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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Raquel Welch has come aboard CBS' comedy pilot "The Captain," which revolves around the characters who live in an old Hollywood building. Welch will play a former TV star and bombshell.
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Raquel Welch movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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In 1970, Raquel starred in Myra Breckinridge, playing a transsexual(?). Numerous clashes with co-star Mae West would trouble this doomed production, which would be a complete failure. Whispers were now made, telling that Raquel was difficult to work with. Farrah Fawcett in her first movie role would admit that Raquel was bitchy with her. The accused defended herself, proclaiming to try to make the better with the pitiful scripts offered to her. At that point, the majority of people aware of her were seeing a lot of Raquel in the media and not necessarily going to her movies.
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Welch's first featured role was in A Swingin' Summer, which led to a contract with 20th Century Fox. She was then cast in the Sci-fi hit Fantastic Voyage (1966), which made her a star.
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In the British comedy Bedazzled, Raquel portrayed Lillian Lust. Co-star Dudley Moore would name her the 8thWonder of the World. She returned in the USA to join the cast of a western, Bandolero, and a thriller with the Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, Lady in Cement. She refused to star in The Valley of the Dolls, angering many movie producers. Another bizarre English comedy, The Magic Christian, proposed Raquel in a gladiatorial costume whipping some lucky/unlucky fellows on a galley. For another western, 100Rifles, Raquel posed with former football star Jim Brown in steamy publicity ads, which resulted in a mini-scandal for this unexpected interracial coupling.
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Ms. Dobson launched her film career in 1972 with a small role in "Fuzz," playing Yul Brynner's girlfriend (the film ... starred Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch). Her big break came in 1973 when she was cast in the title, pioneering role of "Cleopatra Jones," opposite Shelley Winters, Bernie Casey and Antonio Fargas. The film, directed by Jack Starrett, and written and co- produced by actor Max Julien ("The Mack"), introduced the first black super heroine to the silver screen; prior to Ms. Dobson's role, the blaxploitation genre had been distinguished primarily by black males doing battle with the white establishment, crooked cops, drug dealers and pimps. Her character inspired the creation of other tough, black female leads in movies such as "Coffey," "Foxy Brown," "Get Christie Love," and "Black Belt Jones," and Cleopatra Jones was parodied in "Austin Powers in Goldmember" (2002), which starred Mike Myers and Beyonce Knowles as Foxxy Cleopatra.
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