Liza Minnelli
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Los Angeles, California
esilLiza Minnelli grew up on the front lines of entertainment; her mother was the great singer/actress Judy Garland and her father the director/designer Vincente Minnelli. Minnelli made her first film appearance, uncredited, as Garlands daughter (with co-star Van Johnson) in the last few seconds of In the Good Old Summertime (1948). When Garland shared a 1964 concert engagement at the London Palladium with her 18-year-old daughter, Minnelli's performing career was kickstarted. A year later, Minnelli had won the Tony Award for Flora, the Red Menace -- the youngest performer ever to do so -- and by 1974 had won an Oscar as well, for her performance as Sally Bowles in Bob Fosse's dramatic musical Cabaret. Several of her TV specials, particularly Liza with a Z, received critical acclaim. Despite her auspicious beginnings in show business, her film career after Cabaret has been less than notable, with the possible exception of Arthur (1981) with Dudley Moore and Sir John Gielgud. Married four times, first to cabaret artist Peter Allen, then to Jack Haley, Jr., then to artist Mark Gero, and later to David Gest, for a time she was also linked romantically with Desi Arnaz, Jr., and Peter Sellers. In 1997 Minelli returned to Broadway as the lead in Victor/Victoria, though three short years later she was stricked with a case of viral encephalatis that threatened to leave her wheelchair-bound and unable to sing. Incredibly, following an appearance on the Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary concert (produced by Gest), she was back on stage, and in 2002 she drew rave reviews for her nostalgic concert special Liza's Back. Always charming in front of the camera, the boyant actress/comedienne could next be seen as Buster's much-older girlfriend Lucille Austero in the shortlived, critically acclaimed, series Arrested Development. Her concert appearances continue to sell out, at which she often performs the music of John Kander and Fred Ebb, who wrote the score for Cabaret.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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77% | Halston |
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— | 2019 |
33% | Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston |
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$4.5k | 2012 |
16% | Sex and the City 2 |
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$95.4M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Liza Minnelli: Liza's at the Palace |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Liza's at the Palace |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1970s |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story |
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— | 2008 |
94% | Chris & Don |
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$0.2M | 2007 |
23% | The Oh in Ohio |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Judy Garland - Judy Duets |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | The Jacksons: America's First Family of Music |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Nine Innings from Ground Zero |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Peter Allen: The Boy from Oz |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Jackie's Back |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The West Side Waltz |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Bowl |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Parallel Lives |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Aznavour & Minnelli: Live at Palais Des Congres Des Paris |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Liza Minnelli - Live From Radio City Music Hall |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Stepping Out |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Carnegie Hall at 100: A Place of Dreams |
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— | 1991 |
13% | Arthur 2: On the Rocks |
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— | 1988 |
15% | Rent-A-Cop |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | That's Dancing! |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | A Time to Live |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Judy Garland: The Concert Years |
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— | 1985 |
83% | The Muppets Take Manhattan |
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— | 1984 |
89% | The King of Comedy |
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— | 1983 |
88% | Arthur |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Liza in Concert |
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— | 1981 |
63% | New York, New York |
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— | 1977 |
63% | A Matter of Time |
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— | 1976 |
80% | Silent Movie |
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— | 1976 |
0% | Lucky Lady |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Journey Back to Oz |
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— | 1974 |
100% | That's Entertainment |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Liza with a 'Z' |
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— | 1972 |
93% | Cabaret |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Liza With A Z |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Liza With a "Z" |
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— | 1972 |
22% | Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon |
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— | 1970 |
88% | The Sterile Cuckoo (Pookie) |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Charlie Bubbles |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Judy Garland: Live at the London Palladium |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | Judy And Liza At The Palladium |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | Judy Garland Christmas Show |
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— | 1963 |
64% | In the Good Old Summertime |
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— | 1949 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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74% |
Arrested Development
2003-2019
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No Score Yet |
Michael Feinstein's American Songbook
2010-2013
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67% |
Smash
2012-2013
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No Score Yet |
Good Afternoon America
2012
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Apprentice
2004-2017
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72% |
Drop Dead Diva
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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No Score Yet |
Great Performances
2000
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43% |
The Academy Awards
1978-2020
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100% |
The Muppet Show
1976-1981
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No Score Yet |
In Performance at the White House
2010-2016
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Quotes from Liza Minnelli's Characters
Sally Bowles: | Come to the Cabaret old bum, come the the Cabaret. |
Sally Bowles: | Are you AC/DC Brian? The economy is in shambles, let's be bourgeoisie and decadent. |
Sally Bowles: | My beloved wife, remember the filthy moments we had before marriage! |
Sally Bowles: | I saw a film about syphilis. Ugh! It was too awful. I couldn't let a man touch me for two weeks. |
Sally Bowles: | Bumsen. |
Brian Roberts: | THAT would be the German word you pronounce perfectly (bumsen). |
Sally Bowles: | Well I ought to. I spent the entire afternoon bumsening like mad with this ghastly old producer who promised to get me a contract. |
Brian Roberts: | Screw Maximillian! |
Sally Bowles: | I do. |
Brian Roberts: | So do I. |
Sally Bowles: | You two bastards! |
Brian Roberts: | Two? Two? Shouldn't that be three? |
Sally Bowles: | Divine decadence |