She was a knockout pure and simple and awesome. Raquel was also in Fantastic Voyage, a movie in which she was "required" to wear a delightfully indiscreet scuba outfit. She went on to star in many other films such as 100 Rifles, Myra Breckenridge, and The Three Musketeers.
The most amazing thing about Welch is that despite her mind-boggling glamour, she seems in her deportment to be unaware of it. That makes it all the more effective.
She dazzles me to this day.
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She dazzles me to this day.
Here are some of her classic films.
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I love the Fantastic Voyage film, i can still recall being enthralled by it when I first saw it on TV as a kid and when i saw it again in the 1990s. There was no one like Rachel Welch a true original, beauty , brains and a very talented lady
ReplyDeleteUnlike many sex goddesses of the screen, Raquel didn't seem to be putting on. She was just herself and your mouth gaped open and your tongue spilled out onto the floor. (Thanks to Tex Avery for that image.)
DeleteShe had a physicality and beauty more in common with the European sex symbols of her era, more of an inherent athleticism and earthiness than the many squeaky, pouty blondes of American cinema. I had a fondness for the very 60's-style spy flick Fathom she did with the forgotten Tony Franciosa
ReplyDeleteWell said. She always looked rather like she might be able to do what she was doing in those flicks. I've never seen Fathom, though I've come across it a few times reading about her since her death. I'll have to check it out.
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