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Raquel Welch, who has died aged 82, had only three lines as Loana in the 1966 film fantasy One Million Years BC but attained sex-symbol status from the role, in which she was dressed in a fur-lined bikini. The image made its imprint in popular culture and the publicity poster sold millions. The feminist critic Camille Paglia described the American actor’s depiction as “a lioness – fierce, passionate and dangerously physical”.

The tale of cavepeople coexisting with dinosaurs was Welch’s breakthrough film – and the beginning of a largely unsuccessful battle she waged to be taken seriously as an actor. When she arrived on set, she told the director, Don Chaffey, she had been thinking about her scene. She recalled his response as: “Thinking? What do you mean you’ve been thinking? Just run from this rock to that rock – that’s all we need from you.”

Ursula Andress, who had emerged from the sea in another famous bikini for the 1962 James Bond film Dr No, had turned down the role of Loana. It went to Welch, on contract to 20th Century Fox, when the American studio agreed to hire her out to the British company Hammer Films.

Welch had to contend with critics who believed her looks to count for more than any acting ability she possessed. It was true that the film was pure kitsch and noteworthy only for Ray Harryhausen’s remarkable special effects with stop-motion animation creatures – and for making Welch a star.

Nevertheless, Welch later showed her aptitude for comedy when she played Constance, the French queen’s married seamstress in love with Michael York’s D’Artagnan, in the 1973 swashbuckler The Three Musketeers, directed by Richard Lester. The performance won her a Golden Globe best actress award and she reprised the part in The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge (1974).

She increasingly took roles on television and worked up an act as a nightclub singer that she took across the US. She showed her performing mettle when she made her Broadway stage debut, taking over from Lauren Bacall in the musical Woman of the Year at the Palace theatre (1981-83). In an updating of the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy 1942 movie of the same title, she gave a show-stopping performance as the TV news personality Tess Harding.

“When she makes her first appearance in a low-cut gold lamé gown, her attributes can be seen all the way to the mezzanine,” wrote the New York Times critic Mel Gussow, unable to ignore what Welch brought to the stage visually. “It would be inaccurate to say that Miss Welch is a better actress than Miss Bacall, but certainly at this stage of her career she is a more animated musical personality.”

Around that time, Welch said: “I have exploited being a sex symbol and I have been exploited as one. I wasn’t unhappy with the sex goddess label. I was unhappy with the way some people tried to diminish, demean and trivialise anything I did professionally. But I didn’t feel that from the public.”

She was born Jo-Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois, the first of three children, to Josephine (nee Hall) and Armando Tejada. Her father, an aeronautical engineer, was Bolivian. When Raquel was two, the family moved to San Diego, California, and, five years later, she joined the city’s junior theatre, attached to the city’s Old Globe, as well as starting ballet classes.

She said her father was volatile and terrifying, and she never saw any tenderness between her parents. One escape from this unsettled childhood came through putting on plays in the garage for friends and neighbours, using bedspreads for curtains.

On leaving La Jolla high school, San Diego, in 1958, she won a scholarship to study theatre arts at San Diego state college, but dropped out after a year to marry James Welch and became a weather presenter on KFMB, a San Diego television station.

After giving birth to two children, Damon and Tahnee, she left her husband, intending to follow her acting ambitions in New York. In the event, she worked as a model and cocktail waiter in Dallas, Texas, before moving to Los Angeles.

She was screen-tested by the producer Cubby Broccoli, who had seen her in a Life magazine photo-spread, for a part in the 1965 Bond film Thunderball, and signed up by 20th Century Fox. But a technicality involving start dates and contract options ruled out the Bond film and she was cast in Fantastic Voyage (1966), a big-budget sci-fi submarine saga, clad in a wetsuit.

After One Million Years BC, Welch – again in a bikini – played Lilian Lust, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, alongside Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in Bedazzled (1967), a comedy irreverently resetting the Faust legend in 1960s swinging London.

