Raquel Welch

Jo Raquel Welch (Template:Née; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress. Welch first gained attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Hannie Caulder (1971), Kansas City Bomber (1972), The Last of Sheila (1973), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Wild Party (1975), and Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976). She made several television variety specials.

Through her portrayal of strong female characters, helping her break the mold of the traditional sex symbol, Welch developed a unique film persona that made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s. Her rise to stardom in the mid-1960s was partly credited with ending Hollywood's vigorous promotion of the blonde bombshell.<ref>Longworth, Karina. (October 21, 2014). "Raquel Welch, From Pin-up to Pariah" Template:Webarchive You Must Remember This. Retrieved December 1, 2016.</ref><ref>Öncü, Ece. (February 9, 2012). Spend the Weekend with Raquel Welch and Film Society Template:Webarchive Film Society of Lincoln Center Retrieved August 5, 2015.</ref><ref>Heavey, John. (February 23, 2012). Video: Two Conversations with Raquel Welch Template:Webarchive Film Society of Lincoln Center Retrieved August 2015.</ref> Her love scene with Jim Brown in 100 Rifles also made cinematic history with their portrayal of interracial intimacy.<ref name=foxjimbrown>Template:Cite news</ref> She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974 for her performance as Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers and reprised the role in its sequel the following year. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Television Film for her performance in Right to Die (1987). Her final film was How to Be a Latin Lover (2017). In 1995, Welch was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History". Playboy ranked Welch No.Template:Nbsp3 on their "100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century" list.

Early life

Welch was born Jo Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to San Diego,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> California, at age two with her family. She was the first child of Josephine Sarah Hall and Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo.<ref name="hollywood" /><ref name="Beyond">Template:Cite book</ref> Her mother was of English descent with ancestors tracing back to the Mayflower; she was the daughter of Clara Louise Adams and architect Emery Stanford Hall.<ref>Template:Cite book Alt URL</ref><ref name="sd1958">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her father was an aeronautical engineer from La Paz, Bolivia, of Spanish descent; he was the son of Raquel Urquizo and Agustin Tejada.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="sd1958" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Her cousin, Bolivian politician Lidia Gueiler Tejada, became the first female president of Bolivia and the second female non-royal head of state in the Americas.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Welch had a younger brother, James ("Jim"), and a younger sister, Gayle.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Welch was raised in the Presbyterian religion and attended Pacific Beach Presbyterian Church every Sunday with her family.<ref name="hollywood">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book Alt URL</ref> As a young girl, Welch had the desire to be a performer and entertainer. She began studying ballet at age seven, but after ten years of study, she left the art at seventeen when her instructor told her she did not have the right body type for professional ballet companies.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At age 14, she won beauty titles as Miss Photogenic and Miss Contour.<ref name="Otfinoski2007" /> While attending La Jolla High School she won the title of Miss La Jolla and the title of Miss San DiegoTemplate:Sndsthe Fairest of the FairTemplate:Sndsat the San Diego County Fair.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This long line of beauty contests eventually led to the state title of Maid of California.<ref name="auto1">Stone, Joe. (June 24, 1958). "Fairest Queen's a Triple-A Girl" Template:Webarchive Evening Tribune. Retrieved March 17, 2023, from The San Diego Tribune.</ref> Her parents divorced when she finished her school years.<ref name="Welch, Raquel 2010">Welch, Raquel. (2010). Raquel Welch: Beyond the Cleavage. New York: Weinstein Books. pp. 3–28.</ref>

Welch graduated with honors from high school in 1958.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="auto1"/> Seeking an acting career, she entered San Diego State College on a theater arts scholarship,<ref name=glamour>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the following year she married her high school sweetheart, James Welch. She assumed his last name and kept it throughout her life.<ref>Giammarco, David. (2001, July & Aug.). "Raquel Welch: The Goddess Factor" Template:Webarchive Cigar Aficionado</ref> She won several parts in local theater productions.<ref name="Otfinoski2007" />

In 1960, Welch got a job as a weather presenter at KFMB, a local San Diego television station.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Because her family life and television duties were so demanding, she decided to give up her drama classes. After her separation from James Welch, she moved with her two children to Dallas, Texas, where she made a "precarious living" as a model for Neiman Marcus and as a cocktail waitress.<ref name="Otfinoski2007" />

Career

1964–1966: Early works and breakthrough

Welch initially intended to move to New York City from Dallas, but moved back to Los Angeles in 1963 and started applying for roles with film studios.<ref name="Otfinoski2007" /> During this period, she met a one-time child actor and Hollywood agent Patrick Curtis who became her personal and business manager.<ref name=glamour /> They developed a plan to turn Welch into a sex symbol.<ref name="Otfinoski2007" /> To avoid typecasting as a Latina, he convinced her to use her ex-husband's surname.<ref name="Otfinoski2007" /> She was cast in small roles in two films, A House Is Not a Home (1964) and the musical Roustabout (1964), an Elvis Presley film. She also landed small roles on the television series Bewitched, McHale's Navy and The Virginian and appeared on the weekly variety series The Hollywood Palace as a billboard girl and presenter. She was one of many actresses who auditioned for the role of Mary Ann Summers on the television series Gilligan's Island.

