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2009

Raquel Welch, 1,000,000 Years BC and Back

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Raquel Welch became one of the leading sex symbols of the 1960s and 1970s. Her most memorable publicity still for One Million Years B.C. became a bestselling poster. Playboy called her the "Most Desired Woman" of the 1970s.

Welch's most controversial role by far came in the notorious "Myra Breckinridge" with Mae West. She took the part as the film's transsexual heroine in an attempt to be taken seriously as an actress, but the movie turned out to be a dismal failure.

Welch was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children and the daughter of Josephine Sarah (née Hall) and Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo. Her father, an aeronautical engineer, immigrated from La Paz, Bolivia; her mother was an Irish-American, the daughter of American architect Emery Stanford Hall (1869-1939) and wife Clara Louise Adams.

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Richard Hall - Raquel's mother NOT "Irish"!!

|For security purposes your IP has been logged.72.74.214.224 |2010-03-29 16:17:04

Raquel Welch's mother was Josephine Sarah Hall -daughter of Emery Stanford Hall
and Louise Hall (née Adams).

On her father's side Miss Welch can trace her
ancestry to the Mayflower. Her mother's people were similarly "Yankee"
(read DESCENDANTS OF ENGLISH IMMIGRANTS TO THESE SHORES)

Where you got the
erroneous idea that the surnames "Hall" and "Adams" were Irish
is beyond me. They're ENGLISH!

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