In Memoriam

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Raquel Welch passed away at 82.

I saw her in Fuzz in '72 (at age seven, I was more interested in Burt Reynolds and Yul Brynner for their coolness), but I think it was when I was 12 seeing her in the prehistoric bikini from One Million Years B.C. on a poster that made her my ideal woman in my mind. Oh, there are some very, very close, but she would be tops for me then, now, and forever. I even dated a girl for a time because she resembled her!



RIP

PS She was great in the The Three Musketeer movies. Raquel might have been a goddess, but she did have some talent, too.

Aww, damn! That's too bad!

[Albert1981]

Very sorry to hear of Bacharach's and Welch's deaths. I loved Burt's songs and I was just thinking about Welch in Fantastic Voyage after reading reviews about Ant-Man 3. RIP.

[caj]

Welch was still gorgeous well into her 60s. I loved her in many things, including Seinfeld. She was almost cast ad Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island.

[The Darknight Detective]

Welch was still gorgeous well into her 60s. I loved her in many things, including Seinfeld. She was almost cast ad Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island.

Heh. Tina Louise had enough problems dealing with Dawn Wells' girl-next-door beauty, but she would have gone nuclear if Raquel had gotten the part.

[signalman112]

Welch was still gorgeous well into her 60s. I loved her in many things, including Seinfeld. She was almost cast ad Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island.

Looking fabulous on this cover at 70 years old.
Rest In Peace!

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[Zelena]

She seemed to be a nice woman… Rip.

[mogwen]

Welch was still gorgeous well into her 60s. I loved her in many things, including Seinfeld. She was almost cast ad Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island.

She was considered for Thunderball (the James Bond) too.

[caj]

Looking fabulous on this cover at 70 years old.
Rest In Peace!

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Absolutely gorgeous. Her Seinfeld episode is one of my favorites. She was definitely great at comedy.

[The Darknight Detective]

She seemed to be a nice woman… Rip.

That wasn't the consensus opinion when I was growing up when she was the #1 sex symbol, but I suspect that was because she didn't want to play the Hollywood game. God knows what she had to deal with men-wise back then, too.

[seismic-2]

Heh. Tina Louise had enough problems dealing with Dawn Wells' girl-next-door beauty, but she would have gone nuclear if Raquel had gotten the part.

Speaking of glamour girls vs. girls next door, one of Raquel Welch's first (and uncredited) screen roles was in the Elvis Presley vehicle Roustabout, in which she was one of the bevy of beauties who swooned over Elvis's singing. In the publicity photo below, the actress standing between Raquel and Elvis is Teri Garr, who was also in one of her first and uncredited screen roles as a dancer in the movie and who said she felt very much out of place standing next to Raquel.

[The Darknight Detective]

Speaking of glamour girls vs. girls next door, one of Raquel Welch's first (and uncredited) screen roles was in the Elvis Presley vehicle Roustabout, in which she was one of the bevy of beauties who swooned over Elvis's singing. In the publicity photo below, the actress standing between Raquel and Elvis is Teri Garr, who was also in one of her first and uncredited screen roles as a dancer in the movie and who said she felt very much out of place standing next to Raquel.

Teri was very cute and leggy, but standing next to the most perfect looking woman from head to toe (my opinion), she would have to pale in comparison.

[Iron Maiden]

I think Raquel Welch was underrated as a actress. I remember seeing her in Kansas City Bomber where she did a lot of her own stunts as a Roller Derby skater on a banked track. They played an old Dick Cavett interview with her on the Decades channel and she even broke her wrist while filming a scene. She was also very good as Constance in Richard Lesters's The Three Musketeers.

[MajorHoy]

And R.I.P. Stella Stevens (at age 84):
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...or-1235328909/

[The Darknight Detective]

And R.I.P. Stella Stevens (at age 84):
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...or-1235328909/

Man, another stunner from the same era. How is Ann-Margret doing?!

The Poseidon Adventure was the first time I saw her and she was great in it, but I was in love with her as Miss Purty in The Nutty Professor.

RIP

[seismic-2]

And Stella Stevens truly was an underrated actress as well as a gorgeous one. For evidence of her acting chops (which she was unable to exercise in most of the lightweight movies in which she was cast), see her performance in the Sam Peckinpah comic western The Ballad of Cable Hogue. She totally holds her own against co-star Jason Robards, and then some.