Actress Raquel Welch has passed away
The American actress Raquel Welch, star of the seaside movies that showed her in a swimsuit, making her a sex object legend, died at the age of 82 years.
The announcement of the disappearance, which occurred this morning after a short illness, was released by the chatter site “TMZ”, which learned the news from family members .
Raquel Welch, pseudonym of Jo Raquel Tejada, born in Chicago on September 5, 1940, is considered one of the sex object divas of the Hollywood movie theater between the Sixties and Seventies.
The actress has also managed to be appreciated as an interpreter in intense or dramatic roles, obtaining two Golden Globe elections and winning him as best actress in a comedy movie for the role of Costanza Bonacieux in film ‘The Three Musketeers’ (1973) directed by Richard Lester, with an all-star cast that included Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed , Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee and Faye Dunaway
Given the success of the film, in 1974 Welch played the part again in the follow up “Milady”, again directed by Lester. In the following years the actress starred in “Wild Party” (1975) by James Ivory, “The Prince and the Pauper” (1977 ) by Richard Fleischer and “The Animal” (1977) by Claude Zidi, alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo
In 1987 she obtained the second election for the Golden Globe as best actress in a mini-series or movie for television with “When to die” by Paul Wendkos , this time without winning the prize.
The debut of the sixties
Welch made his debut at the age of 24, in 1964, in the movie “Madame P. and the take legal action against girls” by Russell Rouse with Shelley Winters and Robert Taylor, and opposite Elvis Presley in “The Carnival Singer” by John Rich
After some television experiences, acting in ep isodi in the telefilms “The Virginian” and “Bewitched”, also from 1964, entered the imagination of the generations of the Sixties for the role of the buxom Loana in “One million years ago” by Don Chaffey
Poster for Twentieth Century Fox’s “A Million Years Ago” (1966) starring Raquel Welch.
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The The movie’s poster, released in 1966, with a close-up of the actress in provocative leather swimwear, became a cult favorite and Welch was immediately established as a sex object, further enhanced by the take legal action against appearances in “Fathom: beautiful, intrepid and spy” (1967) by Leslie H. Martinson, opposite advertisement Anthony Franciosa, and “My a my the devil” (1967) by Stanley Donen, starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook
Also in 1966 starred in the successful sci-fi movie “Bright Journey” by Richard Fleischer, starring Stephen Boyd, playing the only female character.
A career full of movies of different genres
The irrepressible beauty of the actress, which however with peace also became her limit, and her notoriety soon led her to face various cinematographic genres: comedy, like “Shoot strength, plus specialty… I don’t get it!” (1966) by Eduardo De Filippo, “The fairies” (1966) by Mauro Bolognini and “Colpo grosso alla napoletana” (1968) by Ken Annakin, the detective story, such as ” The Lady in the Concrete” (1968) by Gordon Douglas and “The Dead Man” (1969) by James Neilson, and the western, in which stand out “Bandolero!” (1968) by Andrew V. McLaglen, where he joined Dean Martin and James Stewart, and “The Texan and the Penance Brothers” (1971) by Burt Kennedy
In 1970 Welch was cast in the controversial movie “The Myra Breckinridge Case” by Michael Sarne, alongside, among others, Mae West, John Huston and Farrah Fawcett In 1972 he starred in the grotesque “… and everything in small notes” by Richard A. Colla, paired with Burt Reynolds, and in “Bluebeard” by Edward Dmytryk, starring Richard Burton SDA source
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