Welch's first featured role was in the beach film A Swingin' Summer (1965). That same year, she won the Deb Star while her photo in a Life magazine layout called "The End of the Great Girl Drought!" created a buzz around town.<ref>Amaya, Mario. (May 25, 2017). "El arte de ser ícono: una entrevista con Raquel Welch" Template:Webarchive Bocas. Retrieved May 28, 2017</ref> She was strongly considered for the role of Domino in Thunderball<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was also noticed by the wife of producer Saul David, who recommended her to 20th Century Fox, where with the help of Curtis she landed a contract.<ref name="Otfinoski2007" /> She agreed to a seven-year nonexclusive contract, five pictures over the next five years, and two floaters.<ref name=glamour /> Studio executives talked about changing her name to "Debbie". They thought "Raquel" would be hard to pronounce. She refused their request. She wanted her real name, so she stuck with "Raquel Welch".<ref>Raquel Welch [Interview by Piers Morgan]. (October 20, 2015). In Piers Morgan's Life Stories. London, England: ITV.</ref><ref>Associated Press. (June 28, 2015). Raquel Welch: 'The essence of who I am is a Latina' . Retrieved October 4, 2015, from Fox News</ref> After screen testing for Saul David's Our Man Flint,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> she was cast in a leading role in David's sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage (1966), in which she portrayed a member of a medical team that is miniaturized and injected into the body of an injured scientist with the mission to save his life. The film was a hit and made her a star.<ref name="Otfinoski2007" />

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This 1966 promotional still of Welch in the deerskin bikini became a bestselling poster and turned her into an instant pin-up girl.

Fox loaned Welch to Hammer Studios in Britain where she starred in the science fiction film One Million Years B.C. (1966), a remake of the Hal Roach film One Million B.C. (1940). Her only costume was a two-piece deer skin bikini. She was described as "wearing mankind's first bikini" and the fur bikini was described as a "definitive look of the 1960s".<ref name="Filmfacts">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Mansour2005">Template:Cite book</ref> The New York Times hailed her in its review of the film (which was released in the UK in 1966 and in the U.S. in 1967), "a marvelous breathing monument to womankind".<ref>Template:"'One Million Years B.C.' Presents a Nice Live Raquel Welch", (February 22, 1967). The New York Times.</ref> One author said, "although she had only three lines in the film, her luscious figure in a fur bikini made her a star and the dream girl of millions of young moviegoers".<ref name="Otfinoski2007">Template:Cite book</ref> A publicity still of her in the bikini became a bestselling poster and turned her into an instant pin-up girl.<ref name="BBCW">Template:Cite news</ref> The film raised Welch's stature as a leading sex symbol of the era.<ref name="Bale">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2011, Time magazine listed Welch's B.C. bikini in the "Top Ten Bikinis in Pop Culture".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In 1966, Welch starred with Marcello Mastroianni in the Italian crime film Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand for Joseph E. Levine.<ref name="ok">"Raquel Welch: Living Up to Her Legend" Weller, George. Los Angeles Times September 11, 1966: N10.</ref> The same year, she appeared in the film Sex Quartet as Elena in the segment "Fata Elena". She was the only American in the cast of the anthology comedy film The Oldest Profession (1967); her segment was directed by Michael Pfleghar. In Italy, she also appeared in a heist film for MGM, The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968). It co-starred Edward G. Robinson, who said of Welch, "I must say she has quite a body. She has been the product of a good publicity campaign. I hope she lives up to it because a body will only take you so far."<ref>"Edward G. Robinson – Mr. Bad Guy Never Had It So Good: Edward Robinson" Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times February 28, 1967: d1.</ref>

1967–1979: International stardom

Her first starring vehicle, the British Modesty Blaise-style spy film Fathom (1967), was filmed in Spain for 20th Century Fox. Second unit director Peter Medak said Welch "was at that time quite inexperienced, exactly like one of those American drum majorettes. But she tried very hard and went to see the rushes each day, gradually improving. 'Who's this dumb broad?' people used to say. But I said: 'You wait. I'll bet she makes it.' I liked her very much because she was such a genuine person. And she had a beautiful body which always helps."<ref>"Class will tell: Derek Malcolm interviews Peter Medak, a director who is at last making his impact on the British cinema" Malcolm, Derek. The Guardian London, May 15, 1972: 10.</ref> Welch said her role was "a blown up Barbie doll".<ref name="ReferenceA">"Sex Goddess Is Human, After All" Los Angeles Times June 9, 1968: c12.</ref> Reviewing her performance, the Los Angeles Times film critic said that "each new Raquel Welch picture brings further proof that when Maria Montez died they didn't break the mold. Like Maria, Raquel can't act from here to there, but both ladies seem to have been born to be photographed ... this sappiest of spy pictures."<ref>Template:"'Fathom' Playing on Citywide Screens" Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times August 10, 1967: d16.</ref>

At this stage, Welch owed Fox four films, at one a year. She and Curtis also established their own production company, Curtwel.<ref name="ok" /> Fox wanted Welch to play Jennifer in their adaptation of Valley of the Dolls but she refused, wanting to play the role of Neely O'Hara. The studio was not interested, casting Patty Duke; Sharon Tate played Jennifer North.<ref>"Wonder Woman!!" Hallowell, John. Los Angeles Times July 14, 1968: o26.</ref>

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Welch with Dean Martin in Bandolero! (1968)

