Her acting career perked up in recent years, with her humorous guest appearances on the series Arrested Development in 20 and her role in Sex and the City 2 (2010). for a world tour called The Ultimate Event.
Around this time, she teamed up Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. She participated in the critically acclaimed documentary, Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente, the following year, which received several Emmy Award nominations. In 1986, Minnelli lost her father who died of heart failure. After getting sober, Minnelli toured extensively and acted in several forgettable films, including Rent-A-Cop (1987) and Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988), a sequel that failed to recapture the magic of the 1981 hit. She went to the Betty Ford Clinic for rehabilitation. Despite the stellar cast and crew, the film bombed at the box office and received mostly negative reviews.īy the mid-1980s, Minnelli was ready to tackle her own problems with drugs and alcohol. The musical New York, New York (1977) gave her a chance to work with famed director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro.
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The show won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Program-Variety and Popular Music in 1973.Īfter those great successes, however, Minnelli's film career hit a rough patch with such flops as Lucky Lady (1975) and A Matter of Time (1976), which was directed by her father.
Minnelli’s hot streak continued with the television special, Liza with a Z, which was produced by Fred Ebb and Fosse. The film won eight awards in total, including a Best Supporting Actor award for Joel Grey and Best Director for Fosse. For her efforts, Minnelli won the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film, directed by Bob Fosse, showcased her singing talents as well as her range as an actress.
Two years later, Minnelli landed her greatest film role, playing floundering nightclub singer Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret (1972), which was set in Germany in the 1930s.
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