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Liza Might Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and singer. She is the girl of legendary entertainer Judy Garland and her second married man, acclaimed Italian-American film director Vincente Minnelli.

Early Career

Minnelli's number one film appearance was at a age of trine in the final scene of the 1949 musical In the Good Old Summertime, starring her mother & Van Johnson.

Mugil liza began performing at age of Sixteen, within 1963, on Broadway, in the revival of the musical Right Foot Forward, for which she received full notices. A next month, her mother invited her to perform by using her at a London Palladium.

A audience loved her, & her musical career was innate. She returned to Broadway at Nineteen, & won the 1965 Tony Award for Flora the Red Menace. She also received Tony Awards for The Work around 1978 and a favorite Tony around 1974. She was nominated within 1984 for The Rink but lost to her costar Chita Rivera.

Further success and awards
A film The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) garnered her her first Academy Award nomination. Inside 1972, she won a Oscar for Better Actress for her role when "Sally Bowles" around Cabaret, along with Joel Grey who won an Oscar reprising his role in the movie that he got played in the Broadway musical comedy (that of the creepy "Emcee").

Minnelli has a distinction of existence a lone Academy Award winner whose parents are both Academy Award winners.

Last she has appeared as a revenant guest star on the critically acclaimed TV sitcom Arrested Development as sexually and socially retarded Buster Bluth's lover. She has besides won an Emmy Award for the 1972 TV special Mugil lizthe using a Z.

Minnelli received the 1990 Grammy Legend Award. She received Golden Globe Awards for Cabaret and for the TV movie The Instance to Survive.

Minnelli, such as her mother, is known for her right vocal style, as within her trademark songs, "Cabaret" & "Theme from New York, New York." (Minnelli's original preceded Frank Sinatra's successful cover version, for his "Trilogy" album, by two years.)

Marriages
Rather her mother, Minnelli has experienced many marriages, & has besides been linked romantically to director Martin Scorsese, Peter Sellers, pianist Billy Stritch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and actor Desi Arnaz Jr. Her hubby use at times been:

  • Peter Allen (real title Peter Allen Woolnough) (March 3, 1967 – 1972). Australian-born Allen, world health organization died of complications from either AIDS in 1992, was Judy Garland's protegé in the mid 1960s.
  • Jack Haley, Jr., (September 15, 1974 – 1979), a producer & director. His father, Jack Haley, was Judy Garland's co-star in The Wizard of Oz.
  • Mark Gero (December 4, 1979 – 1992), a sculptor & stager.
  • David Gest (March 16, 2002 – July 25, 2003), a concert promoter. the few proclaimed to the click around late 2002 that it would become adopting a 3-month-old girl, to exist as known as Serena Gest. It announced their divorcement around 2003.

    Filmography
    In the Good Old Summertime (1949) Charlie Bubbles (1967) The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970) Cabaret (1972) Just One More Time (1974) (short subject) ''That's Entertainment! (1974) (narrator) Journey Back to Oz (1974) (voice) Lucky Lady (1975) Silent Movie (1976) (Cameo) A Matter of Time (1976) New York, New York (1977) Arthur (1981) The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) (Cameo) Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987) (voice) Rent-a-Cop (1988) Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) Stepping Out (1991) A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary) Unzipped (1995) (documentary) The OH in Ohio (2005)

    Music

    Albums

    Best Foot Forward (1963) (Original Cast Recording) Liza! Liza! (1963) Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli Live at the London Palladium (1964) Flora, the Red Menace (1965) (Original Cast Recording) It Amazes Me (1965) There Is a Time (1966) The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood (1966) (soundtrack) Liza Minnelli (1968) Come Saturday Morning (1970) New Feelin' (1970) Liza Minnelli: Live at the Olympia in Paris (1972) Cabaret (1972) (soundtrack) Liza with a 'Z' (1972) (soundtrack) The Singer (1973) Liza Minnelli: Live at the Winter Garden (1974) Lucky Lady (1975) (soundtrack) A Matter of Time (1976) (soundtrack) New York, New York (1977) (soundtrack) Tropical Nights (1977) The Act (1978) (Original Cast Recording) The Rink (1984) (Original Cast Recording) Liza Minnelli: Live at Carnegie Hall (1987) Results (1989) Stepping Out (1991) (soundtrack) Liza: Live from Radio City Music Hall (1992) Paris (1995) (w/ Charles Aznavour) The Life: A New Musical (1996) Gently (1996) Minnelli on Minnelli: Live at the Palace (1999) Liza's Back'' (2002)

    Singles "Losing My Mind" (UK #6, August 1989) "Don't Drop Bombs" (UK #46, October 1989) "So Sorry, I Said" (UK #62, November 1989) "Love Pains" (UK #41, March 1990)

    TV Work
    The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood (1965) ''Liza with a 'Z' (1972) A Time to Live (1985) Sam Found Out: A Triple Play (1988) Parallel Lives (1994) The West Side Waltz (1995) Jackie's Back! (1999) (Cameo) Arrested Development (2003-present)

    Stage Appearances
    Best Foot Forward (1963) (Off-Broadway) Flora, the Red Menace (1965) Liza (1974) Chicago (1975) (replacement for Gwen Verdon from Aug-Sep. 1975) The Act (1978) The Rink (1984) Victor/Victoria (1995) (replacement for Julie Andrews in 1997) Minnelli on Minnelli'' (1999)

    • Liza Minnelli TV Schedule
    TV-Now's monthly schedule of Liza appearances on TV. Stock up on tapes and get the popcorn ready.

    Imagining Liza: Memoir of a Fan
    A book for Liza Minnelli fans and anyone who has dreamed of meeting their favorite entertainer. Information and reviews.

    Liza May Minnelli Club
    Yahoo! fan club.

    The Liza Minnelli Home Page
    Schedule information and reviews (from newspapers and by the web-master).

    Liza's Back
    Contains interview, reviews, pictures, and news about the singer and actress.

    Lovin' Liza Minnelli
    Features information about Liza, the winner of three Tony Awards, an Oscar, a golden Globe and an Emmy. Provides news about her concerts, performances, stage, television, and film.

    Liza Minnelli News: Topix.net
    News about Liza Minnelli continually updated from around the net.
    Arts: Movies: Awards: Academy Awards: Recipients: Best Actress
    Arts: Movies: Filmmaking: Directing: Directors: M: Minnelli, Vincente
    Arts: Movies: Titles: C: Cabaret - 1972
    Arts: Movies: Titles: N: New York, New York
    Arts: Music: Styles: V: Vocal: Traditional Pop
    Arts: Music: Women in Music
    Arts: People: G: Garland, Judy
    Arts: People: L: Luft, Lorna
    Regional: North America: United States: Arts and Entertainment: Music




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