Raquel Welch has a career in film and television spanning over 50 years, working with Marcello Mastroianni, Edward G. Robinson, Robin Williams, Jimmy Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Farrah Fawcett, Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds Dyan Cannon, James Coburn and many others.
Her breakthrough came as Cora in the wild 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic trip, opposite Stephen Boyd, Edmund O’Brien and Arthur Kennedy. Welch then starred as a caveman in the 1966 film A million years BC Her next big film was with Mae West and John Huston in the title role Myra Breckinridge. She later starred alongside Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed and Michael York in 1973 The Three Musketeersfor which she won a Golden Globe.
Although often praised for her looks, Welch has also played more serious roles, such as the 1987 television drama right to die, for which she was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award. In 2012, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presented a special retrospective of Welch’s films at the Walter Reade Theater.
Much of Welch’s career has capitalized on her cultural status. She was host SNL 1976 appears on The Muppet Showperformed a diva version of herself His field and wrestled onstage with Leslie Nielsen’s lieutenant Frank Drebin as “Raquel Welch” at the Oscars Naked Gun 33 1/2: The Final Insult.
Of course, Welch also presented at the actual Academy Awards in 1970, 1974, 1975 and 1979. She accepted the 1970 Oscar for an absent Goldie Hawn.
Source: Deadline
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