In England, she appeared as Lust incarnate in the Peter Cook–Dudley Moore comedy, Bedazzled (1967), a Swinging Sixties retelling of the Faust legend. It was popular, as was the Western, Bandolero! (1968), which was shot in Del Rio, Texas, at the Alamo Village. She co-starred with James Stewart and Dean Martin. "I think she's going to stack up all right," Stewart said of Welch.<ref>"Movie Making—30 Years of Fun for Jimmy Stewart: Jimmy Stewart Stewart's 30 Years" Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times October 15, 1967: d19.</ref> "No one is going to shout, 'Wow it's Anne Bancroft all over again'," said Welch of her performance, "but at least I'm not Miss Sexpot running around half naked all the time."<ref name="ReferenceA" />

In 1968, Welch appeared with Frank Sinatra in the detective film Lady in Cement, a sequel to the film Tony Rome (1967). She played the socialite Kit Forrest, the romantic interest of Tony Rome. Welch later said wittily that she caught the film from time to time and realized only later that Kit Forrest was an alcoholic: "I'm watching this movie and I'm thinking, 'What the hell has she got on?' At one point, I had this epiphany: 'Oh, she's an alcoholic!' I didn't know that. How could I miss that?" She reportedly was so smitten with Sinatra that she forgot to act: "I think I was just so enamored with Frank Sinatra, you know. He's hypnotic."<ref>Wenn. (April 10, 2017). "Raquel Welch: 'I was awful in Sinatra film'" Template:Webarchive Retrieved April 15, 2017, from XPOSÉ.ie.</ref>

Welch starred as a freedom fighter leader in 100 Rifles, a 1969 western directed by Tom Gries and filmed in Almería, Spain. It also starred Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, and Fernando Lamas. The film provoked publicity and controversy at the time because it included a love scene between Welch and Brown that breached Hollywood's taboo against onscreen interracial intimacy.<ref>Gleich, J. (2011). "Jim Brown: from integration to resegregation in The Dirty Dozen and 100 Rifles" Cinema Journal, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Fall 2011), pages 1–25.</ref> The film is remembered for the spectacular "Shower Scene" in which Welch distracts the soldiers on the train by taking a shower at a water tower along the tracks. The director, Gries, tried hard to convince Welch to do the scene naked, but she refused. It was one of the many instances Welch resisted going nude on-screen and pushed back for years against producers who wanted her to act or pose nude.<ref>Associated Press. (May 5, 2017). Raquel Welch Resisted Going Nude On-Screen for Years. Template:Webarchive The Salamanca Press. Retrieved March 6, 2017.</ref><ref name="pastdaily.com">Skene, Gordon. (June 18, 2017). In Conversation With Raquel Welch 1975Template:SndPast Daily Pop Chronicles. Template:Webarchive Past Daily. Retrieved October 19, 2018.</ref> In 1969, Welch also starred in the thriller Flareup and had a supporting role in the dark comedy The Magic Christian.

Welch's most controversial role came in Myra Breckinridge (1970). She took the role of the film's transsexual heroine in an attempt to be taken seriously as an actress.<ref>Peikert, Mark. (February 16, 2015). Raquel Welch vs. Mae West. Template:Webarchive Out. Retrieved March 13, 2018.</ref><ref name="pastdaily.com" /> The production was characterized by animosity between Welch and Mae West, who walked out of the film for three days. The film was based on Gore Vidal's controversial bestseller about a man who becomes a woman through surgery. The film's producer Robert Fryer stated: "If a man were going to become a woman, he would want to become the most beautiful woman in the world. He would become Raquel Welch".<ref>Berumen, Frank Javier Garcia. (2014). Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films since the 1960s. NC: McFarland & Company.</ref>

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Welch in The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)

Her looks and fame led Playboy to dub her the "Most Desired Woman" of the 1970s. Welch presented at the Academy Awards ceremony several times during the 1970s due to her popularity.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Registration required</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She accepted the Best Supporting Actress Oscar on behalf of fellow actress Goldie Hawn when Hawn could not be there to accept it.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link Alternate Link Template:Webarchive (Accessed February 16, 2023)</ref>

On April 26, 1970, CBS released her television special Raquel!<ref name="HBJ">Template:Cite book</ref> On the day of the premiere, the show received a 51 percent share on the National ARB Ratings and an overnight New York Nielsen rating of 58 percent share.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Also that year Welch starred in The Beloved with co-star Richard Johnson, which she co-produced and filmed in Cyprus.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1971, Welch had the title role in Hannie Caulder, a Western produced by Tigon and Curtwel, which was shot in Spain. Welch was one of the few actresses, and one of the earliest, who had a lead role in a Western film. Hannie Caulder was a significant influence on later revenge films,<ref>Film Society Lincoln Center. (2015). Hannie Caulder. Template:Webarchive Retrieved August 5, 2015.</ref> with director Quentin Tarantino citing it as an inspiration for his 2003 film, Kill Bill: Volume 1.<ref>Peary, Gerald. (October 17, 2013). Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated. University Press of Mississippi, p. 119.</ref><ref>American Film. Hannie Caulder 1971. Template:Webarchive (October 29, 2013) Retrieved March 6, 2015.</ref>

