Liza Minnelli Then
Born in March of 1946 in Los Angeles, California, Liza Minnelli was destined for a career in show business. At the age of just three years old, she got her first on-screen appearance, spotted in the final scene of In the Good Old Summertime, released in 1949. In 1961, she moved to NYC to attend the High School of Performing Arts and started to appear in local theatrical productions.
Liza Minnelli at a fashion show in New York, September 12th, 1974. Photo by Fairchild Archive / Penske Media / Shutterstock
At 17, she had her first big break in an Off-Broadway show of Best Foot Forward, winning her first Tony award at 19 for Flora the Red Menace. She also released several albums and then started getting into films in the late 1960s. She got an Oscar nomination in 1969 for The Sterile Cuckoo, before being cast in Cabaret.