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Raquel Welch Was Told to Change Her First Name So She Wouldn't 'Come Off as Being Hispanic'

Before there was Selena Quintanilla, Jennifer Lopez and Emilia Pérez stars Zoë Saldaña and Selena Gomez, there was Raquel Welch, For a brief period in the 1960s, Welch was one of the biggest stars on ...
Hartford Courant

Raquel Welch was the star who came in from the Chicago cold

Raquel Welch died Feb. 15, at the age of 82. From her teenage pageant years onward, her career was defined and in many ways confined by a gilded cage of marketable, exploitable beauty, sold primarily ...
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Raquel Welch dies at 82: Remembering the 1960s Hollywood actress and international pinup star in photos

Raquel Welch, the 1960s actress and earthy, dark-haired sex symbol who came to personify lust itself after wearing a deerskin bikini for the film “One Million Years B.C.,” died Feb. 15 at her home in ...
New York Post

Raquel Welch once threatened father with fire poker during explosive argument: doc

Raquel Welch once came face-to-face with who her ex-husband called “a very violent man” – her father. The Hollywood sex symbol, who passed away in 2023 at age 82, is the subject of a new CW ...
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Raquel Welch Was Told to Change Her First Name So She Wouldn't 'Come Off as Being Hispanic'

The new CW documentary 'I am Raquel Welch' examines the late actress's Bolivian heritage and the effect it had on her early career Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Before there was Selena Quintanilla, ...