“Reality is something you rise above.” Rising, falling but always rising again, screen and theatre star Liza Minnelli turns 73 today. The daughter of director Vincente Minnelli and Hollywood legend Judy Garland, the actress first appeared as a baby in her mother’s 1949 musical, ‘In the Good Old Summertime’. Winning an Oscar for her breakthrough role in 1972’s ‘Cabaret’, Minnelli has endured the stranger realities of a lifetime to become a pop culture icon and showbiz survivor. Follow the bio link gettyarchive for a look at Liza in pictures. 📷: Singer and actress Liza Minnelli kneeling, wearing a bloomer dress of white eyelet, with black ribbon sash at the waist by Youth Guild | Bert Stern/Condé Nast via Getty Images | 1968 #lizaminnelli #bertstern #gettyarchive