FILE - Raquel Welch appears at the Los Angeles premiere of "How to Be a Latin Lover" on April 26, 2017. Welch, famed as a sex symbol in the 1960s and '70s, died Feb. 15, 2023, at age 82.

While Welch took the surname of her first husband, James Welch, to whom she was married from 1959 to 1964, she refused to get rid of Raquel — the Spanish variant of Rachel.

RIP Raquel Welch, the Star Who Helped Redefine American Beauty by Kyle Munzenrieder Feb. 15, 2023 Photo by Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images ...

The doc, which premiered on Saturday, March 8, alleges that Welch - who died in 2023 at the age of 82 - was told to essentially hide her ethnicity for the sake of her budding career in Hollywood.

And for a time more than five decades ago, Raquel Welch was the fashion. Subscribe to The American Spectator to receive the entirety of Dan Flynn’s Spectator A.M. newsletter.

Raquel Welch died Wednesday at the age of 82 following a brief illness. The Golden Globe award winner became a sex symbol after finding fame in the '60s.

Raquel Welch, an international sex symbol and icon of the 1960s and 70s has died after a brief illness, according to her management company Media Four. Welch was 82.

Actress Raquel Welch, who helped reshape the traditional image of the Hollywood sex symbol in an era when the movie industry was still overtly defining an idealized version of sensuality for mass ...

I Am Raquel Welch is directed by actor Olivia Cheng in her first documentary and feature directorial debut. Cheng brilliantly sets up the story of Welch’s life as more than just a story of a ...

Raquel Welch rose to stardom and became a sex symbol in the 1960s. What was Welch's real name? Here's what we know.

The doc, which premiered on Saturday, March 8, alleges that Welch — who died in 2023 at the age of 82 — was told to essentially hide her ethnicity for the sake of her budding career in ...