![]() ![]() The poster of her posing as a Daisy Duke that she designed later sold over five million copies. ![]() Bach had other ideas, so she brought her own homemade outfit, which was a T-shirt, a pair of cut-off denim shorts and high heels – a style which later became iconic. She also brought numerous changes to the character’s original draft, for example, Daisy Duke was supposed to wear a white turtleneck, poodle skirt and go-go boots. She first heard of the audition for the main role in this action-comedy TV show through her then husband, David Shaw the producers were looking for a woman who resembled Dolly Parton, which sounded nothing like her, but she decided to try due to her love of motorcycles.Īs it turned out, she charmed the casting crew and was hired instantly. The role that skyrocketed her career was that of Daisy Duke in “The Dukes of Hazzard”, that aired from 1979 to 1985. In the next year she landed the role of Melody in Michael Cimino’s “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot”, next to Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges. However, her first appearance on television screens was in “The Midnight Man”, Burt Lancaster’s murder mystery that was shot in upstate South Carolina in 1973 – Bach played the small role of Natalie Claiburn, the murder victim. She debuted her acting career at a very young age, as one of the children in a production of “The Sound of Music”. Because her allowance wasn’t enough to pay her tuition, she made clothes for theatre groups for money, and that was her way of survival at the time, indicating that her family had a very low income, despite once being notable and famous. She matriculated from Stevens High School in Rapid City, South Dakota, in 1970, and enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), choosing drama as her major. Catherine mostly grew up in Faith, South Dakota, USA, on her grandparents’ ranch. Her parents met in Europe, but divorced a couple of years after Catherine was born. Posted by Catherine Bach on Thursday, August 8, 2013 #ThrowbackThursday I still have my piggybank, do you have yours? #tbt #piggybank She is of German-Mexican descent, and her mother comes from one of the earliest families that landed in California, the famous Verdugo family. Her mother was an acupuncturist, Norma Jean Kucera, and her father was a rancher Bernard Bachman. Original source: Early life and EducationĬatherine Bachman was born on 1 March 1954, in Warren, Ohio USA. Article cannot be re-published in any other pages or documents. Just a simple reminder that article is created and owned only by. You recognize her for her famous, sexy role in the action-filled series “The Dukes of Hazzard”, but how much do you really know about this hot brunette? Yes, we are talking about Daisy Duke, or rather about Catherine Bach, as is her real-life name. Or at least her legs, with nothing but ripped jean shorts and high heels. If you grew up in the ‘80s, you have probably seen her face. ![]()
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