Welch’s breakthrough came in 1966′s campy prehistoric flick “One Million Years B.C.,” despite having a grand total of three lines.
Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she successfully evaded pterodactyls but not the notice of the public.
Her curves and beauty captured pop culture attention, with Playboy crowning her the “most desired woman” of the ’70s, despite never being completely naked in the magazine. In 2013, she graced the No. 2 spot on Men’s Health’s “Hottest Women of All Time” list. In the film “The Shawshank Redemption,” a poster of Welch is used to cover an escape tunnel, the last of three women he used images of after Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe.
Welch was born Jo-Raquel Tejada in Chicago and raised in La Jolla, California. . Welch was a divorced mother when she met exactor turned press agent, Patrick Curtis.
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