Video: The secret of the youth of the star of the movie "Million Years BC": Raquel Welch is 80, and she is still beautiful
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As incredible as it sounds, September 5 Raquel Welch 80 years old! Of course, for a star of this magnitude and a woman of such incomparable beauty, this is a date worth celebrating. Raquel was admired during her golden years. The most amazing thing is that the actress has retained her beauty even at such a respectable age. What is the secret of her youthfulness and attractiveness? What aspects of Welch's life and career have remained outside the tabloids? Jo Raquel Tejada was born in Chicago in 1940. She originally wanted to build a career in dancing. The obstacle on the way to this dream was the legendary figure of Raquel! Welch worked hard in this field until the age of seventeen. Teacher Raquel at one point destroyed all the girl's dreams, saying that for ballet she had a completely unsuitable physique and she had no future in this area.
After that, Raquel was waiting for a whole series of triumphs at various beauty contests. A prominent beauty with stunning shapes was quickly noticed. The girl began to work on television. She has not yet had any film roles, she became a host in a program about the weather. Raquel soon married James Welch, whom she had known since high school. The couple had two children in marriage - Tanya (who followed in the footsteps of her mother and is now an actress herself) and Damon.
Hollywood was only a matter of time. The bright light of his spotlights beckoned and attracted. The marriage of the future star fell apart pretty quickly. In 1963, she decided to travel to Los Angeles with her children. The very next year she made her film debut, starring in the film "Home is Not Home" with Shelley Winters. Elvis' film Roustabout soon followed. By this time, she had met Patrick Curtis, her manager and second husband.
Curtis advised her to keep the name Welch, which was consonant with the name Raquel. She abandoned the use of the name Joe at an early age. “I think that if you have a mixed Anglo-Saxon and Latin American descent, then the Latin side will invariably win,” the star said in one of her interviews. "It is something in your temperament and in your very essence." The actress's father, Armando, was from Bolivia. Mother, Josephine, was white. She gave Raquel her last name.
Raquel Welch's first major film work was the classic 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage. Swimming in a tight-fitting, seductive body jumpsuit made a splash! In the same year, Welch played one of her most memorable roles - the queen of the caves Loanu in "Million Years BC". This role brought the actress worldwide fame. Ray Harrihausen has created amazing animated dinosaurs, but only Raquel has become the real star of this prehistoric adventure. The film was also released before Fantastic Voyage, further boosting Welch's popularity.
Raquel's unforgettable image in a fur swimsuit completely captured the imagination of the public. In an interview with Dick Cavett in 1972, Raquel said she was more than aware of why some viewers loved the film so much. Raquel joked about her role in Million BC throughout the show, which has always been dominated by men.
Even decades after the release of this tape on the screens, Welch is regularly asked for autographs on these advertising photos, where the star is so sparsely dressed. For Raquel, the main thing is to remember where she started. “I remember James Stewart telling me a long time ago to never avoid my fans or what those fans like about me,” she said. “That was very good advice,” added the unfading star.
Raquel has had many bright, memorable films. For example, such as the spy movie "The Essence" and the comedy of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore "Blinded". The pictures solidified Welch's acting reputation. Then there were works in the films "Lady in Cement" with Frank Sinatra in 1968 and "Mira Breckinridge" (1970), based on the social satire of the author Gore Vidal. Raquel then starred in the drama Beloved, also known as Sin or The Restless. A rare behind-the-scenes photo from Terry O'Neill's production is on display in London. In the seventies, Welch starred in the western "Hannie Calder" (1971). She then played Constance Bonacier in the Richard Lester series The Three Musketeers.
The star's last film to date is the 2017 film How to Be a Latin Lover. On television, Raquel starred in the 2013 House of Versace. The actress even managed to star in a musical.
Raquel made headlines frequently due to her complex nature. She herself says about it this way: “I had to be tough to break through. But at some point in my life, I found myself behaving inappropriately. It was not at all what I needed. In the 1990s, on the sitcom Seinfeld, Raquel played herself as an aggressive, arrogant diva who attacks actors.
After breaking up with Patrick Curtis in 1972, Raquel married twice more. First, her chosen one was the actor, writer and director Andre Weinfeld, then Richard Palmer. The actress divorced the latter in 2004. The restless nature of this woman could not find happiness with any of them. She herself spoke of all her husbands with warmth, claiming that she had tender feelings for everyone at one time. Each time it seemed to her that she had finally met a person with whom she could live a long and happy life. Only all the time something went wrong.
A person as strong as Raquel has always found it very difficult to build relationships. She tried to play the game on her own terms. The men invariably disliked this. To free oneself from other people's influence and build such a brilliant career - this required remarkable courage from a fragile woman. Many considered Welch to be just an empty-headed beauty, but she proved to everyone that this is far from the case.
How does she now feel about her career in show business? “I'm just happy with my life,” says the actress. "I feel like I have lived a very wonderful, beautiful life." Happy Birthday to the real Hollywood icon - Raquel Welch!
If you are interested in the stars of Hollywood's golden age, read about another stunning actress in our article. the star of "Gone With the Wind" passed away at 105: which broke the heart of the magnificent Olivia de Havilland.
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