Leather bikini with a bold cutout that accentuates your sculpted physique. It was 1966 and who has the memory to remember the movie A million years ago knows well that no one is better than Raquel Welch she could dress like a sexy primitive woman. Anxious pagan Eve with long blond hair, who, in the “cave” version, ignited the imagination of millions of viewers. The cult film that was Raquel Welch, pseudonym Joe Raquel Tejada, passed away yesterday at the age of 82 after a short illness. Model, talented translator and above all a sex symbol of the 60s and 70s, she was one of the first openly Hispanic divas in Hollywood, after Rita Hayworth (whose last name was Cansino) and before Penelope Cruz and Jennifer Lopez. And, perhaps, this was one of the features that made her so noticeable and recognizable not only in American cinema, but also in ours.
She was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Armando Carlos Tejada Urquiso, a Bolivian aeronautical engineer of Spanish descent and an English mother. At the age of two, Raquel moved to suburban San Diego, California where she studied dance. and began to participate in numerous beauty contests. As a child, her massive physique did not go unnoticed, and when she was in her early twenties, it served as the driving force behind her career. At 24, she made her debut with small roles, in 1964 John Rich chose her along with Elvis Presley in carnival singer John Rich. After some television events such as Virginia AND The life of a witch, enters the collective imagination in Don Chaffee’s aforementioned buxom Loana. Although the credit for its discovery belongs to Eduardo de Filippo, who really wanted him to Shoot harder, harder… I don’t understand! 1966 next to Marcellus Mastroianniit’s in Mauro Bolognini who in the same year chooses her for fairies.
After her Roman passion, she returns to Hollywood and on the wave of success she is taken on many roles, where she always plays a sexy and seductive woman, albeit in different film genres. Better known for her irrepressible beauty, which, however, eventually became her limit, than for expressiveness, we find her in comedy. Neapolitan big shot Ken Annakin, in detective stories lady in concrete Gordon Douglas e Relentless Killer James Neilson and Westerns Bandolero! From Andrew W. McLaglen with Dean Martin and James Stewart e Texan and brothers of repentance Burt Kennedy.
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In 1970, she starred in a controversial film. Myra Breckinridge case Michael Sarne, as well as Mae West, John Huston and Farrah Fawcett. In 1972 he starred in the grotesque …and all in small denomination tickets Richard A. Colla paired with Burt Reynolds and Blue Beard Edward Dmytryk, starring Richard Burton. Her talent was rewarded in 1973 when she received her first and only Golden Globe for her role as Constance Bonacieux in the film. Three Musketeers Richard Lester, with Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee and Faye Dunaway. Given the film’s success, he’s still playing a role in a sequel next year. Miladyagain directed by Lester.
Meanwhile, after marrying James Welch, who had two children, one of whom is actress Tanya Welch, born in 1961, she remarried in 1967 to Patrick Curtis, the former child actor and nephew of director Billy Wilder, who produced several films. films of his wife and whom she divorced in 1973. In 1980, she married a third time to film producer Andre Weinfeld, whom she divorced in 1990, and finally in 1999 to Richard Palmer, with whom the story ends in 2008. than over the years, the actress begins to deplete her investments in cinema. Remember that in 1975 wild party James Ivory, Prince and the Pauper (1977) Richard Fleischer e Animal (1977) Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo. In 1987, she received her second Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Made-for-TV Movie. When to die Paul Wendkos, this time without a prize.
After nearly twenty years away from the big screen, and after being named “The World’s Most Desirable Woman” by Playboy magazine in 1979, Welch plays herself in Naked Gun 33⅓ – The Last Insult (1994) by Peter Segal. Coming in 2001 Revenge of the Blondes Robert Luketic with Reese Witherspoon, who remembered the late actress on Twitter with these words: “She was incredibly elegant, professional and glamorous. Just awesome”. Since then, there have been very few appearances on television, with the exception of some series such as Crime Scene: Miami. Marginal roles that have little to do with the brilliant career of the 60s and 70s, which she was a happy interpretation with her good dose of eroticism and healthy wit. “Raquel was very good, especially in comedy,” praised Marcello Mastroianni, partner in the already mentioned film. Shoot harder, harder… I don’t understand! – and comedy is much harder than drama.” Recognition that cements a career in its own way is unforgettable.
Source: Elle