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Welch in 1976

The following year, in 1972, Welch starred in Kansas City Bomber, in which she played a hardened derby star and single mother who tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom. Life magazine dubbed Welch the "hottest thing on wheels" for her role. The production of the film shut down for six weeks after Welch broke her wrist doing some of her own stunts.<ref>"Hottest Thing on Wheels" (June 2, 1972). Life, 72 (21), p. 48.</ref> In the interim, she flew to Budapest and filmed a cameo in Bluebeard opposite Richard Burton, and was photographed at a lavish party thrown by Burton for his then-wife Elizabeth Taylor's fortieth birthday, even though Taylor had specifically uninvited her.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Despite not being considered a critical success, Kansas City Bomber was noted for its depiction of gender relations in the early 1970s.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In a 2012 interview with GQ, Welch reflected on the roller derby world depicted in the film: "You have all those women out there, but the men in the front office are really running it. Which I thought was a really nice metaphor for the way a lot of women felt about their lives at that time."<ref name="Bale"/> Also in 1972, Welch reunited with Burt Reynolds for the detective film Fuzz.

In 1973, Welch acted in two films: The Last of Sheila and The Three Musketeers. The latter – for which she won a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Comedy – spawned a sequel, The Four Musketeers (1974). Welch was offered the title role in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), which earned an Oscar for its eventual star Ellen Burstyn; she also turned down the chance to play Honey Bruce in the biographical film Lenny (1974), a part that went to Valerie Perrine.<ref>Larry King Live, April 28, 2004</ref> In 1975, Welch appeared in The Wild Party<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and also performed a duet with Cher, singing "I'm a Woman" on an episode of The Cher Show.<ref name="Windolf-2023">Template:Cite news</ref> She then co-starred with Bill Cosby and Harvey Keitel in the action comedy Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976), directed by Peter Yates. Welch's character, promoted from Dispatcher to Emergency Medical Technician after threatening a sexual discrimination lawsuit, is an early example of feminism and equal pay for equal work as she breaks the "glass ceiling" doing a "man's work".

In 1977, Welch acted in the French film Animal, co-starring with Jean-Paul Belmondo. She also starred in the British swashbuckling adventure The Prince and the Pauper. Welch made a guest appearance on The Muppet Show in 1978,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> where she sang "I'm a Woman" with Miss Piggy.<ref name="Windolf-2023" /> The following year, Welch guest-starred as Captain Nirvana, an alien bounty hunter, in an episode of Mork & Mindy titled "Mork vs. the Necrotons".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

1980–2017: Subsequent projects and later years

Television

In 1982, Welch starred in the Western The Legend of Walks Far Woman for NBC.<ref name="Collins-1982">Template:Cite news</ref> Billed as her "first TV movie dramatic debut", Welch played a 19th-century Native American woman in Montana.<ref name="Collins-1982" /> In the summer of 1982, Welch was among the candidates considered for the role of Alexis Carrington on the ABC primetime drama Dynasty, along with Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren, before the producers settled on Joan Collins.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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Welch at the 39th Emmy Awards Governor's Ball in September 1987

In 1987, Welch starred in the television drama Right to Die, an "unglamorous" role in which she portrayed a college professor and mother of two stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease, and asks to die with dignity.<ref name="Buck-1987">Template:Cite news</ref>

Welch starred in the made-for-television films Scandal in a Small Town (1988), Trouble in Paradise (1989), and Torch Song (1993).<ref>Hanauer, Joan. (April 9, 1988). Raquel shows off her best assetTemplate:Sndher IQ. Template:Webarchive UPI. Retrieved August 7, 2018.</ref> In 1995, she was a guest star in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.<ref name="TV Guide-1995">Template:Cite news</ref> In the Season 2 episode "Top Copy", Welch played a television reporter and assassin who threatens to expose Clark's identity as Superman.<ref name="TV Guide-1995" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1996, Welch joined the cast of the night-time soap opera Central Park West, after CBS had already slated it for cancellation, as creator Darren Star made a final attempt to save the show by boosting its ratings late in its first season.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She was a guest star on the American comedy series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1997), playing Sabrina's flamboyant Aunt Vesta from the realm called the Pleasuredome.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Welch acted in the Season 8 finale of the comedy series Seinfeld, titled "The Summer of George" (1997), playing an exaggerated and highly temperamental version of herself.<ref name="Gettell-2023">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the episode, ranked by Zap2it as one of the top 10 episodes of Seinfeld, series character Kramer is forced to fire Welch from the lead role in a fictional Tony Award-winning musical called "Scarsdale Surprise", while the character Elaine gets into a "catfight" with her after a chance encounter on the street.<ref name="Gettell-2023" /> Entertainment Weekly wrote, "By delivering a pitch-perfect performance as a fire-breathing prima donna, Welch also poked fun at her reputation (fairly earned or not) for being difficult to work with."<ref name="Gettell-2023" />

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Welch in 2000

In 2002, Welch co-starred in the PBS series American Family, a story about a Mexican American family in East Los Angeles, with Edward James Olmos.<ref name="Navarro-2002">Template:Cite news</ref> Her role as Aunt Dora, the "drama queen of the family", marked the first time in her 40-year career that Welch had acknowledged her heritage as a Latina.<ref name="Navarro-2002" />

