Overshadowed by her beauty, actress Raquel Welch, who died Wednesday at the age of 82, was much more than a 1970s S- symbol.
She was a stupendous actress with a comedic talent that Hollywood didn't know about. leverage.
Her beginnings in the industry began with Elvis Presley with a small role in The Globetrotter (1964) and later she had more weighty work in films such as Fantastic Voyage (1966).
In 1975, her talent was recognized with the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical thanks to The Three Musketeers.
Another of the representative tapes of her career was Myra Breckinridge (1970), The film was not well received by critics, and Welch, who had been interested in taking part in the project because of the acting challenge it posed to her career, was also not satisfied with the final result.
Since adolescence, Raquel Welch stood out for her physique
The daughter of a Bolivian engineer who moved to the United States, Jo Raquel Tejada was born in Chicago in 1940 and never denied her Latino roots, despite her father's efforts to make her ignore them so she could fit into American culture.
Since her teens, she was admired for her physique and she won some beauty pageants, but her true aspirations were set in acting.
At the age of 19, she married James Westley Welch, her high school sweetheart from La Jolla, in southern California, with whom she had two children, and from whom she adopted the last name with which she would be recognized. internationally until his last days.
Her career took off with the prehistoric adventure One Million Years B.C. (1966). The image of Welch and her iconic bikini cemented her status as an "S- symbol" in a tape whose promotional poster went down in movie history.
Her beauty and her erotic potential were taken advantage of by the industry, which created for her one of the most macho nicknames remembered in Hollywood: "The Body". The S- charge of this title accompanied her throughout her career and the actress, whose beauty was compared to that of Marilyn Monroe, never accepted N- roles.
Raquel Welch explored various terrains
The artist also worked as a singer and participated in musical programs, in which she shared the stage with artists like Cher. An iconic moment in her career was her 1967 visit to US troops during the Vietnam War to give a concert.
The actress was also part of titles such as Lady in Cement (1968), along with Frank Sinatra, and some of her most remembered tapes are the Western Hannie Caulder (1971) and Fathom (1967).
Welch worked on more than 70 audiovisual projects, and some of her latest works were on television such as Date My Dad (2017) and the film How to Be a Latin Lover, starring Eugenio Derbez.
In her maturity, the actress also dedicated herself to entrepreneurial businesses of cosmetic and beauty products. In 2010, she released her book Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage, in which she recounted her memories and reflections on how hard it was to be a single mother in the Hollywood industry and become an S- icon.
