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.

As the new CW documentary I Am Raquel Welch convincingly points out, the late actress, who died in 2023 at age 82, was also the first female action star. Movies like 1968's Bandolero!, 1969's 100 ...

Raquel Welch was celebrated as one of the most beautiful stars in Hollywood, but on and off screen, she was so much more than her pretty face. As the new CW documentary I Am Raquel Welch ...

"She was saying they wanted to change her hair, her look, her name," Gregory Nava, a director who worked with Welch on American Family, says in the film. "Her manager at the time was saying, ‘No ...

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.

As the new CW documentary I Am Raquel Welch convincingly points out, the late actress, who died in 2023 at age 82, was also the first female action star. Movies like 1968's Bandolero!, 1969's 100 ...