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Welch in 2010

In 2008, Welch appeared in Welcome to The Captain on CBS, playing a "sultry actress"; according to one critic, she was "spoofing herself".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She guest starred on CSI: Miami in 2012 and played Aunt Lucia in the 2013 Lifetime original movie House of Versace. In 2015, she portrayed Miss Sally May Anderson in the television drama The Ultimate Legacy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Welch played the mother-in-law of Barry Watson's character in a Canadian sitcom titled Date My Dad (2017) where she reunited with Robert Wagner on screen, five decades after starring together in The Biggest Bundle of Them All.<ref>Nolasco, Stephanie. (October 26, 2017). Raquel Welch talks working with Robert Wagner, meeting Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. Fox News. Retrieved October 28, 2017.</ref>

Film

Welch was due to star in a 1982 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, but was abruptly fired by the producers a few weeks into production. The studio claimed she was not living up to her contract, by refusing early-morning rehearsals, and was replaced with Debra Winger. Welch sued MGM for breach of contract.<ref>Robertson, Carol. (2012). The Little Book of Movie Law. Chicago: ABA Book Publishing, American Bar Association. "All About Eve: The Fickle Director and the Demanding Star – Welch v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co." Template:Webarchive</ref> Studio executives claimed in testimony the reason Welch was following through with the trial was that she was an actress over 40 and generally actresses in that age range cannot get roles any more. Welch's evidence at trial proved there was a conspiracy to falsely blame her for the film's budget problems and delays. The jury sided with Welch and she won a $10.8 million verdict against MGM in 1986.<ref>Modderno, Craig. (June 26, 1986). "Welch Celebrates Verdict Hollywood Cautious on Ruling's Impact" Template:Webarchive The Washington Post</ref><ref>Murphy, Kim. (June 25, 1986). "Raquel Welch Awarded $10.8 Million Over Firing" Los Angeles Times</ref>

Despite the win, Welch wished the whole episode never had happened. "I just wanted to clear my reputation and get back to my work, my work in movies", she said.<ref>AP (June 25, 1986). "Raquel Welch Wins $10.8 Million Judgment" Template:Webarchive. APnewsarchive.com.</ref> But she was blackballed by the industry and the incident affected her film career on the big screen from that moment on.<ref>Higgins, Bill. (December 10, 2015). "Hollywood Flashback: When Raquel Welch, Fired and Replaced by an Actress 15 Years Younger, Sued MGM (and Won)" Template:Webarchive Retrieved November 14, 2017, from The Hollywood Reporter</ref>

In 1994, Welch made a cameo appearance in [[Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult|Naked Gun Template:Frac: The Final Insult]], in the scene where Leslie Nielsen's character crashes the Academy Awards.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2001, she had a cameo in the comedy film Legally Blonde with Reese Witherspoon, playing a wealthy ex-wife in court.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Also that year, Welch appeared in Tortilla Soup, a family comedy-drama inspired by Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman, playing Hortensia, a domineering mother determined to marry the master chef who thinks he is losing his sense of smell and taste.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Welch starred in Forget About It (2006), a mobster comedy in which Burt Reynolds, Robert Loggia, and Charles Durning competed for her affection.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She played a single billionaire grandmother in the romantic comedy How to Be a Latin Lover (2017).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Stage

In December 1972, Welch made her nightclub debut at the Las Vegas Hilton;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> her act preceded Elvis Presley's.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Over the next decade, she took her nightclub act to other venues, and starred in television specials featuring her singing and dancing.<ref name="Collins-1982" /> She released the dance single "This Girl's Back In Town", which peaked at No. 29 on BillboardTemplate:'s dance club chart in 1988,<ref name="Billboard-1988">Billboard. Template:Cite magazine</ref> along with a music video.<ref name="Buck-1987" />

In December 1981, Welch starred on Broadway in Woman of the Year for two weeks, filling in for Lauren Bacall in the title role while Bacall was on vacation.<ref name="Collins-1982" /> Critics were so enthusiastic about Welch's performance, she was invited back to perform the role again for six months in 1982.<ref name="Collins-1982" />

In 1997, Welch starred on Broadway in Victor/Victoria, following Julie Andrews and Liza Minnelli in the title role. Theatre critic Jamie Portman wrote that her glamor made Welch "scarcely believable as the vulnerable Victoria and totally unbelievable as the swaggering tuxedoed Victor", but that she at least "earns high marks for valor" for attempting to breathe life into "the misbegotten musical version of Victor/Victoria".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Achievements and awards

In 1975, Welch won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy for The Three Musketeers. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the television drama Right to Die (1987).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1996, Welch received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2001, she was awarded the Imagen Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for her positive promotion of Americans of Latin heritage throughout her career.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2012, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presented a special retrospective of the films of Welch at the Walter Reade Theater.<ref>Bloomer, J. (January 17, 2012). Raquel Welch Retrospective Coming in February! Retrieved April 12, 2017, from Film Society of Lincoln Center. Template:Webarchive</ref>

