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Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch in the 1960's.

Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress. Raquel Welch is one of the most famous sex symbols of all time, and she is still considered one of the most beautiful women in the world.


Early Life

She was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children born to Armando Carlos Tejada and Josephine Sarah Hall. Her father was an immigrant from Bolivia of Castilian Spanish extraction who was an aerospace engineer, and her mother an American of Irish descent.

In 1942, Armand Tejada was transferred to San Diego, California. The family moved to the suburb of La Jolla, where Raquel grew up. She took dancing lessons as a child, and was winning beauty pageants by the time she was a teenager. Among her titles were "Miss Photogenic," "Miss La Jolla," "Miss Contour," and "Miss San Diego." In 1957, she was named "Miss Fairest of the Fair" at the San Diego County Fair. After high school she entered San Diego State College on a theater arts scholarship. The following year she married a high school sweetheart, James Welch.

Career

In 1959, Raquel Welch played the title role in the famous Ramona Pageant, a yearly outdoor play at Hemet, California, which is based on the novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson.

Welch became a weather forecaster at a local San Diego television station. Because of her heavy schedule, she decided to leave college. Her marriage broke up and she moved with her two children to Dallas, Texas, where she modeled for Neiman-Marcus and worked as a cocktail hostess, intending to move on to New York City from there.

Instead, she moved back to California. She found a place in Los Angeles and started making the rounds of the movie studios. She was cast in bit parts in a few films, including Roustabout starring Elvis Presley. Welch's first starring role was in A Swingin' Summer, which led to a contract with 20th Century Fox. She was then cast in the Sci-fi hit Fantastic Voyage.

On loan out to Hammer Studios in Britain, she starred in the remake of One Million Years B.C.. After her appearance as Lust incarnate in Bedazzled, she returned to the United States and appeared in a Western with James Stewart titled Bandolero!, which was followed by Lady in Cement with Frank Sinatra. Her first real starring role was in Myra Breckinridge with the one and only Mae West in the cast. But the movie turned out to be a dismal failure.

Despite box office disappointments, Welch became one of the leading sex symbols of the 1960s and 1970s. Her most memorable publicity still, where she was clad in a furry animal-skin bikini for One Million Years B.C., became a bestselling poster.

Her television appearances include the series The Hollywood Palace, the made for TV movies The Legend of Walks Far Woman and Right to Die, in which she turned in a stirring performance as a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease, and in the PBS series American Family, about a Mexican American family in East Los Angeles. She has also appeared in the night time soap opera CPW and made infomercials and exercise videos.

She has also performed in a nightclub act in Las Vegas and has starred on Broadway in Woman of the Year and in Victor/Victoria, where she replaced Julie Andrews.

Personal life

She has been married to James Welch (1959)-(1962), publicist and agent; Patrick Curtis (who played the baby of Olivia de Havilland in Gone With The Wind) (1967)-(1972), writer; Andre Weinfeld (1980-1990); and Richard Palmer (1999).

She is the mother of Damon Welch and actress Tahnee Welch.

Achievements and awards

In 1975, Raquel Welch won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy for The Three Musketeers. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in the TV drama Right to Die (1988).

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

Filmography

  • Roustabout (1964) (Paramount Pictures) ... College girl with blue bow (uncredited)
  • A House Is Not A Home (1964) (Embassy Pictures) ... Call girl (uncredited)
  • Do Not Disturb (1965) (20th Century Fox) (uncredited)
  • A Swingin' Summer (1965) (United Screen Arts) ... Jeri
  • Fantastic Voyage (1966) (20th Century Fox) ... Cora Peterson
  • One Million Years B.C. (1966) (20th Century Fox) ... Loana
  • Spara forte, piu forte, non capisco (1966) (Embassy Pictures) ... Tania Montini ... aka Shoot Loud, Louder
  • Le Fate (1966) (Royal Films International) ... Elena
  • Le Plus vieux metier du monde (1967) (Goldstone Film Enterprises) ... Nini
  • Fathom (1967) (20th Century Fox) ... Fathom Harvill
  • Bedazzled (1967) (20th Century Fox) ... Lillian Lust
  • The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1967) (MGM) ... Juliana
  • Bandolero! (1968) (20th Century Fox) ... Maria Stoner
  • Lady in Cement (1968) (20th Century Fox) ... Kit Forrest
  • 100 Rifles (1969) (20th Century Fox) ... Sarita
  • Flareup (1969) (MGM) ... Michele
  • The Magic Christian (1969) (Commonwealth United Entertainment) ... Priestess of the Whip
  • Myra Breckinridge (1970) (20th Century Fox) ... Myra Breckinridge
  • The Beloved (1970) (Joseph Brenner Assciates) ... Elena
  • Hannie Caulder (1971) (Paramount Pictures) ... Hannie Caulder
  • Fuzz (1972) (United Artists) ... Eileen McHenry
  • Kansas City Bomber (1973) (MGM) ... K.C. Carr
  • Bluebeard (1973) (Cinerama Releasing Corp.) ... Magdalena
  • The Last of Sheila (1973) (Warner Bros.) ... Alice
  • The Three Musketeers (1973) (20th Century Fox) ... Constance de Bonancieux
  • The Four Musketeers (1975) (20th Century Fox) ... Constance de Bonancieux
  • The Wild Party (1975) (American International Pictures) ... Queenie
  • Mother, Jugs and Speed (1976) (20th Century Fox) ... Jennifer "Jugs"
  • L'Animal (1977) (Analysis Film Releasing Corp.) ... Jane Gardner ... aka Stunt Woman
  • Crossed Swords (1977) (Warner Bros.) ... Edith ... aka The Prince and the Pauper
  • The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) (Paramount) ... Herself (uncredited)
  • Chairman of the Board (1998) (Trimark Pictures) ... Grace Kosik
  • Folle d'elle (1998) (UGC-Fox Distribution) ... Jacqueline
  • Tortilla Soup (2001) (Samuel Goldwyn Company) ... Hortensia
  • Legally Blonde (2001) (MGM) ... Mrs. Windham Vandermark

