Racquel Welch has passed away at 82! (1 Viewer)

[Tony Bensley]

Racquel Welch has sadly passed away at age 82 after a brief illness!

Hollywood megastar Raquel Welch dies after 'brief illness' as fans pay tribute

Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C. star Raquel Welch has died aged 82 following a 'brief illness', according to her heartbroken family

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[The 1960's]

Racquel Welch has sadly passed away at age 82 after a brief illness!

Hollywood megastar Raquel Welch dies after 'brief illness' as fans pay tribute

Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C. star Raquel Welch has died aged 82 following a 'brief illness', according to her heartbroken family

www.mirror.co.uk

Sometimes I'm sorry that I'm reading this forum.

 

[RobertMG]

Rest In Peace Ms W -- Heaven just got even lovelier

 

[Joe Wong]

RIP, Ms Welch.

 

[DigniT@DigniT!]

WOW! I am saddened. I did some personal training for her in NYC at the Paris Health Club in the 80s. She was a complicated but ultimately sweet woman.

 

[John Dirk]

This one hits hard as I considered her the very definition of timeless beauty and figured timeless longevity would be hers as well. I fully believed she would be turning heads at 100 plus.

Yet another legend has left us.

 

[Tino]

So sad. RIP beautiful lady.

 

[RobertMG]

All of the 80 plus stars we are losing were all wonderful guests on Johnny Carson spend time with the clips on youtube and see what late night was really about comedy SO many lost in the last few years they live on thanks to Carsons archives

 

[Thomas T]

One of the great beauties of the screen and an underrated actress. So many of the icons of my youth are passing.

 

[jayembee]

 

[Sultanofcinema]

I remember seeing her in both One Million Years BC and Fantastic Voyage as well as Bandolero, Flareup And Lady In Cement when they opened. Loved her in the Three And Four Musketeers. Great story. Dir/Writer/Producer Tom Mankiewicz was directing Mother Juggs And Speed. Tom was warned by Robert Donner that she might me difficult and ask for certain things. He visited Raquel in her trailer the first day and she told Tom she felt her trailer was smaller than Bill Crosby's. He assured her it was the same size and that because she brought along her personal makeup artist, hairdresser and assorted other assistants that they took up more room in her trailer. She again asked him to find her a larger trailer. He told her OK, did nothing and the issue went away. I also remember when she sued UA publicity Dept over being in the red white and blue bikini on the one sheet of Fuzz as she was never in that bikini in the film. Lastly, she would have been Domino in Thunderball and Zanuck from Fox asked/wanted Cubby Broccoli to release her for her role in One Million Years BC.

 

[RICK BOND]

One Million Years B.C. R.I.P. Raquel

 

[Doug Wallen]

Such a gorgeous beauty, even in her "golden" years. First memorable appearance for me was Fantastic Voyage and she became my favorite once I saw  Fathom!!!

 

[Matt Hough]

One of those beauties one assumes will live forever. What a shocking bit of news! R.I.P., Myra Breckinridge.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

She was very sexy in The Biggest Bundle of Them All which i viewed a few months ago on TCM. Rest in Peace.

 

[bujaki]

My wife saw her on stage in Victor/Victoria. (!!) How she could hide all that femaleness and play a woman playing a man impersonating a woman, is beyond me. A great beauty and a Hispanic woman, lest we forget.
May she RIP.

 

[Capt D McMars]

She will always be...

 

[Walter Kittel]

Sorry to hear of her passing. May she RIP.

In terms of sex appeal, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention her memorable role as Lilian Lust in 1967's Bedazzled. (There was obviously more to her than just her appearance, but it was that beauty that skyrocketed her to fame.)

- Walter.

 

[Robin9]

I was never a fan and I won't miss her, but I must admit at this moment of her passing that that she was really good in both The Wild Party and Fuzz. Perhaps if she had worked with better screenplays and better directors, she might have made a bigger contribution.

 

[Sam Favate]

When I was a very young child (3? 4? 5?), I asked my mother who were the best-looking people in the world - the handsomest man and the most beautiful woman? She said Robert Redford and Raquel Welch. So, for more than 50 years, I’ve always had in my head that Raquel is the epitome of beauty, and she always will be.
RIP.