Beauty and business career

The Raquel Welch Total Beauty and Fitness Program book and videos were first released in 1984. The book, written by Welch with photographs by André Weinfeld, includes a hatha yoga fitness program, her views on healthy living and nutrition, as well as beauty and personal style. The Multi-Platinum collection of Fitness and Yoga videos were produced and directed by André Weinfeld. As a businesswoman, Welch succeeded with her signature line of wigs. She also began a jewelry and skincare line, although neither of those ventures compared to the success of her wig collection HAIRuWEAR.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In January 2007, Welch was selected as the newest face of MAC Cosmetics Beauty Icon series. Her line features several limited-edition makeup shades in glossy black and tiger-print packaging. The tiger print motif of the collection celebrates Welch's feline and sensuous image: "strong and wild, yet sultry and exotic".<ref>MAC. (2007). Cosmetics Fetes Screen Siren Raquel Welch as the Newest MAC Beauty Icon Template:Webarchive. Retrieved August 5, 2015.</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Her personal beauty regime included abstinence from alcohol and tobacco; daily yoga; and moisturising with Bag Balm.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Personal life

Marriages and relationships

Welch married her high school sweetheart, James Welch, in Las Vegas on May 8, 1959. They had two children, Damon (born November 6, 1959) and Tahnee (born December 26, 1961). The couple separated in 1962 and divorced in 1964; she retained Welch's surname until her death in 2023.<ref name="Welch, Raquel 2010"/><ref name="caruso">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She married publicist Patrick Curtis in Paris on February 14, 1967, and they divorced on January 6, 1972.<ref name="Parraga"/> Curtis later claimed to the tabloids that Welch got an abortion during their marriage.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Spanish media reported that during the shooting of 100 Rifles in Spain in 1968, Welch, while married to Curtis, had a relationship with Spanish actor Sancho Gracia, who had a small role in the film, and that Welch's husband, upon finding out about the affair, chased Gracia at gunpoint through the hotel where they were staying in Aguadulce.<ref name="Parraga">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Pilar">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Romo">Template:Cite news</ref> Subsequent boyfriends included football player Joe Namath, producer Robert Evans and comedian Freddie Prinze.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Welch and André Weinfeld at the premiere of The Rose in 1979, a year before their marriage

On July 5, 1980, she married producer André Weinfeld in Cabo San Lucas.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In early February 1983, while vacationing in Mustique, Welch suffered a miscarriage three months into her pregnancy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her marriage to Weinfeld ended in August 1990.<ref name="caruso"/>

In 1996, after keeping a low romantic profile for several years, she dated former British boxing champion Gary Stretch, who was younger than both of Welch's children.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Welch wed Richie Palmer, co-owner of Mulberry Street Pizzeria, on July 17, 1999, at her home in Beverly Hills. Palmer, who had one son from a previous marriage, broke off his engagement with business partner and actress Cathy Moriarty to pursue Welch in October 1997.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The pair separated in August 2003 and divorced a year later.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2011, Welch told Elle magazine she would not remarry.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her last relationship of record, during the early-to-mid-2010s, was with American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Religion

Welch was Presbyterian, the religion of her childhood, and had said, "I remembered the wonderful sense of peace I'd felt when sitting under the protection and grace of my mother's faith." She was a faithful member of Calvary Presbyterian Church in Glendale, which she described as a "beautiful little church" where the people "weren't Hollywood types. They were modest, unassuming, cheerful and friendly. They welcomed me." Welch's faith helped her after the death of her mother, a devout Presbyterian, and her sister's recovery from cancer.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Public image

While her image in the 1960s was that of a torrid sex temptress, Welch's private life was quite different.<ref>Mills, Nancy. (December 20, 1978). "Raquel Welch: The Other Side of a Star" The Australian Women's Weekly, 23–25.</ref><ref>Raquel Welch takes Mr. Media Beyond the Cleavage! Podcast Interview. Template:Webarchive [Interview by Bob Andelman]. (December 16, 2010). In Mr. Media Interviews. Retrieved September 5, 2018.</ref><ref>Heslep, Michael. (April 3, 2010). Brain and Beauty, that is Raquel. Template:Webarchive CNN iReport . Retrieved July 5, 2018.</ref> Welch once famously said, "What I do on the screen is not to be equated with what I do in my private life. Privately, I am understated and dislike any hoopla."<ref>Strodder, Chris. (2007). The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s. CA: Santa Monica Press.</ref> She also admitted, "I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous, and fortunate misunderstanding."<ref>Birmingham, John. (September 3, 2018). Raquel Welch: A Life in Pictures. Template:Webarchive Purple Cover. Retrieved September 5, 2018.</ref>

Welch posed for Playboy in 1979, but she never did a fully nude shoot. Hugh Hefner later wrote, "Raquel Welch, one of the last of the classic sex symbols, came from the era when you could be considered the sexiest woman in the world without taking your clothes off. She declined to do complete nudity, and I yielded gracefully. The pictures prove her point."<ref>Hefner, Hugh M., & Cole, Gary. (2006). Playboy: The Celebrities. CA: Chronicle Books.</ref> Welch refused to take all her clothes off on screen or pose naked throughout her career spanning five decades, saying this was the way she was brought up.<ref>Sheldrick, Giles. (November 5, 2015). "Raquel Welch: Secret of Why I Never Revealed All on Screen" Daily Express.</ref>

Political views

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With Nancy Reagan at a state dinner in the White House in 1985.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

In 2014, during an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, Welch described herself as being on the conservative side, attributing it to her upbringing and mother's Midwestern values.<ref name="The O'Reilly Factor : FOXNEWSW">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2015 Welch attended a gathering for the Republican Jewish Coalition in Beverly Hills.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Welch supported the Vietnam War troops, appearing at United Service Organizations (USO) shows, often with Bob Hope.<ref name="The O'Reilly Factor : FOXNEWSW" />

