When you start out your career playing a corpse on screen, it isn't the most promising of scenarios. You won't have much chance to show off your range as a performer in a role like that. Catherine Bach must have feared the worst for her career when she took the part in the movie 'The Midnight Man,' but things got better for her after that.
After her stiff performance in 'The Midnight Man,' Bach was cast in 'Thunderbolt & Lightfoot', where she got to do some actual acting. It wasn't until she put on a pair of cut-off shorts and played Daisy Dukes in 'The Dukes of Hazzard' that the public was convinced, but once they were all-in on Bach, they were really all-in. She made the part so iconic that cut-off shorts are still referred to as 'Daisy Dukes' to this day.