As usual, I got to the end and shed some tears and felt fully satisfied with the movie. She has two adult children, a son (by Wolf) and a daughter (by Dart), and two grandchildren.I recently saw the movie,'Beaches' for the 3rd or 4th time. She is currently married to Stephen Dart, a California businessman. She was married to rock concert promoter Steve Wolf until they divorced in 1977 (less than half a year before he was murdered when robbers broke into his house).

Her next work was the Roundabout Theatre Broadway production of her new musical, The People in the Picture, which opened on April 28, 2011, and closed on June 19, 2011, and starred Donna Murphy. She wrote the book and lyrics for the 2009 stage musical, Laughing Matters, for the Pasadena Playhouse, California. novel Beaches later made into the iconic film of the same name starring Bette Midler.' The character became 'Cee Cee Bloom' in her. She got the idea to write about a woman 'loosely based on 'the no holds barred outrageous person' that she found in Cher. She wrote for The Sonny and Cher Show variety show in the 1970s. I grew up in a household where both my parents were immigrants – my mother from Russia, father from Lithuania – and they spoke more Yiddish in my house than English, so it was just a completely a part of who I was.' ĭart has written nine novels, including Beaches. In an interview (Summer 2007), when asked the question: 'Has the Jewish cultural dynamic in your upbringing influenced what and how you write?', Dart replied 'Unquestionably. She is also a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in theater. She graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1962 and was inducted into their alumni hall of fame in 2009. She also went to classes at the Pittsburgh Playhouse as a child. She also voiced Donna, Peter Cottontail's love interest, in the 1971 stop-motion Easter classic, Here Comes Peter Cottontail.ĭart was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was an actress as a youth with the Curtaineers, an inter-racial theater group at the Settlement house, at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, and The White Barn Theatre. She has also written several stage musicals as well as for television shows, such as The Sonny and Cher Show. Her most notable novel is Beaches, which was made into a 1988 film of the same name.

Iris Rainer Dart ( née Rainer born March 3, 1944) is an American author and playwright for television and the stage.

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