Via Related Press
NEW YORK: Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the ocean in a skimpy, hairy bikini within the movie “One Million Years B.C.” would propel her to global intercourse image standing all over the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s, has died. She used to be 82.
Welch died early Wednesday after a temporary sickness, in keeping with her agent, Stephen LaManna of the ability company Leading edge Artists.
Welch’s leap forward got here in 1966′s campy prehistoric flick “One Million Years B.C.,” regardless of having a grand overall of 3 strains. Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she effectively refrained from pterodactyls however now not the attention of the general public.
“I simply idea it used to be a goofy dinosaur epic we’d have the ability to sweep underneath the carpet sooner or later,” she instructed The Related Press in 1981. “Improper. It became out that I used to be the Bo Derek of the season, the girl within the loin material about whom everybody mentioned, ‘My God, what a bod’ they usually anticipated to vanish in a single day.”
She didn’t, taking part in Lust for the comedy crew of Peter Cook dinner and Dudley Moore of their movie “Bedazzled” in 1967 and taking part in a undercover agent within the horny secret agent spoof “Fathom” that very same 12 months.
Her curves and attractiveness captured popular culture consideration, with Playboy crowning her the “maximum desired lady” of the ’70s, regardless of by no means being totally bare within the mag. In 2013, she graced the No. 2 spot on Males’s Well being’s “Most up to date Ladies of All Time” record. Within the movie “The Shawshank Redemption,” a poster of Welch covers an break out tunnel — the closing of 3 that personality Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) used after Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe.
Admirers took to Twitter to mourn the superstar, together with TV host Rosie O’Donnell, actor Chris Meloni and writer-director Paul Feig, who labored with Welch on “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and known as her “Sort, humorous and a real celebrity whom I used to be just about in love with for many of my adolescence. We’ve misplaced a real icon.”
Along with appearing, Welch used to be a singer and dancer. She stunned many critics — and received certain critiques — when she starred within the 1981 musical “Lady of the Yr” on Broadway, changing a vacationing Lauren Bacall. She returned to the Nice White Means in 1997 in “Victor/Victoria.”
She knew that some other folks didn’t take her severely on account of her glamorous symbol. “I’m now not Penny Marshall or Barbra Streisand,” she instructed the AP in 1993. “They’ll say, ‘Raquel Welch needs to direct? Give me a wreck.”’
Welch used to be born Jo-Raquel Tejada in Chicago and raised in L. a. Jolla, California. (The Jo in her title used to be from her mom, Josephine). Welch used to be a divorced mom when she met ex-actor became press agent, Patrick Curtis.
“The irony of all of it is that although other folks considered me as a intercourse image, if truth be told I used to be a unmarried mom of 2 young children!” she wrote in her autobiography, “Raquel: Past the Cleavage.”
Curtis changed into her supervisor and 2d husband and assisted in shaping her right into a glamor-girl with masses of mag covers and a string of flicks, plus workout movies and books like “The Raquel Welch Overall Attractiveness and Health Program.”
Even though she would seem in exploitative motion pictures, she additionally stunned many within the business with fantastic performances, together with in Richard Lester’s “The 3 Musketeers,” which earned her a Golden Globe, and reverse James Coco in “Wild Celebration.” She used to be additionally nominated for a Globe in 1988 for the TV film “Proper to Die.” She performed herself and mocked divas in an episode of “Seinfeld,” memorably attacking Elaine and damn Kramer.
Married and divorced 4 occasions, she is survived via two youngsters, Damon Welch and Tahnee Welch, who additionally changed into an actress, together with touchdown a featured function in 1985’s “Cocoon.”
NEW YORK: Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the ocean in a skimpy, hairy bikini within the movie “One Million Years B.C.” would propel her to global intercourse image standing all over the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s, has died. She used to be 82.
Welch died early Wednesday after a temporary sickness, in keeping with her agent, Stephen LaManna of the ability company Leading edge Artists.
Welch’s leap forward got here in 1966′s campy prehistoric flick “One Million Years B.C.,” regardless of having a grand overall of 3 strains. Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she effectively refrained from pterodactyls however now not the attention of the general public.
“I simply idea it used to be a goofy dinosaur epic we’d have the ability to sweep underneath the carpet sooner or later,” she instructed The Related Press in 1981. “Improper. It became out that I used to be the Bo Derek of the season, the girl within the loin material about whom everybody mentioned, ‘My God, what a bod’ they usually anticipated to vanish in a single day.”
She didn’t, taking part in Lust for the comedy crew of Peter Cook dinner and Dudley Moore of their movie “Bedazzled” in 1967 and taking part in a undercover agent within the horny secret agent spoof “Fathom” that very same 12 months.
Her curves and attractiveness captured popular culture consideration, with Playboy crowning her the “maximum desired lady” of the ’70s, regardless of by no means being totally bare within the mag. In 2013, she graced the No. 2 spot on Males’s Well being’s “Most up to date Ladies of All Time” record. Within the movie “The Shawshank Redemption,” a poster of Welch covers an break out tunnel — the closing of 3 that personality Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) used after Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe.
Admirers took to Twitter to mourn the superstar, together with TV host Rosie O’Donnell, actor Chris Meloni and writer-director Paul Feig, who labored with Welch on “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and known as her “Sort, humorous and a real celebrity whom I used to be just about in love with for many of my adolescence. We’ve misplaced a real icon.”
Along with appearing, Welch used to be a singer and dancer. She stunned many critics — and received certain critiques — when she starred within the 1981 musical “Lady of the Yr” on Broadway, changing a vacationing Lauren Bacall. She returned to the Nice White Means in 1997 in “Victor/Victoria.”
She knew that some other folks didn’t take her severely on account of her glamorous symbol. “I’m now not Penny Marshall or Barbra Streisand,” she instructed the AP in 1993. “They’ll say, ‘Raquel Welch needs to direct? Give me a wreck.”’
Welch used to be born Jo-Raquel Tejada in Chicago and raised in L. a. Jolla, California. (The Jo in her title used to be from her mom, Josephine). Welch used to be a divorced mom when she met ex-actor became press agent, Patrick Curtis.
“The irony of all of it is that although other folks considered me as a intercourse image, if truth be told I used to be a unmarried mom of 2 young children!” she wrote in her autobiography, “Raquel: Past the Cleavage.”
Curtis changed into her supervisor and 2d husband and assisted in shaping her right into a glamor-girl with masses of mag covers and a string of flicks, plus workout movies and books like “The Raquel Welch Overall Attractiveness and Health Program.”
Even though she would seem in exploitative motion pictures, she additionally stunned many within the business with fantastic performances, together with in Richard Lester’s “The 3 Musketeers,” which earned her a Golden Globe, and reverse James Coco in “Wild Celebration.” She used to be additionally nominated for a Globe in 1988 for the TV film “Proper to Die.” She performed herself and mocked divas in an episode of “Seinfeld,” memorably attacking Elaine and damn Kramer.
Married and divorced 4 occasions, she is survived via two youngsters, Damon Welch and Tahnee Welch, who additionally changed into an actress, together with touchdown a featured function in 1985’s “Cocoon.”