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She was 82.\n\nWelch's son, Damon, confirmed she died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles after a brief illness.\n\n\"She passed away with no pain,\" he said. \"I'm very proud about what she contributed to society and her career and everything. I'm most proud of her doing the U.S.O tours with Bob Hope during the late 60s and early 70s. We missed Christmas with her for three years while she was doing that. She said that was the hardest thing.\"\n\nWelch's career started in the 1960s with appearances on TV shows such as The Virginian, McHale's Navy and Bewitched. That paved the way for back-to-back roles in Fantastic Voyage, and One Million Years B.C. That latter role catapulted her to sex symbol status. Welch would go on to star in several films, including 1970's Myra Breckinridge, where she played a trans actress, and The Three Musketeers, which earned her a Golden Globe in 1974 for best actress in a motion picture comedy or musical.\n\nShe leaves behind her two children, her son Damon Welch and her daughter, Tahnee Welch.\n\nWelch was born Jo-Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois to a Bolivian father and an American mother.\n\nThough she didn't often discuss her identity in the early years of her career, the actress embraced her Latinidad in the early 2000s, both by speaking openly about her background and by playing Latina roles like Aunt Dora in the PBS show American Family and Hortensia in the film Tortilla Soup.\n\n\"Raquel Welch was a screen legend during a time when Latinos rarely were given any work in Hollywood (unless it was a stereotype),\" said film critic and Entertainment Weekly editor Yolanda Machado. \"She had to hide her identity to succeed, and despite what a heavy weight that may have been to conceal, she triumphed in memorable performances that stand as a portal into an entire generation.\"\n\nWelch told the New York Times in 2002 that though she didn't try to intentionally cover up her Bolivian heritage, it wasn't a significant part of her culture at home because of her father's attempts to assimilate as much as possible.\n\n\"Those people who wanted to make it in the American system found it necessary and desirable to kind of suppress their Latino quality,\" she explained. \"He never spoke any Spanish in the home, so as not to have us have an accent. 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I didn't know any Latin people.\"\n\nWelch went on to say that though she partially resented his erasure of their background, she understood he was trying to protect the family from facing prejudice and discrimination.\n\nBut 40 years into her career, as Latinos made more strides for inclusivity in Hollywood, so did Welch.\n\n\"Latinos are here to stay,\" she said at a National Press Club Luncheon in 2002. \"As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.\"\n\nPolitical cartoonist and TV writer Lalo Alcaraz said that though Welch's background might have come as a surprise to many, he's honored Latinos can say she belongs to the community.\n\n\"We don't have that many stars,\" Alcaraz said. \"Raquel Welch is viewed as one of our stars, and I'm happy and proud about 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Welch: US actress and model dies at 82\n\nUS actress Raquel Welch, often credited with paving the way for modern day action heroines in Hollywood films, has died at the age of 82.\n\nThe star passed away peacefully on Wednesday morning after a brief illness, her manager said.\n\nWelch became an international sex symbol in the 1960s, widely remembered for playing a bikini-clad cavewoman in the 1966 film One Million Years B.C.\n\nShe also won a Golden Globe for her role in 1974's The Three Musketeers.\n\nBorn Jo-Raquel Tejada in 1940, Welch grew up in California, where she won teen beauty pageants and later became a local weather forecaster.\n\nDuring a brief stint in Dallas, Texas, the divorced mother-of-two modelled for the Neiman Marcus clothing store and worked as a cocktail waitress.\n\nHer big break came in 1964 soon after she moved back to California, when she scored cameos in A House Is Not A Home, and Roustabout, a musical starring Elvis Presley.\n\nShe shot to prominence two years later, with her back-to-back roles in the sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage and the fantasy movie One Million Years B.C.