in a Massachusetts cemetery, resulted in a misdemeanor lawsuit by the families of those buried there, and a "Liza Minnelli Bill" was introduced the following year to fine filming in Massachusetts cemeteries without authorization.

In the film version of Cabaret (1972), Minnelli appeared in her best-known film role, Sally Bowles. Louise Glaum and Louise Brooks' photographs of actresses Louise Glaum and Louise Brooks, as well as the dark-haired women of the period in which the film was shot, she said one of the things she did not prepare was to research actresses Louise Glaum and Louise Brooks and the older women of the time in which the film was shot. Minnelli received the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her appearance, as well as a Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Sant Jordi Award and the David Di Donatello Prize for Best Foreign Actress.

With a 'Z' matched Liza following the success of Cabaret, Bob Fosse and Minnelli teamed up for Liza. A television special called A Concert for Television. The program aired two times on television but was not seen again until a DVD version was released in 2006.

Minnelli appeared in three costly flops in three years, with Variety predicting that she was the number one choice for box office poison by 1978. Lucky Lady (1975), then she appeared in A Matter of Time (1976), co-starring Ingrid Bergman and then New York, New York (1977), which made Minnelli her best known signature tune. Frank Sinatra, who released a cover version of his Trilogy: Present Future Future), she appeared on stage with her duets on stage (for his Trilogy: Past Present Future album).

Minnelli made fewer film appearances from then on, but her new film, Arthur (1981), in which she starred as Dudley Moore's love interest, was a huge success. On the Rocks (1988) and Stepping Out (1991), a musical comedy drama, she returned to film for Rent-A-Cop and Arthur 2: On the Rocks (both 1988) and Stepping Out (1991). She appeared in The Oh in Ohio in 2006, but there was only a limited number of actresses in theaters.

Minnelli appeared on Art Linkletter's show as a child guest on his show and performed and danced with Gene Kelly on his first television special in 1959. She appeared in one episode of Ben Casey and was a regular participant on talk shows of the day, including numerous appearances on shows hosted by Jack Paar, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Joe Franklin, Dinah Shore, and Johnny Carson. She appeared on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, as well as other variety shows, such as The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace, and The Judy Garland Show, during the 1960s.

Minnie appeared in Craig Stevens' short-lived series Mr. Broadway in 1964 as Minnie for her first television dramatic role.

Liza Minnelli Live from Radio City Music Hall, produced by Phil Ramone and Chris Giordano, aired in December 1992. The show received six Emmy nominations and was named Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics by Fred Ebb and John Kander.

Minnelli made guest appearances on shows such as Arrested Development, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Drop Dead Diva later in her career. She appeared on the Ruby Wax, Graham Norton, and Jonathan Ross shows in the United Kingdom, and in October 2006, she appeared in a comedy skit on Charlotte Church's show and was on Michael Parkinson's show.

Liza's at the Palace, a television program broadcast in Las Vegas from September 30 to October 1, 2009, was broadcast on American Public Television. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the taping's executive producers, were both involved in the 2005 revival of 1972's Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning Liza with a Z.

Minnelli returned to Broadway in 1997, taking over the character in the musical Victory/Victoria, replacing Julie Andrews. "She every stage appearance is regarded as a triumph of show-business stamina over psychic fragility," Mark Brantley wrote in his review. She asks for love, but it's shame not to respond."

Doctors expected Minnelli to die the rest of her life in a wheelchair and possibly not be able to speak again after a serious case of viral encephalitis in 2000. However, she continued to recover after taking vocal and dancing lessons regularly (especially with Sam Harris, Luigi Faccuito, Ron Lewis, and Angela Bacari). Rosie O'Donnell Showcase on September 19, 2001, she appeared on a September 19, 2001 episode of The Rosie O'Donnell Show, which was also Rosie's first show back after the September 11 attacks. Despite having had vocal surgery just before, she performed her signature song, "New York, New York," and received a ovation. In 2001, she performed "You Are Not Alone" and the televised "You Are Not Alone" at the Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special Concert produced by future husband David Gest, and she returned to the stage in 2001 when she was asked by longtime friend Michael Jackson to appear at Madison Square Garden in New York City, where she performed "Never Land" and the televised "You Are Not Alone." "I am as stable as a table," Minnelli told reporters.

Gest was so impressed with Minnelli's stamina and ability to ston audiences that he made her appear in Liza's Back in Spring 2002, attracting rave reviews in London and New York City. The tour concluded Act 1 with a tribute to her mother: following years of waning support for her to perform Garland's signature song "Over The Rainbow," she dominated the audience, she brought her mother's anthem to a rousing applause.

Lucille Austero (also known as "Lucille 2"), the sister of both Buster Bluth and Buster's brother Gob from 2003 to 2005, appeared on Emmy Award-winning TV sitcom Arrested Development as Lucille Austero (also known as "Lucille 2"), the lover of both Buster Bluth and Buster's brother Gob's sexually and socially awkward Buster Bluth and Buster's brother Gob. Minnelli appeared in the role for the show's fourth season in 2013.

Minnelli made her first appearance in the United Kingdom after a long absence, appearing as a special guest at the annual Royal Variety Performance on December 14, 2004. The BBC broadcast the show, and Prince of Wales Charles, Prince of Wales, attended it. It was staged at the London Coliseum, marking both its centennial year and the theatre's re-opening after a lengthy four-year renovation.

In September 2006, Minnelli appeared in "Masquerade: Criminal Intent," a Halloween-themed film that was broadcast on October 31, 2006.

Minnelli also performed guest vocals on My Chemical Romance's 2006 concept album The Black Parade, which features "Mother War," a grim interpretation of the main character's mother in the song "Mama."

In a new solo performance at the Palace Theatre called Liza's at The Palace..., Minnelli performed in a new solo performance at the Palace Theatre from December 3, 2008, to January 4, 2009. She undertook a sequence of numbers devised by Kay Thompson in her second act.

Minnelli appeared in Hugh Jackman's Australian musical The Boy From Oz (a biography of her first husband). Stephanie J. portrayed her in the show's Broadway production. Blocks are located in the bottom of the page. Minnelli toured Australia in October 2009 and appeared on Australian Idol as a mentor and guest judge. Minnelli made a cameo appearance in the April 2010 release of Sex and the City 2, in which she covered Beyoncé's hit "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" and Cole Porter's "Ever Time We Say Goodbye" and Beyoncé's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye). She made a cameback in The Apprentice in December 2010 [2].

Minnelli also released an album of a few American standards "unplugged" with long-time collaborator Billy Stritch, revealing a more sultrier and more interpretive side to her artistry in 2010. The songs are believed to have been recorded several years ago and then released as the album Confessions.

Minnelli headlined Hampton Court Palace Festival on June 14, 2012. Minnelli appeared on Cher's Dressed to Kill Tour in Brooklyn on May 9, 2014, with Cyndi Lauper and Rosie O'Donnell performing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."

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