![]() At the same time, she was pregnant and expecting her first baby, Francesca. She made her movie debut with a small role, the Princess Nausicaa. An Italian, Yugoslavian, German and French coproduction, the cast included Bekim Fehmiu as Ulysses and Irene Papas as Penelope. “The Odyssey”, Italian TV miniseries broadcast on RAI (Italian state TV) inġ968, based on Homer's Odyssey. She began to be famous early owing to her popularity reflected in the television audience and her husband was not comfortable with it, he preferred the anonimity.įrancesca in 1968 and a son, Gianni Andrea,įranco Rossi, an Italian director asked her if she would play Her acting debut was in a show for the Italian television entitled “ Cordialmente” inġ967. One of those things they say happens, and it did.". She has said: -"I was casually asked on the street in Italy if I would do something for television. It was Barbara Bach's move to Italy which led to an acting career Barbara was working as a Model in Italy and began to appear frequently on fashion Italian magazines as "Gioia", "Amica" and "Bella", increasing her profile and developing her career. Some months later, at the age of 19 years old, she married Augusto, taking her husband's surname after marriage,īarbara Gregorini, and moved to Rome where she soon adapted to a new way of living. She later rang up her parents and told them that she´d be moving to Italy: "My parents were not terribly thrilled with the idea of my moving to Italy, but they eventually got used to it". I met this atractive Italian on the plane and he eventually convinced me that it would be much nicer living in Italy for my career". "I first went to Italy on a modelling assignment. It was in that year, 1966, on a trip to Rome to model a line of fabrics, when she metĪugusto Gregorini, an Italian businessman 11 years older. Vogue USA (July 1966) photographed by Richard Avedon, and the cover of She was one the most sought-faces in theĦ0s working with the Eileen Ford Agency and one of the highest paid models in the world, appearing on catalogs and the front covers of several international fashion magazines such as, Her figure (35-24-35) let her to be considered a Top model with onlyġ8 years old in 1965. She became the cover girl for "Seventeen" and her face was cover of every major magazine in the world. A year later, she shortened her name to Bach and began a highly successful career as a leading American model with the famed She graduated from the all-girl Dominican Commercial High School in Queens, New York inġ964. She has a younger sister, one brother a year older and another one a year younger.Ī young Barbara was elected captain of her high school basketball team. Her mother was Irish catolic, her father- a New York City police officer - was Austrian Jewish, and her grandmother was Romanian. On August 27, 1947, Barbara Ann Goldbach was born to a family with varied European origins, in Queens, New York. “The Spy Who Loved Me “( 1977) with the actor Roger Moore. Beautiful, classy, stylish, sexy, talented, an internationally known model from the 60s and 70s, actress, wife, mother, and Masters Degree in Psychology from UCLA in 1993, she involves herself in a great deal of Charity work, these are just a few words to describeīarbara Bach, now Barbara Starkey, Beatle Ringo Starr´s wife. ![]()
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