Oh, to be a fly on the wall - #943 in a series...

Romy Schneider and Sophia Loren

Jayne Mansfield, Liza Minnelli, Mitzi Gaynor, Kaye Ballard

Edith Piaf reading the palm of Django Reinhardt

Ramon Novarro and Robert Montgomery

Divine makes her thoughts known on the Trumps

I made my own lane

I made my own lane. I worked and still work as hard as anyone can, and I love each person who supported me and cares about me for me. I love performing. I still take dance lessons, and when I sing to people in the theatre, I’m not giving a performance - I’m sharing my love with each individual person. I’m asking, “This is how I feel. How ’bout you?” My work is real.

No! She's not dead...

Our Patron Saint of Pizzazz Liza's very much still with us - as this fabulous interview/conversation with her long-time friend Michael Feinstein confirms:

• Liza Minnelli in Interview Magazine, Fall 2024 edition

Liza!

...it's her world, we merely inhabit it.

Many happy returns, Miss Liza May Minnelli (born 12th March 1946)!

Life is a cabaret, old chum

My all-time favourite film Cabaret - which, had it not been for The Godfather, would have swept the board at The Oscars; as it is it won eight (including Best Director for Bob Fosse, Best Actress for Liza Minnelli and Best Supporting Actor for Joel Grey), and holds the record for most awards won by a film which did not win the Academy Award for Best Picture - received its UK premiere FIFTY YEARS AGO today...

All about Cabaret at Filmsite

Feathers, fur, fouff and faff

Claire Trevor (8th March 1910 - 8th April 2000)

Zarah Leander (15th March 1907 – 23rd June 1981)

Liza Minnelli (born 12th March 1946)

Clare Boothe Luce (10th March 1903 – 9th October 1987)

Nina Hagen (born 11th March 1955)

Jessie Matthews (11th March 1907 – 19th August 1981)

Dorothy Gish (11th March 1898 – 4th June 1968)

Googie Withers (12th March 1917 – 15th July 2011)

Clare Grogan (60 on 17th March)

Eleanor Bron (born 14th March 1938)

Keely Smith (9th March 1928 – 16th December 2017)

"There she goes, Lisa Minooli!"

"Reality is something you rise above."

"I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody."

"Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream."

"Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond."

"I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back..."

The incomparable, the unique, the utterly fantabulosa Miss Liza Minnelli is 75 years old today!

All hail our beloved Patron Saint of Pizzazz...

Liza Minnelli - Liza with a Z

Liza May Minnelli (born 12th March 1946)

A gala tribute event A Love Letter to Liza Minnelli: 75th All-Star Birthday Tribute Celebration - featuring such luminaries as Joel Grey, Michael York, Michael Feinstein, Lily Tomlin, Billy Stritch, Chita Rivera, Dame Joan Collins, Lorna Luft, Lea DeLaria, Ute Lemper, Sandra Bernhard and many more - will be live streamed tonight, and viewings are available until Sunday - book tickets here.

I think today should be...

...a "Say Something Hat" Day! Don't you..?


Catharina "Nina" Hagen (born 11th March 1955)


Canzetta Maria "Candi" Staton (born 13th March 1940)


Sharon Vonne Stone (born 10th March 1958)


Dana Elaine Owens aka Queen Latifah (born 18th March 1970)


Jessie Margaret Matthews OBE (11th March 1907 – 19th August 1981)


Liza May Minnelli (born 12th March 1946)