LOS ANGELES - Raquel Welch, the US actress who became an international sex symbol after appearing in a deerskin bikini in One Million Years BC, died on Wednesday, her manager said. She was 82. Welch’s manager said in an emailed statement to AFP that she had died...
The same year she had a leading role in One Million Years BC, a fantasy film famous mainly for Welch’s bikini-clad cavewoman.She would later struggle 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.”
She continued to act in major films, starring in Hollywood’s first interracial sex scene with Jim Brown in 100 Rifles, and as a transgender heroine in the explicit Myra Breckinridge . She won the Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical for The Three Musketeers , in which she plays the queen’s dressmaker.
While filming Cannery Row in 1982, Welch was fired for insisting on doing her hair and make-up at home. She sued MGM studios for breach of contract, ultimately winning a US$15 million settlement. Raquel Welch RIP 😔😔 Sharing one of my favorite photos, taken with a disposable camera I brought specifically to take this at the wrap party for the TV show"American Family" in LA at circa 2004. Raquel Welch played Aunt Dora. Yes, that's a mojito, but I was naturally giddy!❤️
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