Raquel Welch dead at 82
foxnews.comActress Raquel Welch died Wednesday, her representative confirmed to Fox News Digital. She was 82. The superstar catapult to fame in the sixties with "Fantastic Voyage" and "One Million Years B.C." Welch starred alongside a few of Hollywood's leading men through the years, including Frank Sinatra, Robert Wagner, James Stewart, Dean Martin and Burt Reynolds.
Her role as "Loana the Fair One" in "One Million Years B.C." where she rocked a "prehistoric" bikini almost didn't happen as Welch had zero interest in making a "dinosaur movie." "I told (Fox’s studio head) Dick Zanuck I didn’t think I was going to do it because it was a dinosaur movie and I didn’t want to be caught dead in a dinosaur movie," Welch told Fox News Digital. "And he was not sympathetic to that. "He said, ‘No, you’re going to do it Raquel.
And listen Raqui, you’re going to become a huge star!’ I said, ‘What? What am I even going to wear? What happened in dinosaur time?...
He said, ‘Don’t worry, they’ll figure something out.' And they sure did." Reluctantly, the then-26-year-old, who had already worked alongside her teen idol Elvis Presley in 1964’s "Roustabout," agreed to take on the role.
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