Burt Reynolds and Jim Brown were the stars when she brandished a shotgun in the 1969 western 100 Rifles – another action role. But Welch made clear to the director, Tom Gries, that she would not be following his instruction to run naked through the desert with the weapon. She also disregarded attempts to get her to shower under a water tower minus her shirt.

She returned to comedy for the satire The Magic Christian (1969) to play Priestess of the Whip alongside Peter Sellers’s millionaire who adopts the homeless Ringo Starr. She took top billing in Myra Breckinridge (1970), as a transgender movie critic, in a misjudged adaptation of Gore Vidal’s landmark novel.

Welch had the chance to shine in The Wild Party (1975), a period drama about the demise of silent pictures from the producer-director partnership of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, in which she was cast as Queenie, the lover of a fading screen comedian. But she fell out with Ivory over a number of issues, for example refusing to do a bedroom scene nude. “From nearly the first day, we were at loggerheads,” he recalled, “and no professional relationship, no working relationship, was ever established.”

Switching to television brought Welch cameos in everything from the sitcoms Mork & Mindy (in 1979, as a villain from outer space) and Evening Shade (1993) to Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (in 1995) and CSI: Miami (in 2012). She also comically played a temperamental version of herself attacking Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards) and Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) in a 1997 episode of Seinfeld.

She had a regular role in the comedy-drama series Date My Dad (2017) as Rosa, former mother-in-law of Ricky (Barry Watson), trying with his three children to find him love again following the death of his wife.

In 1997, there was another stint on Broadway, in the musical Victor/Victoria. She replaced Julie Andrews, who was undergoing throat surgery, for the final seven weeks of its run at the Marquis theatre. Variety described Welch as “at best a pleasantly passable singer”, suiting “the costumes better than she does the vocal and acting requirements”.

She returned to the cinema with a cameo role in the romcom Legally Blonde (2001), starring Reese Witherspoon. Her last film was How to Be a Latin Lover (2017).

Welch was married and divorced four times. She is survived by Damon and Tahnee, and by her brother, Jimmy.

🔔 Raquel Welch (Jo-Raquel Tejada), actor, born 5 September 1940; died 15 February 2023

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RIP Raquel Welch 🖤🖤🖤

Hollywood actress Raquel Welch has died following a brief illness aged 82. She was best known for her roles in Legally Blonde, The Three Musketeers and One Million Years BC. Welch quickly rose to fame in the 1960s and became one of the most sought-after actresses in the industry. She also won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her 1974 role in The Three Musketeers. Welch was married four times in her life and has two Children. February 15 2023

Jo Raquek Tejada dite Raquel Welch de père bolivien et de mère américaine. On a pu la voir dans Un Million d'année avant J.C L' Animal Les 3 Mousquetaires Les 100 Fusils

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Raquel Welch (Jo Raquel Tejada) in ''La Bande à César'', 1968.

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Farewell, Raquel (Born Jo Raquel Tejada, September 5, 1940)

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“Welch was a strong, powerful personality, who didn’t simper or blush but looked permanently amused, as if she could eat any of her admirers for breakfast … But like so many performers stuck with the “sex symbol” job description, Welch had a gift for comedy which was sometimes indulged and sometimes not … Her celebrity in the 1970s was colossal and it’s a pity that no filmmaker could quite bring out of her that combination of drollery and brassy physical strength that could well have produced a tremendous comedy. But she was an icon: a sexy warrior who was more than a match for human or dinosaur.” 

