Midler performs all the songs on the album, with the exception of the instrumental “Camellia”. Apart from the title track, the soundtrack was entirely recorded live and also features concert monologues, with Midler portraying the character The Rose, loosely based on blues singer Janis Joplin.

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Loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin, the film follows a self-destructive rock star in the late 1960s, who struggles to cope with the pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.

“We [The Rose] hope to terminate our contracts with the agency as soon as possible. We apologize to our fans,” the group announced to media outlets. The agency has refuted the latest allegations: “The Rose’s claims that we ‘violated terms in the exclusive contract’ are entirely false,” the company said in a statement.

Quinn’s newest novel, “The Rose Code,” explores the dynamics during World War II at Bletchley Park in England. They’re all based closely on real women or composites of real women, and they represent the range of roles women could play in the Bletchley Park codebreaking process.

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Osla Benning

Did you know much about the codebreakers at Bletchley Park prior to reading the novel? Each woman experiences a romance during their time at Bletchley Park. For Osla, it’s a romance with Prince Phillip.

The company’s television division has optioned the rights to Kate Quinn’s novel The Rose Code and is developing it as a scripted TV series.

Black Bear Pictures is developing The Rose Code into a TV series. Black Bear Pictures previously developed the movie The Imitation Game, also about Bletchley Park codebreakers. This story is The Imitation Game meets The Crown and we are excited to bring this thrilling historical tale to the screen.”

Francis Gray

Nina’s and Jordan’s narratives truly sing in this powerful novel about unusual women facing sometimes insurmountable odds with grace, grit, love and tenacity. Kristin Hannah is the bestselling author of more than 20 novels, including “The Nightingale” and “The Great Alone.” William Morrow. 560 pp.

There’s also a Canadian connection as one of the characters in the novel, Osla Kendall, is lightly fictionalized from the real life Osla Benning. Just like in the novel, the real life Canadian-born codebreaker was Prince Philip’s wartime girlfriend.

When he married the Queen, the Prince was given three additional titles, which are Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich. He was eventually made a Prince at his own request, supposedly because he did not want to feel inferior to his reigning wife.

Deceased (1921–1974)

Margaret Osla Henniker-Major (née Benning; 23 August 1921 – 29 October 1974) was a Canadian debutante, who worked at Bletchley Park, was Prince Philip’s first girlfriend, and later married John Henniker-Major (later 8th Baron Henniker).

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