Barbara Bouchet

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Barbara Bouchet
Born	Barbara Goutscher 15 August 1943 (1943-08-15) (age 66) Liberec, Czech republic
Years active	1959 to present
Spouse(s)	Luigi Borgese 1974 - 2006 (separated)

Barbara Bouchet, (born Barbara Goutscher 15 August 1943) is an actress and entrepreneuse, who currently lives in Italy.

She has acted in more than 80 films and television episodes and founded a production company that has produced fitness videos and books as well as owning a fitness studio. Her most famous roles^{[citation needed]} include starring as Miss Moneypenny in Casino Royale, as Kelinda in Star Trek: "By Any Other Name", as Patrizia in Non si sevizia un paperino and as Mrs Schermerhorn in Gangs of New York.

Biography

She was born in Liberec, in the Sudetenland, then in the German-occupied Czech Republic.^{[citation needed]} After the end of World War II her family was placed, along with many others, in a resettlement camp in the American occupation zone in Germany, from where they were, in time, able to apply for, and be granted, permission to emigrate.^{[citation needed]}

Like many other refugees, at that time, in post-war Europe, the family discovered, to their relief, that they were eligible to migrate to the United States, as a result of the humanitarian provisions of the Displaced Persons Act^[1] which had been legislated by Congress in 1948.^[2]

Youth

After arriving in America, her family was, eventually, able to settle in San Francisco, California, where the young Barbara Goutscher was raised and where she, later, attended the Galileo High School which is situated at the crossroads between the Russian Hill and Marina District areas of the city, drawing students mainly from those two neighborhoods.

In 1959, spurred by the popularity of the film Gidget,^{[citation needed]} KPIX-TV, the local television station covering the San Francisco Bay area, decided to hold a "Miss Gidget" beauty and talent contest on the Dick Stewart Television Show. The contest was open to all teenage girls in the local area, she entered and won, resulting in her first experience of fame.^{[citation needed]} Subsequently, she went out on a date with the male star of the movie, James Darren.^{[citation needed]}

The station offered her, as a prize, the chance, which she accepted, to become one of the "Regulars" in a dance group on the show, called The KPIX Dance Party.^[3] They were teenage dancers who danced live to the top pop and rock and roll hits of the day and were TV stars, by virtue of the attention they received by being on television six days per week.^{[citation needed]}

She was on the show from 1959 through 1962, after which she moved to the Hollywood area and made it into the film industry, changing her Germanic sounding surname to the French sounding Bouchet.^{[citation needed]}

A photo of Barbara Bouchet, as a dancing teenager, is available to be seen here.^[4]

Career

Barbara Bouchet began her career modeling for magazine covers and appearing in television commercials, before eventually becoming an actress.^{[citation needed]} Her first acting role was a minor part in What a Way to Go! (1964), which led to a series of other roles in the 1960s.^{[citation needed]}

She appeared in the films John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1964), In Harm's Way (1964), and Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966).

Moreover, in the James Bond satire, Casino Royale (1967), she played the role of Miss Moneypenny. Her early films gave her the grounding in character development that she needed in order to tackle more substantial roles later on in her career.^{[citation needed]} In 1968, she guest-starred in the Star Trek episode "By Any Other Name".

In 1970, she moved to Italy where she began acting in Italian films after growing tired of being typecast^{[citation needed]}, and unable to get chosen for starring roles in Hollywood.^{[citation needed]} In Italy she mostly played in the giallo, poliziottesco and commedia erotica all'italiana, (sex comedy) genres^{[citation needed]}.

Bouchet also appeared in La Tarantola dal ventre nero (Black Belly of the Tarantula, 1971), a giallo mystery film. Some notable films that she was in, at this era, were two giallo films that she appeared in : Alla ricerca del piacere, (Amuck, 1971), and Casa d'Appuntamento (French sex murders, 1972), a thriller. She appeared in Milano calibro 9 (1972), with Gastone Moschin, a violent, "poliziottesco" (gangster film).

Other films that she appeared in, were films such as Non si sevizia un paperino (1972) and L'Anatra all'arancia (Duck in Orange Sauce, 1975), in which she played with Monica Vitti.

She appeared in Con la rabbia agli occhi, known in English as Death Rage (1976), a giallo mafia film and also that same year with Marty Feldman in 40 gradi all'ombra del lenzuolo (Sex with a Smile), a commedia eroticaset as five farcical pieces in one film.

In the 1980s she became a television personality on Italian television,^{[citation needed]} typically appearing on a chat show with fellow Italian actress, Edwige Fenech. She starred with Gregory Peck in The Scarlet and The Black in 1983, a successful World War II war rescue TV movie.

In 1985, she established a production company and started to produce a successful series of keep fit books and videos. In addition, she opened a fitness studio in Rome.^{[citation needed]}

In 2002, she returned to American cinema, appearing in Gangs of New York, a film about the violence between the criminal underworld and immigrant gangs in New York, in which she appears as Mrs. Schermerhorn.

Personal life

In 1974, Barbara Bouchet married Luigi Borghese, a producer, and has two sons, Alessandro (b. 1976), a TV chef and Massimiliano (b. 1989), a bartender, by him. He subsequently produced some of her later films. She separated from her husband in 2006, citing different aspirations.^[5]

She lives with her family in Rome. She continues to work actively in films and television as well as her various business enterprises.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Television

• Dick Stewart Television Show, (1959-1962, uncredited)
• The Rogues (1964, 1 episode)
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965, 1 episode)
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966, 1 episode)
• The Virginian (1967, 1 episode)
• Tarzan (1968, 1 episode)
• Star Trek (1968, 1 episode)
• Cool Million (1972)
• Beauty Center Show (1983)
• The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
• Quelli della speciale (1992, mini-series)
• Stracult 2 (2001, 1 episode)
• Incantesimo 6 (2003)
• Diritto di difesa (2004, 4 episodes)
• Un posto al sole (2004)
• Capri (2006)
• Ho sposato uno sbirro (2007, mini-series)

Footnotes

External links

• Barbara Bouchet at the Internet Movie Database
• Barbara Bouchet at the TCM Movie Database
• Barbara Bouchet at Allmovie
• Barbara Bouchet recuerda sus inicios en el cine italiano - Barbara Bouchet talks about the beginnings of her career in Italian Cinema. (In Italian).

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