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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2023 1:19:04 GMT
Raquel Welch, 'One Million Years B.C.' Actress and Hollywood Sex Symbol, Dead at 82 | PEOPLE
2,749 views Feb 16, 2023 #RaquelWelch #OneMillionYears #PEOPLE Raquel Welch, a longtime actress, international sex symbol and Golden Globe winner, has died, PEOPLE confirms. She was 82.
Welch "passed away peacefully early this morning after a brief illness," her manager Steve Sauer confirmed to PEOPLE on Wednesday.
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2023 16:51:33 GMT
US actress Raquel Welch, often credited with paving the way for modern day action heroines in Hollywood films, has died at the age of 82. The star passed away peacefully on Wednesday morning after a brief illness, her manager said. Welch became an international sex symbol in the 1960s, widely remembered for playing a bikini-clad cavewoman in the 1966 film One Million Years B.C. She also won a Golden Globe for her role in 1974's The Three Musketeers. Born Jo-Raquel Tejada in 1940, Welch grew up in California, where she won teen beauty pageants and later became a local weather forecaster. During a brief stint in Dallas, Texas, the divorced mother-of-two modelled for the Neiman Marcus clothing store and worked as a cocktail waitress. Her big break came in 1964 soon after she moved back to California, when she scored cameos in A House Is Not A Home, and Roustabout, a musical starring Elvis Presley.
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2023 18:35:43 GMT
She was the essence of style, sex appeal, and Hollywood glamour. Actress Raquel Welch died Wednesday, after a brief illness, at the age of 82.
Born in Chicago to a Bolivian-born father and English-American mother, Welch began performing at age seven after the family moved to California. By 19, she was on television, reporting the weather at a local TV station.
Her big Hollywood break came in 1966 with the sci-fi thriller "Fantastic Voyage." But what guaranteed her fame was the film "One Million Years B.C." forever captured in a classic poster.
Never a darling of the critics, Welch finally found acclaim in 1975, winning a Golden Globe for her role in "The Three Musketeers." Which is not to say that Raquel Welch was strictly serious, as when she appeared, as herself, in a classic episode of "Seinfeld."
In 1998 Playboy Magazine named Raquel Welch the third sexiest female star of the 20th century, along with Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.
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