From age 13 to 15, Kohner lived in Berlin with her parents where the family had moved so that Frederick could work with film producer Artur Brauner.
[1] She started surfing at the age of 15, sometimes trading her peanut butter and radish sandwiches for chances to ride.
At the age of 17, Kathy appeared on the television and radio quiz program You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx.
Frederick Kohner sold the movie rights to Columbia Pictures (through the William Morris Agency) for $50,000, then giving five percent of this to his daughter Kathy.
[9] In 2011, Kohner-Zuckerman was inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach, California in the Woman of the Year category.
"[8] "Some people have Alcoholic Anonymous, Starbucks, church, I was retreating, trying to get away from high school and boys and movies on Saturday night ...