Bette Midler reveals her dad 'never liked' the idea of her becoming a star
Bette Midler's dad "never liked" the idea of her becoming a star. The 78-year-old actress has had an enormous career on stage and screen over the years and while she was determined to make it, she revealed that her father Fred - who worked at a Navy base in Hawaii as a painter and also painted houses - never really understood the world of showbusiness. Speaking on 'The Today Show', she explained: "I never said 'I'm gonna try', I said 'I'm going to do this'. For me, there was nothing else. I couldn't do anything else.This was what I could do and I loved it with all my heart. And I was going to ...