From ‘Fantastic Voyage’ to ‘How to Be a Latin Lover,’ here’s how you can find some of Raquel Welch’s best movie performances.
Raquel Welch, the 1960s international sex symbol whose acting career spanned more than half a century, died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 82.
Welch shot to stardom in the ‘60s with the films “Fantastic Voyage” and “One Million Years B.C.” The pulpy movie poster for the latter famously featured Welch front and center in a doeskin bikini, and the rest was history.
“There was this bikini picture that came out that caused all the stir,” she told the New York Post in 2014. “I had been away shooting the film in the Canary Islands, and it was very remote. By the time I got back, everybody seemed to know who I was. I couldn’t have been happier, really, or more surprised. How was this possible?”
Welch acted in more than 30 films, dozens of television shows and made cheeky appearances on variety shows, like when she performed “I’m a Woman” alongside Cher on “The Cher Show” in 1975.
She even appeared on an episode of “Seinfeld,” playing herself, in which she got into a cat fight with Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Elaine, and played Mrs. Windham Vandermark in the 2001 hit film “Legally Blonde.
