Raquel Welch's body: four husbands, romances with Sancho Gracia and Elvis Presley and a Bolivian father who forbade her to speak Spanish
Legacy The millionaire fortune that Raquel Welch has left to her two discreet heirs
Birthday The 80th birthday of Raquel Welch, the sex bomb with mammoth skin panties and a conservative mentality
The death of Raquel Welch at the age of 82 after a brief illness has once again highlighted how the sexist gear of
Hollywood treated women as mere pieces of meat
.
So did the owner of Fox, Daryl F. Zanuck, and the co-founder of Columbia, Harry Cohn.
With Ava Gardner, her females began to be treated like cattle after being called
"the most beautiful animal in the world" and several decades later Welch was nicknamed "The Body."
Her appearance wearing a caveman skin bikini in
A Million Years Ago
(1966)
was the trigger for which the actress of Bolivian descent, although born in Chicago,
ignited the libido of millions of men who flocked to theaters .
He owes that role to Ursula Andress (86) who, after rejecting the offer,
recommended that the producers look for a very pretty girl
... The rest is history.
At that time, the actress was divorced from her first husband,
James Welch, with whom she had two children, Damon (1959) and Tahnee (1961)
, who were in her custody.
Being the daughter of a myth was not easy for them
since Raquel traveled constantly because of filming
, but she tried to communicate with her offspring in the best way she could.
However, the promotional whirlwind of her engulfed her in such a way that in
some Christmas postcards she said goodbye to her as Raquel and not as her mother.
The actress and sex symbol, Raquel Welch 'The Body'Getty
Following in the footsteps of Rita Hayworth, Zsa Zsa Gabor or Mickey Rooney, the protagonist of
The Three Musketeers
(1973) - the director, Richard Lester, tried to make
the Beatles embody the guardians of King Louis XIII of France
- had countless lovers and he was married several times.
Her next husbands were the producer
Patrick Curtis (1967-1972), the director and writer André Weinfeld
(1980-1990) and the performer Richie Palmer (1999-2004), who abandoned her fiancée, Cathy Moriarty (62 ).
Among the romances that he combined with some of his marriages are Richard Burton, who was married to Elizabeth Taylor, and whom he defined as "a heat-guided missile";
Elvis Presley, of whom he commented that "when he appeared, I suddenly understood what sex is";
Warren Beatty,
of whom he stressed that he "has been with everything that moves
"
and Sancho Gracia,
whom he met while filming the spaghetti western 100 Rifles (1969) in Almería.
When her second husband found out, he did not hesitate to chase the
attractive Spanish interpreter with a gun through the hotel where they were staying.
While filming lasted, she also slept with another Spanish actor, Aldo Sambrell, specialized in western films.
Other leagues outside of the marital sphere were Steven McQueen,
whom she described as "charming" and Dudley Moore, "an adorable being."
Following the advice given by James Coburn that to be sexy you have to be somewhat mysterious, the actress always refused to reveal intimacies.
She neither denied nor affirmed, but she is credited with other
roles with Marcello Mastroianni, Frank Sinatra, Robert Wagner, Fernando Lamas, Alice Cooper or Robert Evans.
The actress Raquel WelchEFE
Everything that was beautiful about her was surly and cold.
One of the times he landed in Barajas, he broke a bottle on the head of a reporter,
he even slapped a film director, during the filming of the Freixenet Christmas spot in 1985 he gave the team a hard time and if you took pictures of him without prior notice had a face of few friends.
One of her most transgressive performances was in
Myra Breckinridge
(1970), in which she played a transsexual and during
which she had high-voltage arguments with co-star
, the indomitable yet legendary Mae West.
Her ties with our country do not end there, since one of her unconditional followers has been Bibiana Fernández (68), who pasted
her photos in her notebooks because when she grew up she aspired to be like her.
Throughout her career, she won a Golden Globe and the honorary award
Almería Tierra de Cine
(2005) at the IV Almería International Short Film Festival.
Installed in a quiet maturity, Raquel Welch used to remember the times when she had to
work as a waitress, model and weather girl
on a local channel to raise her two children when she had not yet caressed her wake.
She fought hard
to keep the producers from changing her name, claiming it was hard to pronounce,
but she managed to keep it as a tribute to her Hispanic roots.
His father,
Armando Carlos Tejada, was an aeronautical engineer from La Paz (Bolivia)
who denied his origins so as not to suffer from xenophobia in the United States,
which meant that his eldest daughter was forbidden to speak Spanish
, something unheard of considering that their ancestors They were from Spain.
As a curious fact, it should be noted that
Armando's cousin, the Bolivian politician Lidia Gueiler Tejada
, was the first president of Bolivia and the second to be head of state without having royal blood.
According to the
Celebrity Net Worth
portal ,
Raquel Welch's fortune amounted to 40 million dollars
, which, along with her jewelry and real estate, will be distributed among her descendants.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more