\n\nWelch only had a few lines in the latter, but promotional stills of her wearing a skimpy two-piece deerskin bikini turned her into a leading pin-up girl of the era.\n\nDespite her public image, however, she long expressed discomfort with the representation of her body, once saying she \"was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one\".\n\n\"The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding,\" she added.\n\nWelch went on to address her image in her memoir, Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage, in which she opened up about her childhood, her early career woes as a single mother in Hollywood, and why she would never lie about her age.\n\nIn a career spanning over five decades, Welch appeared in more than 30 movies and 50 television shows.\n\nIt included playing the love interest of Frank Sinatra's character in 1968's Lady in Cement; the titular transgender heroine in 1970's Myra Breckenridge; and a Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1987 TV drama Right to Die.\n\nLater in life, she also released her own signature line of wigs, a jewellery and skincare collection, and a Mac Cosmetics makeup line.\n\nActress Reese Witherspoon was among those paying tribute, writing on Twitter that she \"loved\" working with Welch on Legally Blonde.\n\n\"She was elegant, professional and glamorous beyond belief,\" said Witherspoon. \"Simply stunning.\"\n\nActress and producer Viola Davis posted a clip of her singing \"I'm a Woman\" with Cher in 1975, writing: \"You were ageless to me...iconic\".\n\nIn 1978 she sang the same song with the famous puppet Miss Piggy, earning a tribute on Wednesday from the beloved comedy programme.\n\n'We'll never forget our remarkable friend Raquel Welch, one of our favorite guests on The Muppet Show,\" the Disney series tweeted.\n\nActor Paul Feig said he 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Welch, international icon from La Jolla who starred in \u2018One Million Years B.C.,\u2019 dies at 82\n\nWelch rose to fame with roles in \u2018Fantastic Voyage\u2019 and \u2018One Million Years B.C.,\u2019 and helped break the Hollywood mold through her portrayal of strong female characters\n\nRaquel Welch had only three lines in the 1966 film \u201cOne Million Years B.C.,\u201d but her doeskin bikini did all the talking anyway, launching her as an international icon almost overnight. She parlayed that notoriety into a Hollywood career that burned bright for nearly 60 years.\n\nWelch died Wednesday, according to her management company, Media Four. She was 82.\n\n\u201cRaquel Welch, the legendary bombshell actress of film, television and stage, passed away peacefully early this morning after a brief illness,\u201d said a statement from Media Four. \u201cHer career spanned over 50 years starring in over 30 films and 50 television series and appearances. The Golden Globe winner, in more recent years, was involved in a very successful line of wigs.\u201d\n\nWelch was a La Jolla beauty queen-turned-single mom, but to the world, she was an exotic actor whose smoldering looks and curvy figure suited the mood of the swinging 1960s.\n\n\u201cI liked that there was something very superhero about her,\u201d Welch told The Times in 2016, referring to her role as Loana the cave girl. \u201cAt least I wasn\u2019t one of those mincing little girls; I never wanted to be that.\u201d\n\nIndeed, Welch had a complicated relationship with her persona. Forever determined to prove that she was more than a sex symbol, she was rarely taken as seriously as she took herself. And though she proudly refused to do nude scenes, her fame was always tied directly to her sexuality, a fate she accepted with regret.\n\n\u201cThere was this perception of \u2018Oh, she\u2019s just a sexpot. She\u2019s just a body. She probably can\u2019t walk and chew gum at the same time.\u2019\u201d she told Men\u2019s Health in 2012.\n\n\u201cA unique beauty who left her one of a kind groovy vibe wherever she went,\u201d actor and comedian Sandra Bernhard tweeted in a tribute Wednesday, one of many Hollywood remembrances.\n\nIn an era when men often considered women largely ornamental, Welch earned a reputation for being strong-willed and independent. In 1970, at the peak of her fame, she took a role that no one wanted as a transgender woman in the film adaptation of Gore Vidal\u2019s satirical novel \u201cMyra Breckinridge.\u201d\n\nWelch said she asked to be in the movie because she was a fan of Vidal\u2019s book and thought it would offer a dramatic role that might take her career in a new direction.