Racquel Welch
Born: September 5, 1940
Place: Chicago, Illinois
She is the oldest of three children. Her father immigrated from La Paz, Bolivia, her mother was an Irish-American.
Raquel took dancing lessons as a child, and was winning beauty pageants by the time she was a teenager. After attending High School (Class of 1958), she entered San Diego State College on a theater arts scholarship. The following year she married a high school sweetheart, James Welch. Her marriage broke up and she moved with her two children to Dallas, TX, where she modeled for Neiman Marcus and worked as a cocktail hostess, intending to move to New York City from there. Instead, she moved back to California.
Her fist featured role came in the beach film A Swingin' Summer, which led to a contract with 20th Century Fox. She was than cast in a leading role in the sci-fi hit Fantastic Voyage (1966), which made her a star. She was the last star created under the studio system.
Raquel Welch became one of the leading sex symbols of the 1960s and 1970s. Playboy called her the "Most Deisred Woman" of the 1970s. Despite her sex symbol persona in films and countless magazine layouts, including one for Playboy, Raquel never appeared nude in a film or posed nude for a magazine.
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