The Divine Miss M isn't in the prime of her career anymore, but the Grammy-winning chanteuse and actress is keeping busy greening up the city.

A nice Jewish girl raised in Hawaii, Midler landed on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof in the mid-60s; she later took a gig as a singer at gay bathhouse, The Continental Baths, in the basement of the Ansonia. There she drew in the crowds who flocked to see her cabaret shtick. Midler worked on Broadway throughout the '70s and went on to release an album (The Divine Miss M) before landing her first film role. Over the next decade, she appeared in a slew of iconic '80s comedies and the ultimate chick flick Beaches, which introduced us to Midler's weepy classic, "Wind Beneath My Wings."

Midler managed to stay commercially viable in the coming years-she was famously the final guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in 1992-and helped the glorious 1996 flick First Wives Club score $105 million in box office returns. Midler has soldiered on and maintained a recording, film, and stage career with her stardom intact, if a bit weathered by age, like a well-received Christmas album called Cool Yule, a Vegas stint, and producing Priscilla Queen of the Desert on Broadway.

Midler has been with commodities trader-turned-obscure performance artist Martin von Haselberg since 1984 and the pair have a daugher. Midler is also the founder of the New York Restoration Project, which fixes up and protects community gardens in under-privileged neighborhoods. [Image via Getty]