Raquel!

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Product Description Take a trip down memory lane with two pop-culture icons as Raquel welcomes Tom Jones to her 1970 TV special. Review Join the singer-actress and her guests Tom Jones, John Wayne and Bob Hope for this magical evening. --Entertainment WeeklyKitsch lives! And you can't get Kitschier than Raquel!... You haven't lived until you've seen the Raq and Bob do a skit based on the Beatle's 'Rocky Raccoon' Like the box says, 'Glamorous & Groovy! Sexy & Smart! Winning & Witty!' Whew, I'm out of breath. Did I mention Bob Mackie did the costumes? Alfredo Garcia, Film Threat --Alfredo Garcia, Film ThreatYes, Raquel Welch, and she dances. Quite engagingly, too, I may add. She easily parlays great beauty into being a satisfying performer. While the show cuts to all over the world, it is never frenetic and it is often laid-back I enjoyed this Video and you might, too. --Attitude Dance Magazine P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Actor Born in Chicago as Jo Raquel Tejada in 1940, Raquel Welch spent the next three decades solidifying herself as one of the most famed sex symbols of all time. Her father, an aerospace engineer, moved the family to the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, California in 1942. During Raquel's teenage years she won a variety of beauty contests, but her love of acting led her to accept a theater scholarship to San Diego State University. A year later she married her high school sweetheart, James Welch.After landing a job as a weather girl for a local TV station, Raquel left college and began her family. However, when the marriage failed, Raquel and her two children relocated to Dallas, TX, where she did department store modeling and moonlighted as a cocktail waitress. In 1963, Raquel moved her family back to California and within days met a manager, Patrick Curtis, who jump-started her career.Raquel earned roles in the Elvis Presley film Roustabout and 1964's A House Is Not a Home, but it was after posing in a bikini for a Life Magazine photo shoot, and appearing in the BBC's One Million Years B.C., where Raquel dressed as a scantily clad cave-woman, that she became a known celebrity and achieved her status of sex symbol and pin-up girl superstar.Raquel Welch's varied acting, music, and modeling career has now spanned over four decades and includes successful roles the TV shows such as 8 Simple Rules and in films such as Legally Blonde and Tortilla Soup. Although Raquel never received the critical acclaim or box-office success she desired, she developed a devout following of admirers and has become one of the most enduring celebrity figures and recognizable faces of the past half-century. See more