Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film 'One Million Years B.C.' would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and '70s, has died. She was 82.
NEW YORK -- Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film"One Million Years B.C." would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and '70s, has died. She was 82.
"I just thought it was a goofy dinosaur epic we'd be able to sweep under the carpet one day," she told The Associated Press in 1981."Wrong. It turned out that I was the Bo Derek of the season, the lady in the loin cloth about whom everyone said, 'My God, what a bod' and they expected to disappear overnight."
by signing up you agree to our terms of service In addition to acting, Welch was a singer and dancer. She surprised many critics -- and won positive reviews -- when she starred in the 1981 musical"Woman of the Year" on Broadway, replacing a vacationing Lauren Bacall. She returned to the Great White Way in 1997 in"Victor/Victoria."
"The irony of it all is that even though people thought of me as a sex symbol, in reality I was a single mother of two small children!" she wrote in her autobiography,"Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage."
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