\n\nBut, she said, the final script was stripped of the book\u2019s off-color humor and absurdity that she had so enjoyed. Welch ended up hating the finished project, as did audiences and critics. The film, perhaps, became best known for the fight she had on set with her co-star, Mae West, over who got to wear a black dress.\n\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t control that the script wasn\u2019t coming together,\u201d Welch said in her defense. \u201cEach rewrite got further and further from making any sense.\u201d\n\nA decade later, Welch sued MGM when the studio replaced her with a much younger, more affordable Debra Winger in the 1982 film version of John Steinbeck\u2019s World War II-era novel \u201cCannery Row.\u201d\n\nWelch claimed the studio fired her because of her age and to save money, in the process ruining her career just as she was poised to win recognition as a serious actor. The studio said she was let go for showing up late and taking too long in makeup.\n\nAfter a six-year legal battle, she won a $14-million settlement. But in the process, she earned \u2014 rightly or wrongly \u2014 a reputation for being difficult, and her film career largely flickered out.\n\nWelch blamed Hollywood\u2019s reluctance to embrace older women for her diminished career.\n\n\u201cAs life goes on you get more valuable as a person. Many women look better,\u201d she told The Times in 2010. \u201cPersonally, I think I look better because I have lived and I have a different kind of aura about me having lived.\u201d\n\nBorn Jo Raquel Tejada on Sept. 5, 1940, in Chicago, Welch was the oldest of three children. Her father was a Bolivian-born aeronautical engineer who moved his family to San Diego when Welch was a toddler to design aircrafts during World War II.\n\nHe was a volatile man who bullied the household, especially her mother, a seamstress of English descent. Welch once threatened him with a fireplace poker to protect her mother.\n\nA star student, Welch started winning beauty pageants when she was 14, ultimately earning the state title of Maid of California in 1958, the year she graduated from high school. Though she attended San Diego State University on a drama scholarship, she dropped out to get married and take a job as a weather girl at a local TV station.\n\nWelch married her high-school sweetheart, James Welch, and had two children by the time she was 21. After they separated, Welch moved to Los Angeles with her children to pursue acting. Within three years, she was a superstar.\n\nShe started out earning small roles in popular TV shows and films, such as her turn as a coed in Elvis Presley\u2019s \u201cRoustabout.\u201d She got her first lead role as a bikini-clad know-it-all in the 1965 film \u201cA Swingin\u2019 Summer.\u201d\n\nAfter a screen test opposite James Coburn for the 1966 James Bond spoof \u201cOur Man Flint,\u201d she became one of the last contract players at 20th Century Fox to sign a multiyear deal.\n\nOne of the studio\u2019s first moves, she said, was to suggest that she change her first name to Debbie, saying that Raquel \u201cfelt too ethnic.\u201d She refused.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m proud of my Bolivian heritage,\u201d she told The Times years later.\n\nShe quickly landed a role as a doctor in the 1966 Oscar-winning drama \u201cFantastic Voyage\u201d and then her career-making appearance in the prehistoric remake \u201cOne Million Years B.C.\u201d That film\u2019s poster launched her to stardom.","comments":1,"comments-timestamp":"2023-02-16T15:09:42Z","created":"2023-02-16T10:17:14Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":324443,"love":0,"meta":[],"modified":"2023-02-16T15:09:42Z","name":"Raquel Welch, Hollywood actress and sex symbol, has died at the age of 82","node-timestamp":"2023-02-16T10:17:54Z","parent":323890,"parents":[1,5,9,313060,323890],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/$323890\/raquel-welch-hollywood-actress-and-sex-symbol-has-died-at-the-age-of-82","published":"2023-02-16T10:17:54Z","scope":"public","slug":"raquel-welch-hollywood-actress-and-sex-symbol-has-died-at-the-age-of-82","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1012328},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"324443","n_urlkey":"401396","n_parent":"323890","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/$323890\/raquel-welch-hollywood-actress-and-sex-symbol-has-died-at-the-age-of-82","n_slug":"raquel-welch-hollywood-actress-a","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"323889","n_created":"1676542634","n_modified":"1676560182","n_version":"1012328","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/$323890\/raquel-welch-hollywood-actress-and-sex-symbol-has-died-at-the-age-of-82","text":"Raquel Welch, who rose to fame as a sex symbol in the 1960s, has died. She was 82.