September 5: Happy Birthday Raquel Welch

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Raquel Welch is turning 77 today. She studied ballet as a girl and won a number of beauty pageants as a teenager. She was born Raquel Tejada, but used her first husband’s last name professionally, even after they divorced, to avoid being typecast as a Latina. She began working in film in the mid-sixties; one of her most famous early roles was in the 1966 version of One Million Years B.C., in which she had only three lines, but will always be remembered for her deerskin bikini costume.

Welch starred in over two dozen films from 1966-1977. She made several Westerns, including Bandolero! and Hannie Caulder, played a skydiver caught up in an espionage caper in Fathom, and starred with Frank Sinatra in Lady in Cement. She was a roller derby queen in Kansas City Bomber, a detective in an adaptation of Ed McBain’s Fuzz, and a beautiful actress in The Last of Sheila. One of her best roles was as Constance Bonacieux in Richard Lester’s two-film adaptation of The Three Musketeers, for which she won a Golden Globe.


Welch’s film career became very sporadic after 1977. She did a lot of television work, and received a second Golden Globe nomination for the TV movie Right to Die. Earlier this year, she returned to the big screen for the first time in over a decade in a supporting role in How to Be a Latin Lover.

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