Life in pictures: Hollywood siren Raquel Welch dies at 82

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Life in pictures: Hollywood siren Raquel Welch dies at 82

The Hollywood star rose to prominence in the 1966 film ‘One Million Years B.C.'

Published: February 16, 2023 11:57 Compiled by Rajagopalan Venkataraman, Assistant Editor-Features , AP and Washington Post

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Welch, a onetime model and beauty queen, entered show business in decorous roles before making an impression in the 1966 science-fiction film 'Fantastic Voyage', playing a scientist who is shrunk to the size of a microbe and injected inside a dying man. — Raquel Welch, a onetime model and beauty queen, who died on February 15, entered show business in decorous roles before making an impression in the 1966 science-fiction film 'Fantastic Voyage'. In the movie, she plays a scientist who is shrunk to the size of a microbe and injected inside a dying man. Image Credit: AFP

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Raquel Welch — Later that year, Welch, seen here with New York Jets football player Joe Namath at the 44th Academy awards in Los Angeles, starred as a cave-dwelling woman in 'One Million Years B.C.', a low-budget British adventure fantasy. She hardly spoke in the film — in one scene, she was terrorized by a giant primordial bird — but few moviegoers bought tickets for the dialogue. Even before the film was released, a publicity photo emphasizing her physical charms seemed to say it all. Image Credit: AP

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Raquel Welch poses with sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Saipan — Welch went on to play one of the seven deadly sins — Lust — in the British comedy 'Bedazzled' (1967) and was frequently cast in westerns, including as a frontier widow who falls in love with Dean Martin in 'Bandolero!' (1968), a doomed Native American revolutionary opposite Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds in '100 Rifles' (1969) and a gunfighter-in-training in 'Hannie Caulder' (1971), with Robert Culp and Ernest Borgnine. Image Credit: AP

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