What is the appeal of Liza Minelli?

Her shylabbles.

Gosh, I hope someone posts hilarious shhh jokes to this. They're a riot!

Judy was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

Liza could both sing and act. She was hysterical in Author, won a Broadway Toney for Cabaret ( a musical) . Ummmm,, I know there's more! But anyway, she at least acted and sang in those.

Toney?

She had pizzazz.

What’s not to like about her?

And you can't spell, OP.

OP..take a look at most of your "singers" today...they can't either, seriously.

Yea Toney ! for her hair, what did you think I meant ??

No stunts, no backup singers, no fireworks just putting her self out there in this performance. Granted her best years are behind her but she s a phenomenal singer-artist.

OP: You know nothing.

Shpell

Liza Minnelli is a national treasure.

OP: Do your homework.

She's a great all round entertainer. She was very good in several films. She's warm and witty. People like her.

Liza can be accused of ALOT of things, Not having talent or an iconic hair style that she owns, are not two of them.

She's a shtar baby!

Liza has more talent in her pinky than most so-called performers do these days. Great actress (in the right role), singer (in the right key), and dancer. She had her limits of course, but no one could sell a song like Liza. The art of actually selling a song seems to be long gone. She really made you believe she was a different character with every song she sang. It was magnificent.

Her amazshing crosshover appeal

Op, you might not like her but she could both sing and act, very talented woman.

Love ya, R3.

She was before my time, but it's so odd to me how she's managed to endure all these years as an icon when she stopped being successful as an actress after 1972. Unless you count playing second banana to Dudley Moore.

Say what you well, but just DO NOT look at her feet...you will never be able to un-see them.

Is she related to Liza MINNELLI?

She had spunk!!

A wonderful friend and a fabulous entertainer.

And she could rock a pantsuit like nobody!!!

R11 her best years were behind her in 1985.

OP is shilly.

I've always thought you should have focused on acting. She's really great in comic roles in particular.

Vulnerability. And an ok shouty-type voice like Ethel Merman. Judy once said she was basically a shouter too.

Does Judy not shout?

She inherited most of her mother's talent and all of her mother's demons. Thankfully she seems to have gotten at least some of Vincente's longevity, and she was apparently smarter with her money.

"Does Judy not shout? "

No. She dead.

Her personality.

Liza had sense in her film career. She knew when to get while the gettin' was good.

She’s pretty awful

My appeal to her is because she was best friends with Roy Halston Frowick, haha! If I were alive back then, I'd be after Halston so bad...and I found out after reading about him, he LOVED long, thick black dicks. I'd be a shoe in for him. He is/was kinda cute to me! And Liza and Halston loved to go to Studio 54, which I wish I had an opportunity to attend.

Other than that, I like Liza because she made herself, honestly. She moved to New York with no money from her parents and slept on benches in Central Park until she got her roles, especially Cabaret. And as soon as she made herself, she STILL dealt with her parents. Liza is an inspiration because she went from what I just described hearing and reading to who she is today. That alone makes her a queen in her own right.

Good point about how she made herself and didn't just weasel into the movie business because her parents were in it. She wanted to be an actress, but a stage actress. Movies followed, but she's always been a creature of the stage.

She can spell her last name.

She's unique. You can't mistake her for anyone else, and she can't just take on any role. Her range is rather limited, but at her best, she blows anyone else out of the water. She should be receiving a Kennedy Center Honor: I don't know what the hold up is.

Really sweet r3, but it doesn't answer the question, does it?

r4 Turn in your gay card. LIza Minelli never appeared in Cabaret on Broadway. So how you awarded her a Tony for that non-appearance is stupifying. You're kicked out of the club. No disappear!

R40's video is my favorite Liza era, around the time of the Radio City show. But her voice was beginning to get husky by then, and as it turned out, wouldn't last.

This is fun. I like how the stocky guy is so flexible.

So many triggered Eldergays. This is what I live for. x

She shings beutiful shongs and ish a fabuloush dansher.

Liza is one of the homeliest actresses who ever appeared on film.

Without Liza, there would be no Lady Gaga, so tell that to any Gaga worshipping Millenials. Also, Liza was a better actress than Gaga.

Back in the day, there was nothing like Liza in concert (and I mean that in a great way.)

Liza was talented, but also a product and symbol of her era of dazzle-dazzle, over-the-top, dynamo modern woman entertainer. I think she became more of a popular culture icon than known as a brilliant singer or actor like her mom. Liza was more of a scrappy, magnetic stage performer.

Liza was unique, and achieved a mass appeal with gays and older women. But it had a short shelf life compared with the real greats, including her mother. By that I mean the initial wow wore off after a few years, like three-four years.

[quote]LIza Minelli

Turn in yours R42.

Zero.

This is how it's done. Sensational Liza!

She was a great Influence on the great Freddie Mercury. He could rock the stage because of what he learned from Liza.

I still remember seeing her honor him at the memorial concert in 1992. She rocked!