LYCOS RETRIEVER
Raquel Welch: Patrick Curtis
built 627 days ago
Welch appeared in a few more American films before divorcing hubby/manager Curtis, and returned to Europe in 1972. Raquel found herself in the unusual position of being a household name, but starring in films that not many people went to see. She received the recognition she sought as an actress when she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her performance in 1973's The Three Musketeers.
Source:
As for her private life, Welch has been married four times. She was once the wife of James Welch (1959-1964), Patrick Curtis (1964-1972), Andre Weinfeld (1980-1990) and Richard Palmer (1999-now). She is ... the mother of two, a son and a daughter.
Source:
While in Paris, Welch and manager Curtis married, issuing a series of provocative wedding night publicity photos. After appearing as Lust incarnate in Stanley Donen's seven-deadly-sins comedy Bedazzled, Welch finally returned to the U.S. Fox used her judiciously in pictures like the 1968 James Stewart Western Bandolero! and the Frank Sinatra mystery Lady in Cement.
Source:
Welch had resolved to not be relegated as simple eye candy in bit parts. A chance meeting in a Sunset Boulevard coffee shop with a young Hollywood publicist named Patrick Curtis helped facilitate her ambition. Curtis offered to manage her career, and helped her land a modest role in a 1965 teenage beach movie called A Swingin' Summer, which prompted a Variety film critic to remark: "It's hard to look away when she's in view."
Source: