Movie
1979
The Rose is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Mark Rydell, and starring Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus, and David Keith. Loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin, the film follows self-destructive rock star Mary Rose Foster in the late 1960s, who struggles to cope with the pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager Rudge…
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Most of the audience associate Bette Midler with light-hearted comedies, but the most important role of her acting career – the one that actually started it and was later recognised with a Golden Globe – belonged to a quite different genre, as it was actually inspired by one of the most tragic chapters in the history of American popular music. That film was *The Rose*, a 1979 musical quasi-biopic directed by Mark Ry…More
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