/ From Peter Bradshaw’s obituary for Raquel Welch in The Guardian / 

Farewell to a true glamazon! Considering she was 82, isn’t it weird how unexpected the death of Raquel Welch (née Jo Raquel Tejada, 5 September 1940 - 15 February 2023) feels? Off the top of my head, I admire her deadpan comedic performances in the James Bond spoof Fathom (1967), the adaptation of Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckenridge (1970) - sure, it’s messy and problematic but you can’t fault Welch’s gutsy commitment as the titular character - and The Three Musketeers (1973) and its sequel The Four Musketeers (1974). (I really need to re-visit The Last of Sheila and Kansas City Bomber (both 1972)). I watched her wild song-and-dance TV special From Raquel with Love (1980) recently on YouTube – a mind-boggling camp spectacle. I also love how later in life Welch reinvented herself as the proprietress of her own high-end wig line! (Bradshaw’s reference to “dinosaur” above of course means Welch’s breakout role as a sexy cave girl in One Million Years BC! (1966)!).

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Rest in Peace Jo Raquel Welch (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023)

“Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.” -- Raquel Welch

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Jo Raquel Welch (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) Stage, film and television actress and singer.  

Through her portrayal of strong female characters, which helped in her breaking the mold of the traditional sex symbol, Welch developed a unique film persona that made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s.

Known primarily for her film work she also appeared in many television productions.   She was cast in 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.

On April 26, 1970, CBS released her television special Raquel!. On the day of the premiere, the show received a 51% share on the National ARB Ratings and an overnight New York Nielsen rating of 58% share.

In 1978, Welch appeared in an episode of The Muppet Show.

In 1979, for the series Mork & Mindy, Welch was featured as an alien bounty hunter pursuing Robin Williams in "Mork vs. the Necrotons".

In 1982, Welch acted in the Western television film The Legend of Walks Far Woman.

She appeared in the night-time soap opera Central Park West (1995).

As a guest, she played Sabrina's flamboyant Aunt Vesta on the American comedy series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996).

In 2008 she was a regular in the television series  Welcome to The Captain.  (Wikipedia)

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Jo Raquel Tejada aka Raquel Welch (1940-2023)

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Jo Raquel Welch (née  Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023)

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05 September 1940 – 15 February 2023

Jo Raquel Tejada Welch

Raquel Welch (née Tejada;) was an American actress. Welch first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she won a 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 she had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became best-selling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970) and Hannie Caulder (1971). She made several television variety specials.

Through her portrayal of strong female characters, which helped in her breaking 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.[2][3][4] She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974 for her performance in The Three Musketeers. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Television Film for her performance in the film Right to Die (1987). In 1995, Welch was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History". Playboy ranked Welch No. 3 on their "100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century" list.

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WHEN RAQUEL WELCH AUDITIONED FOR THE ROLE OF MARY ANN ON GILLIGAN'S ISLAND

Actress RAQUEL WELCH, known for her role in the 1966 British fantasy adventure film "One Million Years BC", has passed away at the age of 82. Family members confirmed to TMZ that Raquel had died after a short illness. Her manager also confirmed her death, stating that she passed away peacefully after "a brief illness".

Born Jo-Raquel Tejada in Chicago in 1940 to a Bolivian father and an American mother, Raquel rose to fame and sex symbol status in the 1960s. She became an international icon after appearing in a deerskin bikini in "One Million Years BC". While the film received mediocre reviews, Welch's cavewoman image on its poster became part of cinema history. Raquel went on to star in more than 30 films, including "Fantastic Voyage" and "The Three Musketeers", as well as some 50 television series in a career spanning five decades.

In a rare recent interview with the Scottish Sunday Post in 2017, Raquel discussed how her two 1966 hits "made a huge difference to my career. Overnight, I found myself in demand. Before that, I was not much more than an extra." Subsequent major roles included the title role in "Myra Breckinridge" (1970) and a key part in "The Three Musketeers" (1973) and "The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge" (1974). She also had a memorable cameo on the TV sitcom "Seinfeld", in the episode "The Summer of George" (1997).

Raquel was not only known for her acting career but also for her beauty and fitness program. In 1984, she launched her Total Beauty and Fitness program, and in later years, she developed her own line of wigs, hair pieces and hair extensions.

