Description:
A new reigning 60s international sex symbol took her cinematic
throne as soon as Raquel Welch emerged from the sea in her purposely depleted,
furry prehistoric bikini get-up. Tantalizingly wet with her garb clinging to
all the right amazonian places, One Million Years B.C. (1966), if nothing else,
captured the hearts and libidos of modern men (not to mention their teenage
sons) while producing THE most definitive and best-selling pin-up poster of
that time. After a major dry spell following the death of Marilyn Monroe in
1962, the auburn-maned Ms. Welch effortlessly assumed Marilyn's title and forever
wiped away the notion that enduring sex goddesses came only in one form -- bottled
blondes.
She was born Jo Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940 in Chicago,
Illinois, the first of three children born to Bolivian Armando Carlos Tejada,
an aerospace engineer, and his Irish-American wife Josephine Sarah Hall. The
family moved to San Diego, California (her father was transferred) when Raquel
was only two. Taking dance lessons as a youngster, she grew up to be quite a
knockout and nailed a number of teen beauty titles ("Miss Photogenic,"
"Miss La Jolla," "Miss Contour," "Miss Fairest of the
Fair" and "Miss San Diego"). With her sights set on theater arts,
she studied at San Diego State College on a scholarship starting in 1958 and
married her first husband, a high school sweetheart named James Welch, the following
year. They had two children Damon (born 1960) and Tahnee (born 1961). Tahnee
would go on to take advantage of her own stunning looks as an actress, most
notably a prime featured role in Cocoon (1985).
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