Bernadette Peters is one of our greatest musical stars of the past 30 years, as well as being a great actress. She was in Sondheim's Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George, and she was in Steve Martin's film the Jerk and was also in the film version of Pennies from Heaven. She is best known to later generations as the voice of Rita the Cat in the Animaniacs cartoons here in the States. She was also wonderful as the Countess Sophie in the film Impromptu with Hugh Grant and Judy Davis. She's one of my favorite performers, because she can be funny one minute and break your heart with sadness the next. And she's absolutely gorgeous in a very 30's sort of way. If you Google her, you'll see what I mean.
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Date: 2007-10-12 09:08 am (UTC)