LOS ANGELES — Actress Raquel Welch, who helped reshape the traditional image of the Hollywood sex symbol in an era when the movie industry was still overtly defining an idealised version of sensuality for mass consumption, died on Wednesday (Feb 15) at age 82. Her death following a brief illness was confirmed in a statement released by her Los Angeles-based...
Actress Raquel Welch poses at the 2014 Carousel of Hope Ball at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Oct 11, 2014. The event benefits the Barbara Davis Centre for Childhood Diabetes.LOS ANGELES — Actress Raquel Welch, who helped reshape the traditional image of the Hollywood sex symbol in an era when the movie industry was still overtly defining an idealised version of sensuality for mass consumption, died on Wednesday at age 82.
Her success in that film was followed by an iconic appearance later the same year in the prehistoric fantasy drama One Million Years B.C. depicting cavemen and women coexisting with dinosaurs. She won a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a musical or comedy for her performance in the 1973 swashbuckling romp The Three Musketeers.Her portrayal of strong, willful characters was credited with helping break down stereotypes at a time when the sexual revolution and changing attitudes toward gender roles converged to empower women on screen, even if their looks remained objectified.
In a 2010 memoir and self-help guide titled Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage, she wrote: "I've definitely used my body and sex appeal to advantage in my work, but always within limits." Her title role in the 1970 comedy film Myra Breckinridge, based on the Gore Vidal novel of the same name, stirred controversy around Welch's portrayal of a transgender woman who undergoes sex-change surgery and later forcibly sodomises a man with a strap-on dildo.The film, a box office flop lambasted by critics and disavowed by Vidal as "an awful joke," also featured John Huston, Mae West, Farrah Fawcett and Rex Reed, among others.
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