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Murray, Steve (July 13, 2001). "Witherspoon's not-so-smart role choice". The Atlanta Constitution. Archived from the original on February 16, 2023 . Retrieved February 16, 2023– via Newspapers.com. a b Navarro, Mireya (June 12, 2002). "I, Latina". The Albuquerque Tribune. Archived from the original on February 16, 2023 . Retrieved February 16, 2023– via Newspapers.com. In 2014, during an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, Welch described herself as being on the conservative side, attributing it to her mother's Midwestern values. [131] During the Vietnam War, Welch showed her support for the troops at United Service Organizations (USO) shows, often appearing with Bob Hope. [131] Death [ edit ] Fox loaned Welch to Hammer Studios in Britain where she starred in One Million Years B.C. (1966), a remake of the Hal Roach film One Million B.C. (1940). Her only costume was a two-piece deer skin bikini. She was described as "wearing mankind's first bikini" and the fur bikini was described as a "definitive look of the 1960s". [33] [34] The New York Times hailed her in its review of the film (which was released in the UK in 1966 and in the U.S. in 1967), "a marvelous breathing monument to womankind". [35] One author said, "although she had only three lines in the film, her luscious figure in a fur bikini made her a star and the dream girl of millions of young moviegoers". [20] A publicity still of her in the bikini became a bestselling poster and turned her into an instant pin-up girl. [36] The film raised Welch's stature as a leading sex symbol of the era. [37] In 2011, Time magazine listed Welch's B.C. bikini in the "Top Ten Bikinis in Pop Culture". [38] Goldstein, Norman (November 29, 1970). "Raquel Welch Charms Cyprus". The Tyler Courier-Times. Associated Press. Archived from the original on February 18, 2023 . Retrieved February 18, 2023– via Newspapers.com.

In her seminal 1964 essay “Notes on Camp”, Susan Sontag defined camp as “its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” Had she waited another two years, she might have added another example: that of the actress Raquel Welch, who has died aged 82, fighting dinosaurs while wearing a fur bikini in the film One Million Years BC. Guttridge, Peter (April 13, 1995). "Any chance of a chat, Raquel?". The Independent. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018 . Retrieved July 28, 2018.Hard to imagine emerging from any major studio in 2023, the 20th Century Fox release cast Welch as what we would now call a trans woman. “If a man were going to become a woman, he would want to become the most beautiful woman in the world,” the producer noted.

a b "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman season 2 episodes". TV Guide. Archived from the original on February 17, 2023 . Retrieved February 17, 2023.a b c d e f g h i Otfinoski, Steven (2007). Latinos in the arts. Infobase Publishing. p.243. ISBN 978-0-8160-6394-9. She was cast in small roles in two films, A House Is Not a Home (1964) and the musical Roustabout (1964), an Elvis Presley film. She also landed small roles on the television series Bewitched, McHale's Navy and The Virginian and appeared on the weekly variety series The Hollywood Palace as a billboard girl and presenter. She was one of many actresses who auditioned for the role of Mary Ann Summers on the television series Gilligan's Island.