# Raquel Welch has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [February 15, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852 "2023-02-15T21:02:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/41 "2023-02-16T18:42:37Z")
Yes, there was a definite Latina vibe. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/42 "2023-02-16T18:48:09Z")
Sophia comes close. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/43 "2023-02-16T18:53:14Z")
That’s true. And a better actress. But Sophia Loren seems almost a previous generation, probably because she was established when I became aware of her and not when Raquel Welch came onto the scene. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/44 "2023-02-16T19:11:58Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Yes, there was a definite Latina vibe. Well, her father was Bolivian. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/45 "2023-02-16T19:14:02Z")
Miss Tejada, later Mrs. Welch, brought it, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/46 "2023-02-16T19:22:11Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > Can you name an actress with that sort of gobstopping beauty? I really can’t, can’t even come up with someone comparable in that one regard. One of a kind, really. I’ve got Raquel Welch in the same mental folder I keep Ann-Margaret. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/47 "2023-02-16T20:54:28Z")
She was a decent actress but she was cast in sex symbol roles, not the kind of stuff the ‘serious’ leading ladies of the time were in. In a variety of movies she showed some acting ability here and there. Hard to say what would have happened if she’d had better parts and direction. I think she had more grounded roles in Mother, Jugs, and Speed, as well as Kansas City Bomber. She received some notice from The Three Musketeers and its sequel, but those were small parts, again focused on her sex appeal. Farewell Raquel. You were exceptionally beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/48 "2023-02-16T20:55:42Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > Can you name an actress with that sort of gobstopping beauty? Vivien Leigh? Olivia deHavilland? Ingrid Bergman? Jeanne Crain? Marilyn Monroe? Natalie Wood? ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/49 "2023-02-16T21:01:21Z")
Monroe, yes. But she was dead by the time Welch first appeared on screen. The others are all what I’d call a step below her spectacular transcendent beauty. So far, we’ve got Monroe and Loren, both of a previous generation. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/50 "2023-02-16T21:02:01Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Mother, Jugs, and Speed, as well as Kansas City Bomber All four great films! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/51 "2023-02-16T21:14:12Z")
Bergman was gorgeous in _ **Casablanca** _, but absolutely breathtaking opposite Spencer Tracy in _ **Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde** _. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/52 "2023-02-16T22:57:26Z")
I was not aware of her Latin background. From the NYT article below (gift): > [@](#): > > Jo-Raquel Tejada was born in Chicago on Sept. 5, 1940, the oldest of three children of Armando Carlos Tejada, a Bolivian-born aeronautical engineer, and Josephine Sarah (Hall) Tejada, an American of English descent. They had met as students at the University of Illinois. and > [@](#): > > Few thought of Ms. Welch as a Latina actress, but [she embraced that identity late in her career](https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/movies/raquel-welch-reinvented-latina-familiar-actress-now-boasts-her-heritage.html?smid=tw-share), starring as a melodramatic Mexican American aunt on “American Family,” a PBS series (2002). She learned to speak Spanish in her 60s; her father had not allowed the language to be spoken at home when she was growing up. > Her last film was “How to Be a Latin Lover” (2017), a comic drama about an aging gigolo, played by Eugenio Derbez. She played his new target — a disarming, too-glamorous-to-be-true grandmother. Her final television appearances were on “Date My Dad” (2017), a Canadian American series, in a recurring role as the leading man’s Mexican mother-in-law. [https://nyti.ms/3KeOa30](https://nyti.ms/3KeOa30) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/53 "2023-02-17T00:37:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Vivien Leigh? Olivia deHavilland? Ingrid Bergman? Jeanne Crain? Marilyn Monroe? Natalie Wood? Also young Liz Taylor. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/54 "2023-02-17T03:24:54Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Without comment… How did a music video come to be in 1970? I thought it was tied to A 2001 Space Odyssey but that came out 2 years earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/55 "2023-02-17T03:29:04Z")
Forgot to mention, I heard on the news she had an IQ of 140. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/56 "2023-02-17T03:29:09Z")
_Raquel!_ was an April 26, 1970 CBS television special starring Raquel Welch, Tom Jones, Bob Hope and John Wayne executive produced, directed and choreographed by David Winters. She used sites left over from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics to film a few other videos like this one. She also filmed this at the nearby Teotihuacán pyramids: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/APVw8323XOk/hqdefault.jpg "Raquel Welch - Aquarius & Let The Sunshine In") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APVw8323XOk) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/57 "2023-02-17T04:36:18Z")
😵‍💫 Oooookayyy… One can only imagine how much of _that_ production budget was chemicals for ingestion. What a time that was. Though Raquel GoGo-ing atop the Teotihaucan temple is something to see, can’t deny that. … (And from the 2023 perspective… Holy Cultural Appropriation, Batman. The past IS a foreign country. Think anyone stopped to remember what was it the Mesoamericans did to people to ensure that the sun kept shining…?) ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/58 "2023-02-17T11:30:06Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > She learned to speak Spanish in her 60s I wonder how fluent she was. Are there any clips of her speaking Spanish? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/59 "2023-02-17T11:53:55Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > She did win a Golden Globe, for _The Three Musketeers_ (1974), though that was primarily a comedic role, and her character was a sexy airhead (so, she was playing to type). In the book the character is a smart shrewd woman pretending to be a sexy airhead to hide her involvement in court intrigue. I can’t remember how much of that translated to the film though. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Let us not forget she played the role of Lust in _Bedazzled_, which Peter Cook and Dudley Moore wanted to just name _Raquel Welch is Lust_! Or that Moore wore multiple pairs of underpants to film that bedroom scene to avoid any potential embarrassment. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852/60 "2023-02-17T12:51:02Z")
He should have said like: “something may or may not happen; either way I apologize”. I think that’s paraphrasing Michael Caine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raquel-welch-has-died/979852.md?page=4)