Throughout her career, Raquel was often asked about the deerskin bikini she wore in "One Million Years BC". She stated that she did not mind being widely known for it, saying "I'm often asked if I get sick of talking about that bikini. But the truth is, I don't. It was a major event in my life so why not talk about it?" However, she also discussed how hard it was to avoid being typecast, writing in her 2010 autobiography "Beyond the Cleavage" that "all else would be eclipsed by this bigger-than-life sex symbol".

Raquel's impact on the film industry was significant, having starred in Hollywood's first interracial sex scene with Jim Brown in "100 Rifles" and playing a transgender heroine in the explicit "Myra Breckinridge" in 1970. She won the Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical for "The Three Musketeers" in 1973, in which she played the queen's dressmaker.

Raquel was proud to acknowledge her Latino roots, stating in a 2002 interview with the New York Times, "I'm happy to acknowledge it and it's long overdue and it's very welcome. There's been kind of an empty place here in my heart and also in my work for a long, long time." Raquel is survived by her son Damon Welch and her daughter Tahnee Welch.

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Raquel Welch, Actress and ’60s Sex Symbol, Is Dead at 82

Beginning with a doeskin bikini in “One Million Years B.C.,” she built a celebrated show business career around sex appeal and, sometimes, a comic touch.

When Playboy in 1998 named the 100 sexiest female stars of the 20th century, Raquel Welch came in third, after Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.  Credit... Sunset Boulevard/Corbis, via Getty Images

By Anita Gates

Feb. 15, 2023

Raquel Welch, the voluptuous movie actress who became the 1960s’ first major American sex symbol and maintained that image for a half-century in show business, died on Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 82.

Her death was confirmed by her son, Damon Welch. No cause was given.

Ms. Welch’s Hollywood success began as much with a poster as with the film it publicized. Starring in “One Million Years B.C.” (1966) as a Pleistocene-era cave woman, she posed in a rocky prehistoric landscape, wearing a tattered doeskin bikini, and grabbed the spotlight by the throat with her defiant, alert-to-everything, take-no-prisoners stance and her dancer’s body. She was 26. It had been four years since Marilyn Monroe’s death, and the industry needed a goddess.

Camille Paglia, the feminist critic, described the poster photograph as “the indelible image of a woman as queen of nature.” Ms. Welch, she went on, was “a lioness — fierce, passionate and dangerously physical.”

When Playboy in 1998 named the 100 sexiest female stars of the 20th century, Ms. Welch came in third — right after Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. Brigitte Bardot was fourth.

The critics were often unkind. Throughout her career, Ms. Welch was publicly admired more for her anatomy than for her dramatic abilities. She even called her 2010 book, a memoir and self-help guide, “Beyond the Cleavage.”

But when she had a chance to show off her comic abilities, they were kinder. Ms. Welch won a Golden Globe for her role in Richard Lester’s 1973 adaptation of “The Three Musketeers”; her character was a hopelessly klutzy 17th-century Frenchwoman, torn between two lives — as a landlord’s wife and the queen’s seamstress.

Despite a career based largely on sex appeal, Ms. Welch repeatedly refused to appear nude onscreen. “Personally, I always hated feeling so exposed and vulnerable” in love scenes, she wrote in her memoir, noting that even when she appeared in a prestigious Merchant Ivory film (“The Wild Party,” 1975), the filmmakers, those acclaimed arbiters of art-house taste, pressured her to do a nude bedroom scene, to no avail.

“I’ve definitely used my body and sex appeal to advantage in my work, but always within limits,” she said. But, she added, “I reserve some things for my private life, and they are not for sale.”

Jo-Raquel Tejada was born in Chicago on Sept. 5, 1940, the oldest of three children of Armando Carlos Tejada, a Bolivian-born aeronautical engineer, and Josephine Sarah (Hall) Tejada, an American of English descent. They had met as students at the University of Illinois.

