Farewell to Raquel Welch, cinema icon who bewitched the world with a leather bikini. PHOTO

Symbol of the sensuality of the sixties and seventies, the actress Raquel Welch she died at 82 years old after a short illness. The site reported it Tmz citing family sources

Actress Raquel Welch has died at 82

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After the you begin in small parts – in 1964 in films Madame P… and her girls by Russell Rouse starring Shelley Winters and Robert Taylor, and opposite Elvis Presley neither The Luna Park singer by John Rich – Raquel burst into the imagination for the role of Loana in A million years ago by Don Chaffey: the manifest of the film, released in 1966, with Welch in a provocative bikini in skin suedebecame a collector’s item

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Others followed roles as a sex symbol, between Fathom: beautiful, intrepid and a spy (1967) by Leslie H. Martinson next to Anthony French And My friend the devil (1967) by Stanley Donen, starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook

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Also in 1966, unique hero femalehad entered the film of science fiction Amazing journeywho had decreed the truth success. Then over time Welch had managed to be appreciated as an actress in more committed roles

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He had earned two nominations for the golden globe, winning one in 1975 as improve actress in a comedy or musical film for the role of Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers with Faye Dunaway And Charlton Heston (the second nomination was for the television role in When to die by Paul Wendkos)

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“On my first day on set Faye came up to me to tell me she was my great fan: ‘But maybe you don’t know that they’re all waiting for us to gouge out each other’s eyes. Let’s make them amuse‘”, he later told al New York Post in a 2012 interview

In 1995 the magazine Empire he had named her one of 100 sexiest stars in history of cinema, for Playboy she was the third-most super-sexy star of the 20th century, but Raquel saw it differently

“I was happy that I made it and that I could have had one careerbut at the same time I didn’t see myself like that“, he wrote in his memoir Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage (over the neckline) about the role in A Million Years Ago: “I wasn’t in a position to say, ‘No thanks, I’d rather do Shakespeare‘”

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Welch’s acting career also had a chapter Italian with comedy Shoot harder, harder… I don’t understand! of 1966 of Edward de Philipshot between Naples and Cinecittà by Joe Levine

“Raquel revealed herself Very Goodespecially in comedy,” he praised Marcellus Mastroianniher co-star: “And comedy is much harder than drama”

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of the same year, The fairiesin the episode directed by Mauro Bolognini: the other three protagonists of the shorts were Capucine, Claudia Cardinale and Monica Vitti

After almost 20 years off the big screen, Raquel Welch played herself in The Naked Gun 33⅓ – The Final Insult (1994) by Peter Segal, and participated in others movie including the famous The revenge of the blondes (2001) by Robert Luketic

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After cutting back on film and television commitments again in recent years, the actress has appeared in a few TV series as 8 simple rules (2004) and CSI: Miami (2012)

As for private life. Raquel Welch has been married four times. The first with James Welch with whom he had two children, then with Patrick Curtis, nephew of director Billy Wilder. In 1980 she remarried the film producer Andre Weinfeld and in 1999 came the marriage with Richard Palmer (in the picture)

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