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Has two children with Augusto, Count Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna: Francesca Gregorini and Gianni Gregorini

A published interview with her in the late 1970s proclaimed her "Queen of the B-Movies".





Attended the famous Beatles concert at Shea Stadium, 15 years before she would meet her future husband, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr . [August 1965]



Barbara's photo was featured on the cover of Playboy magazine in January 1981. Inside was also a photo spread of Barbara. She made several other appearances in Playboy related to her movie work, especially as a "Bond Girl" in James Bond 007 - Der Spion, der mich liebte (1977).

Barbara was sent to Rome as model for the noted Seventeen magazine . There she fell in love with an Italian businessman, Augusto Gregorini, who was 11 years her senior. At age 18, she married Augusto and moved with him to Rome where she began her film career.



Born in Queens, she has three siblings; one older brother and a younger brother and sister. Her mother Marjorie Mary Goldbach née McKnight was Irish Catholic. Her father Howard Irwin Goldbach was Austrian Jewish and a New York City police officer. Her grandmother was Rumanian.





Has involved herself in charity work, including the Live Aid connected "Fashion Aid", and "The Rumanian Angel" appeal which was set up with Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono , George and John's widows. Barbara worked with the "Parents For Safe Food" Campaign. In 1991, with help from Pattie Boyd (George's ex), she set up a free clinic for addicts called SHARP (Self Help Addiction Recovery Program) in London.

While traveling through England, Ringo and Barbara suffered a near-fatal car crash, miraculously surviving with few injuries. Ringo decided he never wanted to be separated from Bach again. They married less than a year later. [May 1980]





This was between Barbara and Shelley Hack to replace Kate Jackson on Drei Engel für Charlie (1976). The New York-born Barbara was deemed too European and sophisticated for the role and Hack won the role. However, Hack was not keenly accepted as an "Angel" by audiences and left after only one season.

Fluent in Italian and has a working knowledge of French and Spanish.



Attended and graduated from the all-girl Dominican Commercial High School in Jamaica, New York (1964).



Received her Master's degree in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (1993).





Her most famous film role is of a Russian spy in James Bond 007 - Der Spion, der mich liebte (1977). Because she spoke with a Russian accent in that film, and because most of her other film roles were either in Italian or French, everyone assumed that she was European and refused to cast her in American roles. The truth is she was born and raised in New York, USA and speaks English with an American accent, even after her marriages to an Italian businessman and to an Englishman Ringo Starr



No relation to Catherine Bach

At 17 she was a top model for the Eileen Ford Agency and it was while on an assignment in Rome for Seventeen magazine that she fell in love with Italy and a young Italian industrialist.



Under the tutelage of top comic Giancarlo Giannini she appeared in the Italian film. Il Mio Monsignore followed by a number of other Italian films.



Her father was a policeman before becoming a costume jeweler in Los Angeles,.



Cast in the title role just a week before filming started.



Divorced after 9 year marriage to Industrialist Augusto Gregorini.