\n\nWelch's son, Damon, confirmed she died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles after a brief illness.\n\n\"She passed away with no pain,\" he said. \"I'm very proud about what she contributed to society and her career and everything. I'm most proud of her doing the U.S.O tours with Bob Hope during the late 60s and early 70s. We missed Christmas with her for three years while she was doing that. She said that was the hardest thing.\"\n\nWelch's career started in the 1960s with appearances on TV shows such as The Virginian, McHale's Navy and Bewitched. That paved the way for back-to-back roles in Fantastic Voyage, and One Million Years B.C. That latter role catapulted her to sex symbol status. Welch would go on to star in several films, including 1970's Myra Breckinridge, where she played a trans actress, and The Three Musketeers, which earned her a Golden Globe in 1974 for best actress in a motion picture comedy or musical.\n\nShe leaves behind her two children, her son Damon Welch and her daughter, Tahnee Welch.\n\nWelch was born Jo-Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois to a Bolivian father and an American mother.\n\nThough she didn't often discuss her identity in the early years of her career, the actress embraced her Latinidad in the early 2000s, both by speaking openly about her background and by playing Latina roles like Aunt Dora in the PBS show American Family and Hortensia in the film Tortilla Soup.\n\n\"Raquel Welch was a screen legend during a time when Latinos rarely were given any work in Hollywood (unless it was a stereotype),\" said film critic and Entertainment Weekly editor Yolanda Machado. \"She had to hide her identity to succeed, and despite what a heavy weight that may have been to conceal, she triumphed in memorable performances that stand as a portal into an entire generation.\"\n\nWelch told the New York Times in 2002 that though she didn't try to intentionally cover up her Bolivian heritage, it wasn't a significant part of her culture at home because of her father's attempts to assimilate as much as possible.\n\n\"Those people who wanted to make it in the American system found it necessary and desirable to kind of suppress their Latino quality,\" she explained. \"He never spoke any Spanish in the home, so as not to have us have an accent. We never were in a neighborhood where there were other Latinos around. I didn't know any Latin people.\"\n\nWelch went on to say that though she partially resented his erasure of their background, she understood he was trying to protect the family from facing prejudice and discrimination.\n\nBut 40 years into her career, as Latinos made more strides for inclusivity in Hollywood, so did Welch.\n\n\"Latinos are here to stay,\" she said at a National Press Club Luncheon in 2002. \"As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.\"\n\nPolitical cartoonist and TV writer Lalo Alcaraz said that though Welch's background might have come as a surprise to many, he's honored Latinos can say she belongs to the community.\n\n\"We don't have that many stars,\" Alcaraz said. \"Raquel Welch is viewed as one of our stars, and I'm happy and proud about 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Welch: US actress and model dies at 82\n\nUS actress Raquel Welch, often credited with paving the way for modern day action heroines in Hollywood films, has died at the age of 82.\n\nThe star passed away peacefully on Wednesday morning after a brief illness, her manager said.\n\nWelch became an international sex symbol in the 1960s, widely remembered for playing a bikini-clad cavewoman in the 1966 film One Million Years B.C.\n\nShe also won a Golden Globe for her role in 1974's The Three Musketeers.\n\nBorn Jo-Raquel Tejada in 1940, Welch grew up in California, where she won teen beauty pageants and later became a local weather forecaster.\n\nDuring a brief stint in Dallas, Texas, the divorced mother-of-two modelled for the Neiman Marcus clothing store and worked as a cocktail waitress.