Death

Welch died from cardiac arrest on February 15, 2023, at her home in Los Angeles. She was 82. At the time of her death, Welch was also suffering from Alzheimer's disease.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Legacy

Welch helped transform America's feminine ideal into its current state. Her beautiful looks and eroticism made her the definitive 1960s and 1970s sex icon, rather than the blonde bombshell of the late 1950s as typified by Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and others.<ref>Pulp International. (June 16, 2010). Share the Welch. Template:Webarchive Retrieved March 6, 2015.</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>D'Addario, Daniel. (February 7, 2012). Retrospective Body of Work: Screen Siren Raquel Welch Gets Her Lincoln Center Retrospective Raquel Welch Retrospective. Template:Webarchive Observer. Retrieved March 6, 2015.</ref> Welch became a star in the mid-1960s and was exotic, brunette, and smolderingly sexual.<ref>Mansour, David. (2005). From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, p. 522.</ref><ref>Lisanti, Tom & Paul, Louis. (2002). Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962–1973. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, p. 304.</ref><ref>Alchin, Linda. (2017). Raquel Welch Facts and Biography. Template:Webarchive Facts About. Retrieved October 5, 2017.</ref> Her countless publicity photos helped to popularize her image,<ref>Lewis, Richard Warren. (August 7, 2017). Screen Sirens of Hollywood: Raquel Welch. Template:Webarchive The Saturday Evening Post (Special Collector's Edition: The Golden Age of Hollywood). Retrieved June 2, 2018.</ref> dress style, and 1960s and 1970s fashion trends.<ref>Marain, Alexandre. (September 5, 2018). La Beauté Sauvage de Raquel Welch en 15 Clichés Vintage. Template:Webarchive Vogue. Retrieved September 28, 2018.</ref> Welch and other actresses also made big hair popular.<ref>Beauty Launchpad. (August 16, 2018). Hair Through History: 9Template:NbspHairstyles that Defined the 1960s. Template:Webarchive Retrieved October 22, 2018.</ref><ref>Gattis, Lacey. (May 16, 2011). The 15 Most Iconic Hairstyles of the 1960s: Raquel Welch's Mane. Template:Webarchive Popsugar. Retrieved October 30, 2018.</ref>

In popular culture

Welch is mentioned in the 1970 song "Raquel Welch" by Shel Silverstein<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and in the 1971 song, "One's on the Way" also written by Silverstein but made popular by Loretta Lynn. Welch is also mentioned in "Unknown Stuntman", the theme song to The Fall Guy, starring Lee Majors, who also recorded the song. She is also mentioned in the Al Jarreau song "Love Is Real" from the Grammy-winning 1980 album This Time, where Jarreau sings "Raquel and Redford are the tops".

In the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption, the poster that Andy Dufresne had on his prison cell wall that obscured his escape was the famous pinup image of Welch in One Million Years B.C..<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
1964	A House Is Not a Home	Polly's Girl		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Roustabout	College Girl	Uncredited	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1965	A Swingin' Summer	Jeri		<ref name="BFI"/>
1966	Fantastic Voyage	Cora Peterson	First film under contract to 20th Century Fox	<ref name="BFI"/>
	Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand	Tania Montini	Made in Italy for Joseph E. Levine	<ref name="BFI"/>
	Sex Quartet	Elena	Segment: "Fata Elena"; Also known as The Queens	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	One Million Years B.C.	Loana		<ref name="BFI"/>
1967	The Oldest Profession	Nini	Segment: "The Gay Nineties"	<ref name="BFI"/>
	Fathom	Fathom Harvill		<ref name="BFI"/>
	Bedazzled	Lust / Lilian Lust		<ref name="BFI"/>
1968	The Biggest Bundle of Them All	Juliana		<ref name="BFI"/>
	Bandolero!	Maria Stoner		<ref name="BFI"/>
	Lady in Cement	Kit Forrester		<ref name="BFI"/>
1969	100 Rifles	Sarita		<ref name="BFI"/>
	Flareup	Michele		<ref name="BFI"/>
	The Magic Christian	Priestess of the Whip		<ref name="BFI"/>
1970	Myra Breckinridge	Myra Breckinridge		<ref name="BFI"/>
1971	The Beloved	Elena	Also known as Sin and Restless	<ref name="BFI"/>
	Hannie Caulder	Hannie Caulder		<ref name="BFI"/>
1972	Fuzz	Det. Eileen McHenry		<ref name="BFI"/>
	Kansas City Bomber	K.C. Carr		<ref name="BFI"/>
	Bluebeard	Magdalena		<ref name="BFI"/>
1973	The Last of Sheila	Alice Wood		<ref name="BFI"/>
	The Three Musketeers	Constance Bonacieux	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	<ref name="BFI"/>
1974	The Four Musketeers	Constance Bonacieux		<ref name="BFI"/>
1975	The Wild Party	Queenie		<ref name="BFI"/>
1976	Mother, Jugs & Speed	Jennifer Jurgens a.k.a. "Jugs"		<ref name="BFI"/>
1977	The Prince and the Pauper	Lady Edith	Also known as Crossed Swords	<ref name="BFI"/>
	Animal	Jane Gardner	Also known as Stuntwoman	<ref name="BFI"/>
1994	[[Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult|Naked Gun Template:Frac: The Final Insult]]	Herself	Uncredited	<ref name="BFI"/>
1998	Chairman of the Board	Grace Kosik	Nominated: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	<ref name="BFI" />
	What I Did for Love	Jacqueline		<ref name="RT" />
1999	Get Bruce	Herself	Documentary	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2001	Legally Blonde	Mrs. Windham Vandermark		<ref name="BFI" />
	Tortilla Soup	Hortensia		<ref name="BFI" />
2006	Forget About It	Christine DeLee		<ref name="RT" />
2017	How to Be a Latin Lover	Celeste Birch	Final Film Role	<ref name="RT" />