When Raquel was 2, the family moved to Southern California for her father’s work in the war effort. At 7, encouraged by her mother, she enrolled at San Diego Junior Theater, where her only early disappointment was being cast in her first play as a boy. She began ballet classes the same year and continued to study dance for a decade.

After graduating from La Jolla High School in San Diego, where her nickname was Rocky, she received a scholarship — thanks to success in local beauty pageants — to study theater at San Diego State College. But she dropped out at 19 to marry her high school boyfriend, James Wesley Welch. Because of her local celebrity, she landed a job as the “weather girl” on KFMB, a San Diego television station.

The birth of her two children complicated her career plans, but she soon left her husband — “the most painful decision of my entire life,” she called it — and moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. (They divorced in 1964.)

She had hoped to move to New York instead, she recalled. But the trip would have been prohibitively expensive, and, anyway, she didn’t own a winter coat.

It was not long before she had a contract with a major studio, 20th Century Fox. She had early hopes of making her big-screen debut in a James Bond movie; the producer Albert R. Broccoli wanted her for “Thunderball.” But that dream was quashed when she was cast in “Fantastic Voyage” (1966), a science fiction film about scientists reduced to microscopic size to travel inside a diseased human body. Then came “One Million Years B.C.,” and that did it.

“There’s a certain thing about that white-hot moment of first fame that is just pure pain,” Ms. Welch said in an interview with Cigar Aficionado magazine in 2001. “It’s just not comfortable. I felt like I was supposed to be perfect. And because everybody was looking at me so hard, I felt there was so much to prove.”

She appeared in some two dozen films over the next decade, perhaps most notably “Myra Breckinridge” (1970), based on Gore Vidal’s campy novel, in which she played a glamorous transgender woman, and “The Last of Sheila” (1973), a semi-campy murder mystery with a luxury-yacht setting and a script by Stephen Sondheim.

Some of her most memorable roles were small ones. In “Bedazzled” (1967), Stanley Donen’s Faustian fantasy with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, she played Lust, one of the Seven Deadly Sins; in “The Magic Christian” (1969), with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, her character’s name was Mistress of the Whip.

Ms. Welch had love scenes with the former football star Jim Brown in “100 Rifles” (1969), a western set in Mexico. She followed “The Three Musketeers” with its 1974 sequel, but those films never led to the sophisticated comedy opportunities she had hoped for. (She did, however, have a memorable chance to display her comedic side years later, when she played herself in a 1997 episode of “Seinfeld.”)

After “Mother, Jugs and Speed” (1976), a farce about ambulance drivers (which also starred Bill Cosby and Harvey Keitel), her screen acting was limited mostly to television guest appearances.

But she had already discovered the joys of stage work. Inspired after seeing Frank Sinatra’s nightclub act, Ms. Welch made her club debut, singing and dancing, at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1973. Eight years later she made her Broadway debut, hired as a two-week vacation replacement for Lauren Bacall in the hit musical “Woman of the Year.” Her reviews were so admiring (Mel Gussow’s in The New York Times ended by writing, “One hopes that Miss Welch will soon find a musical of her own”) that she returned the next year for a six-month stint in the role.

“The first minute I stepped out on that stage and the people began applauding,” she told The Times later, “I just knew I’d beaten every bad rap that people had hung on me.” She returned to Broadway in 1997, replacing Julie Andrews for seven weeks in “Victor/Victoria.”

In 1987, Ms. Welch published “The Raquel Welch Total Beauty and Fitness Program,” which included exercises based on the principles of hatha yoga. She released a companion video with the same title.

Michael Levenson contributed reporting.

A correction was made on Feb. 15, 2023: An earlier version of this obituary misstated how much time elapsed between Marilyn Monroe’s death and the release of the movie “One Million Years B.C.” It was four years, not three.