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She has been married to James Welch (1959)-(1962), publicist and agent; Patrick Curtis (who played the baby of Olivia de Havilland in Gone With The Wind) (1967)-(1972), writer; Andre Weinfeld (1980-1990); and Richard Palmer (1999). He also played a gay neighbor to Kevin Spacey in the Oscar-winning American Beauty in 1999. She has also performed in a nightclub act in Las Vegas and has starred on Broadway in Woman of the Year and in Victor/Victoria, where she replaced Julie Andrews. Low ratings for this program caused its cancellation in 1993. She has also appeared in the night time soap opera CPW and made infomercials and exercise videos. His performance in this program would earn him a Golden Globe award (along with three nominations) and four Emmy nominations for best actor. Her television appearances include the series The Hollywood Palace, the made for TV movies The Legend of Walks Far Woman and Right to Die, in which she turned in a stirring performance as a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease, and in the PBS series American Family, about a Mexican American family in East Los Angeles. Sam Beckett who was trapped by a malfunction of his time machine that inserts his consciousness into people in the past.

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Welch became a weather forecaster at a local San Diego television station. Because of her heavy schedule, she decided to leave college. My Sister Sam (1 episode 1986). In 1959, Raquel Welch played the title role in the famous Ramona Pageant, a yearly outdoor play at Hemet, California, which is based on the novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson. Designing Women (1986–1988). The following year she married a high school sweetheart, James Welch. Matlock (2 episodes 1987). After high school she entered San Diego State College on a theater arts scholarship. Eisenhower and Lutz (1988).

Among her titles were "Miss Photogenic," "Miss La Jolla," "Miss Contour," and "Miss San Diego." In 1957, she was named "Miss Fairest of the Fair" at the San Diego County Fair. Lord of Illusions (1995). She took dancing lessons as a child, and was winning beauty pageants by the time she was a teenager. Netforce (1999). The family moved to the suburb of La Jolla, where Raquel grew up. In 1942, Armand Tejada was transferred to San Diego, California.

Her father was an immigrant from Bolivia of Castilian Spanish extraction who was an aerospace engineer, and her mother an American of Irish descent. She was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children born to Armando Carlos Tejada and Josephine Sarah Hall.
. Raquel Welch is one of the most famous sex symbols of all time, and she is still considered one of the most beautiful women in the world.

Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress. Windham Vandermark. Mrs. Legally Blonde (2001) (MGM) ..

Hortensia. Tortilla Soup (2001) (Samuel Goldwyn Company) .. Jacqueline. Folle d'elle (1998) (UGC-Fox Distribution) ..

Grace Kosik. Chairman of the Board (1998) (Trimark Pictures) .. Herself (uncredited). The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) (Paramount) ..

aka The Prince and the Pauper. Edith .. Crossed Swords (1977) (Warner Bros.) .. aka Stunt Woman.

Jane Gardner .. L'Animal (1977) (Analysis Film Releasing Corp.) .. Jennifer "Jugs". Mother, Jugs and Speed (1976) (20th Century Fox) ..

Queenie. The Wild Party (1975) (American International Pictures) .. Constance de Bonancieux. The Four Musketeers (1975) (20th Century Fox) ..

Constance de Bonancieux. The Three Musketeers (1973) (20th Century Fox) .. Alice. The Last of Sheila (1973) (Warner Bros.) ..

Magdalena. Bluebeard (1973) (Cinerama Releasing Corp.) .. Carr. K.C.

Kansas City Bomber (1973) (MGM) .. Eileen McHenry. Fuzz (1972) (United Artists) .. Hannie Caulder.

Hannie Caulder (1971) (Paramount Pictures) .. Elena. The Beloved (1970) (Joseph Brenner Assciates) .. Myra Breckinridge.

Myra Breckinridge (1970) (20th Century Fox) .. Priestess of the Whip. The Magic Christian (1969) (Commonwealth United Entertainment) .. Michele.

Flareup (1969) (MGM) .. Sarita. 100 Rifles (1969) (20th Century Fox) .. Kit Forrest.

Lady in Cement (1968) (20th Century Fox) .. Maria Stoner. Bandolero! (1968) (20th Century Fox) .. Juliana.

The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1967) (MGM) .. Lillian Lust. Bedazzled (1967) (20th Century Fox) .. Fathom Harvill.

Fathom (1967) (20th Century Fox) .. Nini. Le Plus vieux metier du monde (1967) (Goldstone Film Enterprises) .. Elena.

Le Fate (1966) (Royal Films International) .. aka Shoot Loud, Louder. Tania Montini .. Spara forte, piu forte, non capisco (1966) (Embassy Pictures) ..

Loana. One Million Years B.C. (1966) (20th Century Fox) .. Cora Peterson. Fantastic Voyage (1966) (20th Century Fox) ..

Jeri. A Swingin' Summer (1965) (United Screen Arts) .. Do Not Disturb (1965) (20th Century Fox) (uncredited). Call girl (uncredited).

A House Is Not A Home (1964) (Embassy Pictures) .. College girl with blue bow (uncredited). Roustabout (1964) (Paramount Pictures) ..