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
1964–1965	The Hollywood Palace	Billboard Girl	Season one regular	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1964	The Virginian	Saloon Girl	Episode: "Ryker"	<ref>Template:Citation. Rotten Tomatoes.</ref>
	McHale's Navy	Lt. Wilson	Episode: "McHale, the Desk Commando"	<ref name="TVG"/>
	Bewitched	Stewardess	Episode: "Witch or Wife"	<ref name="RT"/>
	The Rogues	Miss France	Episode: "Hugger-Mugger, by the Sea"	<ref name="BFI"/>
1965	Wendy and Me	Lila Harrison	Episode: "Wendy Sails in the Sunset"	<ref>Template:Citation. Rotten Tomatoes</ref>
	The Baileys of Balboa	Beverly	Episode: "Sam and the Invisible Man"	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1970	Raquel!	Herself	Television Special	<ref name="TVG"/>
1971	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Guest Performer	Episode: "#5.1"	<ref name="RT"/>
1974	Really, Raquel	Herself	Television Special	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1976	Saturday Night Live	Host	Episode: "Raquel Welch/Phoebe Snow/John Sebastian"; Also known as NBC's Saturday Night	<ref name="RT"/>
1978	The Muppet Show	Herself	Episode: "Raquel Welch"	<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1979	Mork & Mindy	Captain Nirvana	Episode: "Mork vs. the Necrotons"	<ref name="RT"/>
1980	From Raquel with Love	Herself	Television Special	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1982	The Legend of Walks Far Woman	Walks Far Woman	Television film Bronze Wrangler for Fictional Television Drama	<ref name="BFI"/>
1987	Right to Die	Emily Bauer	Television film Nominated: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film	<ref name="BFI"/>
1988	Scandal in a Small Town	Leda Beth Vincent	Television film	<ref name="BFI"/>
1989	Trouble in Paradise	Rachel		<ref name="BFI"/>
1993	Torch Song	Paula Eastman		<ref name="BFI"/>
	Evening Shade	Cynthia Gibson	Episode: "Small Town Girl"	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby	Shelly Millstone	Voice, television special	citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
1994	Tainted Blood	Elizabeth Hayes	Television film	<ref name="BFI"/>
1995	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Diana Stride	Episode: "Top Copy"	<ref name="RT"/>
1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	La Madrasta	Voice, episode: "Cinderella"	<ref name="RT"/>
1996	Central Park West	Dianna Brock	Season 2 Regular; Also known as CPW	<ref name="TVG"/>
	Sabrina the Teenage Witch	Aunt Vesta	Episode: "Third Aunt from the Sun"	<ref name="RT"/>
1997	Seinfeld	Herself	Episode: "The Summer of George"	<ref name="RT"/>
1997–2000	Spin City	Abby Lassiter	3 episodes	<ref name="RT"/>
2002	American Family	Aunt Dora	Season 1 semi-regular	<ref name="RT"/>
	Jim Brown: All-American	Herself	Documentary	<ref name="BFI"/>
2004	8 Simple Rules	Jackie	Episode: "Vanity Unfair"	<ref name="RT"/>
2008	Welcome to The Captain	Charlene Van Ark	Series regular	<ref name="RT"/>
2012	CSI: Miami	Vina Navarro	Episode: "Rest in Pieces"	<ref name="RT"/>
2013	House of Versace	Aunt Lucia	Television film	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2015	The Ultimate Legacy	Miss Sally May Anderson		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2017	Date My Dad	Rosa	Recurring guest star	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1973–1974	Raquel and the World of Sid and Marty Krofft	Herself	Las Vegas Hilton<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Adapted into the television special Really Raquel
1981–1983	Woman of the Year	Tess Harding	Palace Theatre<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1995	The Millionairess	Epifania Ognisanti di Parerga	Alexandra Theatre<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1997	Victor/Victoria	Victoria Grant/Victor Grazinski	Marquis Theatre<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Selected discography

Album appearances

Year	Title	Album
1965	"I'm Ready to Groove"	A Swingin' Summer: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Singles

Year	Title	Peak chart positions
		US Dance
1988	"This Girl's Back in Town"	29<ref name="Billboard-1988" />

Books

• Raquel Welch: Raquel: The Raquel Welch Total Beauty and Fitness Program, Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (October 1, 1984), Template:ISBN
• Raquel Welch: Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage, Publisher: Weinstein Books (March 29, 2010), Template:ISBN

See also

• Fur bikini of Raquel Welch

External links

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