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RIP RAQUEL WELCH

1940-2023

Raquel Welch was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was from Bolivia, and her mother was of English descent.  As a young actress, her first role was playing a call girl in 1964′s A House is Not a Home starring Shelley WInters, Robert Taylor, and Cesar Romero. Her first TV appearance aired that same year. 

During the 1960s, Welch soared to international fame as a sex symbol and pin-up model, disproving the popular opinion that only blondes could be sex symbols. 

“Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict. The mind is an erogenous zone.” ~ Raquel Welch

Although she never acted opposite Lucille Ball, her name did make its way into her sitcoms.  Welch was first mentioned in “Lucy Visits Jack Benny” (1968). The Carters take a vacation rental at Jack Benny’s Palm Springs home. Benny tells Harry that his room is more expensive but that it overlooks Raquel Welch’s patio. When he learns that she sunbathes every day, miserly Harry eagerly agrees to the extra expense. Welch had three films in release in 1968: The Biggest Bundle of Them All, Bandolero, and Lady in Cement. She was also a real-life resident of Palm Springs.  

In “Lucy and Johnny Carson” (1969), Harry plans to take Lucy and the kids to the taping of an educational TV panel show titled “The Origin of Money,” which Lucy says he drools over like he’s watching Raquel Welch take a bubble bath.

In April 1970 Welch hosted her own TV special “Raquel!” Her popularity led to her becoming one of the most mentioned people on television, especially on “Here’s Lucy.” 

In “Lucy the American Mother” (1970), Craig makes a film about Lucy. When she can't seem to act natural in front of the camera, Lucy suggests he get someone else to play his mother; someone like Raquel Welch, Carol Burnett, or Don Knotts.

In “Lucy Competes with Carol Burnett” (1970) ~ Carol and Lucy have a battle of wits to see who will win the Secretary Beautiful Pageant. 

CAROL (to Lucy): “Compared to you, Tiny Tim looks like Raquel Welch.”  

The two stars will again be mentioned In “Lucy and the Drum Contest” (1970), guest star Buddy Rich says he dreams about Raquel Welch. Listening to Craig play, he tells him to hit the cymbals harder. 

RICH: “You're not Tiny Tim tip-toeing through the tulips.”  

In “Lucy the Crusader” (1970), it is Craig’s 18th birthday. 

LUCY (about Craig's birthday present): “It's something you've always wanted.”  CRAIG: “Raquel Welch?”  

It turns out to be a stereo. 

In “Lucy and Carol Burnett aka The Unemployment Follies” (1971), Carol jokingly tells Lucy that 'Carol Krausmeyer' isn't her professional name when acting – it's Raquel Welch. She looks down at her bosom and says: 

CAROL: “Ok, someone let the air out.”

This joke refers to voluptuous Welch’s ample bosom. 

In “My Fair Buzzi” (1972), Harry tries to flatter the newly-transformed Annie Whipple (Ruth Buzzi) by saying his only regret is that he's already promised to Raquel Welch.  

LUCY & WELCH 

“Will The Real Mr. Sellers...” (1969) was a psuedo documentary telefilm about the making of Sellers feature The Magic Christian. Lucy and Raquel (who was also in The Magic Christian, with Ringo Starr, above), both had cameos as themselves, but not in the same scenes. 

“The AFI Tribute To Henry Fonda” (1978) ~ Lucy and Welch are both on hand to tribute Fonda. Welch never worked with Fonda. 

“Night of 100 Stars 2″ (1985) ~ Raquel Welch (above with then husband Andre Weinfeld) was joined by Lucille Ball, Lucie Arnaz, and 97 other luminaries on the stage of Radio City Music Hall. 

“The 61st Annual Academy Awards” (1989) ~ Raquel Welch was in the audience and Lucille Ball was a presenter, her final public appearance before her death. 

Raquel Welch continued acting into 2017. She died at age 82 after a short illness. She was married four times and had two children, including actress Tahnee Welch. 

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