2023-02-16 08:00:00
Hollywood sex symbol actress Raquel Welch is best known for “ One million years BC. » et « The three Musketeers ».
Raquel Welch, the award-winning actress and Hollywood sex symbol, has died aged 82. His manager confirmed the news to Variety.
In a statement to People Magazine, his manager added that Welch “ passed away peacefully early this morning after a brief illness. Her career spanned over 50 years, starring in over 30 films and 50 series and television appearances. The Golden Globe winner, in recent years, was involved in a very successful line of wigs. Raquel leaves behind two children, son Damon Welch and daughter Tahnee Welch. »
In 1966, after a few years playing small roles in TV shows like MA beloved witchWelch’s fame skyrocketed when she appeared in One million years BC in a furry bikini. The same year, she played in The Fantastic Journey, which makes her a Hollywood starlet. In fact, public interest in her became so great at the time that when she married her manager, Patrick Curtis, in Paris the following year, the couple had to delay the ceremony for 15 minutes while the police evacuated. a hundred paparazzi.
Continuing his streak of success, Welch won a Golden Globe for playing Constance in the adaptation of Three Musketeers by filmmaker Richard Lester in 1973. She was nominated for another for starring in the TV movie Right to Die, where she embodies, against the current, a woman suffering from Charcot’s disease who wishes euthanasia. In 1996, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Throughout her career, Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada in 1940) carried the immense burden of being a sex symbol. Even the New York Times, in 1966, reported on his height and measurements in an article titled ” Alright, alright, but can she act? In 1975, she told talk show host Geraldo that she originally embraced her on-screen sexuality to challenge her father, who was strict and preferred her to study Shakespeare. She also analyzed the description of “ sex goddess » : « When you have a label, the problem isn’t changing the label… it’s trying to move away from it left, right, top or bottom, that’s itshe said. It’s like a leash. You want a little more freedom to play with. I’m not trying to say, ‘Hey, I’m a real person…’ All I know is that I’m an actress. I like my job. I take it seriously when I’m working, but the rest of the time I really enjoy being myself. »
Over the years, Welch has appeared in box office hits, parodies and television series (a memorable cameo in Seinfeld and her last role, that of Rosa in Date My Dad). She even performed her own stunts playing a roller derby star in Kansas City Bomberappeared in westerns and had roles on Broadway, including replacing Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria. Away from the spotlight, Welch leads what she considers to be a fairly normal life. By the time she became famous, she was divorced (her marriage to James Welch ended in 1964) and mother of two children. After Curtis, she married twice more and divorced her last husband, Richard Palmer, in 2004.
« [Le fait que je sois mère] was one of the things I wanted people to know about meWelch said in a 2010 interview. I think they thought I was a scatterbrained girl with nice tits and they bet everything on it. It wasn’t my idea at all, but it became Hollywood’s idea of me. Sometimes, when you are in the world of cinema, commerce and the public, you cannot always choose the path that you necessarily want. »
Kory Grow
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