\n\nHer big break came in 1964 soon after she moved back to California, when she scored cameos in A House Is Not A Home, and Roustabout, a musical starring Elvis Presley.\n\nShe shot to prominence two years later, with her back-to-back roles in the sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage and the fantasy movie One Million Years B.C.\n\nWelch only had a few lines in the latter, but promotional stills of her wearing a skimpy two-piece deerskin bikini turned her into a leading pin-up girl of the era.\n\nDespite her public image, however, she long expressed discomfort with the representation of her body, once saying she \"was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one\".\n\n\"The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding,\" she added.\n\nWelch went on to address her image in her memoir, Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage, in which she opened up about her childhood, her early career woes as a single mother in Hollywood, and why she would never lie about her age.\n\nIn a career spanning over five decades, Welch appeared in more than 30 movies and 50 television shows.\n\nIt included playing the love interest of Frank Sinatra's character in 1968's Lady in Cement; the titular transgender heroine in 1970's Myra Breckenridge; and a Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1987 TV drama Right to Die.\n\nLater in life, she also released her own signature line of wigs, a jewellery and skincare collection, and a Mac Cosmetics makeup line.\n\nActress Reese Witherspoon was among those paying tribute, writing on Twitter that she \"loved\" working with Welch on Legally Blonde.\n\n\"She was elegant, professional and glamorous beyond belief,\" said Witherspoon. \"Simply stunning.\"\n\nActress and producer Viola Davis posted a clip of her singing \"I'm a Woman\" with Cher in 1975, writing: \"You were ageless to me...iconic\".\n\nIn 1978 she sang the same song with the famous puppet Miss Piggy, earning a tribute on Wednesday from the beloved comedy programme.\n\n'We'll never forget our remarkable friend Raquel Welch, one of our favorite guests on The Muppet Show,\" the Disney series tweeted.\n\nActor Paul Feig said he enjoyed working with her on TV series Sabrina the Teenage Witch.\n\n\"Kind, funny and a true superstar whom I was pretty much in love with for most of my childhood,\" he wrote, adding: \"We've lost a true icon.\"\n\nShe leaves behind a son, Damon Welch, and daughter Latanne \"Tahnee\" Welch, who is also an 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Welch, international icon from La Jolla who starred in \u2018One Million Years B.C.,\u2019 dies at 82\n\nWelch rose to fame with roles in \u2018Fantastic Voyage\u2019 and \u2018One Million Years B.C.,\u2019 and helped break the Hollywood mold through her portrayal of strong female characters\n\nRaquel Welch had only three lines in the 1966 film \u201cOne Million Years B.C.,\u201d but her doeskin bikini did all the talking anyway, launching her as an international icon almost overnight. She parlayed that notoriety into a Hollywood career that burned bright for nearly 60 years.\n\nWelch died Wednesday, according to her management company, Media Four. She was 82.\n\n\u201cRaquel Welch, the legendary bombshell actress of film, television and stage, passed away peacefully early this morning after a brief illness,\u201d said a statement from Media Four. \u201cHer career spanned over 50 years starring in over 30 films and 50 television series and appearances. The Golden Globe winner, in more recent years, was involved in a very successful line of wigs.\u201d\n\nWelch was a La Jolla beauty queen-turned-single mom, but to the world, she was an exotic actor whose smoldering looks and curvy figure suited the mood of the swinging 1960s.\n\n\u201cI liked that there was something very superhero about her,\u201d Welch told The Times in 2016, referring to her role as Loana the cave girl. \u201cAt least I wasn\u2019t one of those mincing little girls; I never wanted to be that.\u201d\n\nIndeed, Welch had a complicated relationship with her persona. Forever determined to prove that she was more than a sex symbol, she was rarely taken as seriously as she took herself. And though she proudly refused to do nude scenes, her fame was always tied directly to her sexuality, a fate she accepted with regret.