Biography
American actress and leading Raquel Welch became a national sex symbol of the 60-70s. Her photos in a swimsuit made of deer leather, made on the filming of the film "Million Years BC", and then shown in the famous Ribbon "Escape from Schownka", gave the start of the model's brilliant career and allowed for a long time to be filmed in the works of leading directories.The actress filmography includes dozens of works, including the Constance of Bonashe in Kinolent "Three Musketeers: Pendants of the Queen", in 1974 awarded the Golden Globe award for the best female role.
Childhood and youth
Joe Raquel Tekhad, known to the public under the name Welch, was born on September 5, 1940 in Chicago. Father Carlos Armando, which took place from the Bolivian city of La Pas, worked as an aviation engineer and had a cousin nephew of the President of Lydia Gailer Tekhad. The mother called by Josephine Sarah was the daughter of the English architect Emery Stanford Hall and his wife Clara Louise Adams.
The childhood of the future actress passed in California San Diego, where parents moved in 1942. There, the girl attended classes in a ballet studio, and on Sundays went to the serve in the Presbyterian Church of Pacific Beach. So it lasted until the teacher said 17-year-old Raquel that her sports figure was not suitable for dancing.
Then the girl with an attractive appearance decided to try their own strength on beauty contests. Back in school years, Welch won the titles of Miss La Hoya and Miss San Diego, and then she was recognized as the first beauty of the state.
The sad event in the biography of the future actress was the divorce of the parents who upset her, but did not prevent her in 1958 to receive a diploma. For further training, Raquel chose the theater college of the State California University, where she first came out on the stage in the play "Ramona" on the work of the writer Helen Hunt Jackson.
In the youth, Welch worked the leading weather forecast on the KFMB television channel, a waitress in one of Dallas's restaurants, as well as a model in the department stores of the famous American company Neiman Marcus Group.
Films
The cinemaer actresses began in Los Angeles in 1963 with acquaintance with the Hollywood agent and producer Patrick Curtis. Together, the couple turned the young woman in the American sex symbol, first appeared on the screen in the music film John Richie "Worker for Hire" and the Russell Raus drama "to live in the house - does not mean living at home."
After these roles, the beginner actress was noticed and invited to the studio 20th Century Fox. There she took the first step to fame, appearing in the appearance of a member of the medical team in the screening of Roman Aizek Azimov "Fantastic Journey."
The next stage of the Creative Career Raquel was to participate in the film "Million Years BC." The role of the girl in a swimsuit made of deer skin brought actress world famous and made her dream of hundreds of thousands of men, including the artist Salvador Dali, who wrote a portrait of American beauty in 1965.
Embed from getty imagesFastened popularity provided Welch with work in Europe, where in 1966 she played with Marcello Mastroanni in the criminal drama "I do not understand", and then became the only American in the film crew of the French Comedy "Ancient Profession".
The frank outfits of the actress admired the most sophisticated viewer, but the Welch did not fully want to completely unfaste. In 1969, in Western called "One hundred rifles", Raquel managed to disguise his own body in a love stage with a partner Jim Brown, and then staged a war to the director, who offered her to completely undress for the filming of the episode in the shower.
Although Welch loved images of seductive beauties, which rightly include the heroine "Girls in Cement", "Wonderworker" and "Flashes", she wanted roles filled with a true character and drama. Such a character could become a transsexual from the comedy Michael Sarna "Mayra Brekinridge", but in the performance of Raquel the audience considered only charming and frivolous blonde.
Finally, in 1974, actresses managed to achieve a serious relationship from the public and critics. For the classical role of the Constance of Bonasse in the film "Three Musketeers: Queen Pendants" Welch received truly enthusiastic reviews, supported by the prestigious film "Golden Globe".
This award remained the only celebrity in the piggy bank. Subsequent films where Welch partners were Jean-Paul Belmondo, James Coco, Bill Corpi and Oliver Reed, deserved only the audience applause and references to cinema club reviews.
In the 1980s, a crisis came in the career at all. After accusations in the slowness and the absence of professionalism nominated by the producers of the film "Canning row", the actress disappeared from the shooting platforms and settled on the theater scenes of Broadway.
For 20 years, Welch has played musical performances and sometimes starring on television, and in the early 2000s her return was held in a big movie. Since actress's main roles were not offered, she flashed several times in the paintings "Blonde in Law" and "Turtle Soup", and then returned to the series and launched its own fitness program and business for the production of cosmetics.
Personal life
It is no secret that in the personal life of one of the sexiest women of Hollywood, many men were present.For the first time, Raquel married a school comrade James Welch. From this union, in 1964, the actress remained a surname and two children: Damon and Tanya.
Embed from getty imagesAfter a 3-year break, which did not pass without novels with shooting partners, Raquel became the wife of the producer of Patrick Curtis. This marriage was standing for 5 years and collapsed, without leaving the shared actress neither the shade of regret. The divorce forced Welch to go deep into the work during which there was an acquaintance with the Third Husband, Journalist Andre Weinfeld. This time the marriage lasted longer than usual, and it seemed from the outside that he could become love for centuries.
Embed from getty imagesHowever, this did not happen, and in 1999, Raquel had another fan, the young entrepreneur Richard Palmer, soon took the fourth spouse. In 2008, these relationships were collapsed, and the actress said, does not want to marry anymore.
Some stories about life with a former agent and producer Welch told in the biographical book "On the other side of the Decolt."
Raquel Welch now
The last film with the participation of the Hollywood Beauty of the 70s was published in April 2017. It was the work of the American director Ken Marino "how to be a Latin lover."
After the premiere of the actress, it became less likely to appear in the public and now lives in Los Angeles on revenues from books and its own line of cosmetics.
In 2019, the actress turns 78 years old, but it does not look at their own age. And although Raquel does not go outside without professional makeup, fans want to believe that she still did not resort to the help of a plastic surgeon.
Filmography
- 1966 - "Fantastic Journey"
- 1966 - "Million years before our era"
- 1968 - Bandoloo
- 1969 - "One hundred rifles"
- 1969 - "Wonderworker"
- 1973 - "Three Musketeers: Queen Pendants"
- 1974 - "Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge"
- 1975 - "Wild Party"
- 1977 - "Beast"
- 2001 - "Blonde in Law"
- 2017 - "How to be a Latin lover"