Raquel Welch
Famed American actress born with the name Jo Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940 in Chicago. "Welch" is the surname of her first husband with whom she had two children during a short marriage. As a young girl she studied ballet for nearly a decade, began winning beauty contests, performing in plays, worked as a "weather girl" on television, and made a living as a model. She pursued acting roles in films and television (appearing in small parts in both arenas) and then had a leading role in Fantastic Voyage (1966). This began a long series of films (she has 68 film credits) in which she was often the center of all publicity and promotion of the project, though not always the star headliner.
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Fathom -Released Dec 13, 1967 by 20th Century Fox. Directed by Leslie Martinson.
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Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Movemaking
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Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Movemaking