\n\n\u201cThere was this perception of \u2018Oh, she\u2019s just a sexpot. She\u2019s just a body. She probably can\u2019t walk and chew gum at the same time.\u2019\u201d she told Men\u2019s Health in 2012.\n\n\u201cA unique beauty who left her one of a kind groovy vibe wherever she went,\u201d actor and comedian Sandra Bernhard tweeted in a tribute Wednesday, one of many Hollywood remembrances.\n\nIn an era when men often considered women largely ornamental, Welch earned a reputation for being strong-willed and independent. In 1970, at the peak of her fame, she took a role that no one wanted as a transgender woman in the film adaptation of Gore Vidal\u2019s satirical novel \u201cMyra Breckinridge.\u201d\n\nWelch said she asked to be in the movie because she was a fan of Vidal\u2019s book and thought it would offer a dramatic role that might take her career in a new direction.\n\nBut, she said, the final script was stripped of the book\u2019s off-color humor and absurdity that she had so enjoyed. Welch ended up hating the finished project, as did audiences and critics. The film, perhaps, became best known for the fight she had on set with her co-star, Mae West, over who got to wear a black dress.\n\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t control that the script wasn\u2019t coming together,\u201d Welch said in her defense. \u201cEach rewrite got further and further from making any sense.\u201d\n\nA decade later, Welch sued MGM when the studio replaced her with a much younger, more affordable Debra Winger in the 1982 film version of John Steinbeck\u2019s World War II-era novel \u201cCannery Row.\u201d\n\nWelch claimed the studio fired her because of her age and to save money, in the process ruining her career just as she was poised to win recognition as a serious actor. The studio said she was let go for showing up late and taking too long in makeup.\n\nAfter a six-year legal battle, she won a $14-million settlement. But in the process, she earned \u2014 rightly or wrongly \u2014 a reputation for being difficult, and her film career largely flickered out.\n\nWelch blamed Hollywood\u2019s reluctance to embrace older women for her diminished career.\n\n\u201cAs life goes on you get more valuable as a person. Many women look better,\u201d she told The Times in 2010. \u201cPersonally, I think I look better because I have lived and I have a different kind of aura about me having lived.\u201d\n\nBorn Jo Raquel Tejada on Sept. 5, 1940, in Chicago, Welch was the oldest of three children. Her father was a Bolivian-born aeronautical engineer who moved his family to San Diego when Welch was a toddler to design aircrafts during World War II.\n\nHe was a volatile man who bullied the household, especially her mother, a seamstress of English descent. Welch once threatened him with a fireplace poker to protect her mother.\n\nA star student, Welch started winning beauty pageants when she was 14, ultimately earning the state title of Maid of California in 1958, the year she graduated from high school. Though she attended San Diego State University on a drama scholarship, she dropped out to get married and take a job as a weather girl at a local TV station.\n\nWelch married her high-school sweetheart, James Welch, and had two children by the time she was 21. After they separated, Welch moved to Los Angeles with her children to pursue acting. Within three years, she was a superstar.\n\nShe started out earning small roles in popular TV shows and films, such as her turn as a coed in Elvis Presley\u2019s \u201cRoustabout.\u201d She got her first lead role as a bikini-clad know-it-all in the 1965 film \u201cA Swingin\u2019 Summer.\u201d\n\nAfter a screen test opposite James Coburn for the 1966 James Bond spoof \u201cOur Man Flint,\u201d she became one of the last contract players at 20th Century Fox to sign a multiyear deal.\n\nOne of the studio\u2019s first moves, she said, was to suggest that she change her first name to Debbie, saying that Raquel \u201cfelt too ethnic.\u201d She refused.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m proud of my Bolivian heritage,\u201d she told The Times years later.\n\nShe quickly landed a role as a doctor in the 1966 Oscar-winning drama \u201cFantastic Voyage\u201d and then her career-making appearance in the prehistoric remake \u201cOne Million Years B.C.\u201d That film\u2019s poster launched her to stardom.","title":"Raquel Welch, Hollywood actress and sex symbol, has died at the age of 82","wayback_source":[]}