Raquel Welch, the 1960s international sex symbol whose acting career spanned more than half a century, died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 82.
Welch shot to stardom in the '60s with the films "Fantastic Voyage" and "One Million Years B.C." The pulpy movie poster for the latter famously featured Welch front and center in a doeskin bikini, and the rest was history.
"There was this bikini picture that came out that caused all the stir," she told the New York Post in 2014. "I had been away shooting the film in the Canary Islands, and it was very remote. By the time I got back, everybody seemed to know who I was. I couldn't have been happier, really, or more surprised. How was this possible?"
