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Most Recent Role: Charlene Van Ness on Welcome to the Captain
Alias Name(s): Raquel Welsh, Raquel Tejada, Raquel Welsh-Palmer, Raquel Welsh-Curtis, Raquel Welsh-Weinfeld
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 9-5-1940
Birth Name: Jo Raquel Tejada

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Raquel Welch

Fozzie Bear gets serenaded by Raquel Welch.

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Welcome to the Captain
Mr. Big Meeting
Monday 3 March 2008 on CBS

Marty lands Josh a job with the president of Paramount, while Uncle Saul insists on helping with the pitch. Meanwhile Astrid stands in for Jesus while he checks the smoke detectors.

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Raquel was chosen as one of People Magazine's annual "100 Most Beautiful People in the World," in the Beauty Over 60 portion, in May 2007. (edit)
Raquel's various contest titles include: "Miss Photogenic", "Miss Contour" and "Miss Maid of California," which she received while she was still in her teens. (edit)
Raquel is one of the bombshells shown in the 1994 movie "The Shawshank Redemption." (edit)
Raquel once worked as a cocktail waitress. (edit)
Raquel had a notorious backstage feud with the indomitable Mae West on the set of 1970's "Myra Breckinridge." (edit)

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Raquel: Behind every successful man is a woman holding a brush and shovel cleaning up the shit he's too full of himself to notice. (edit)
Raquel: (presenting the Oscar for Visual Effects) My name is Raquel Welch. I am here for Visual Effects. And I have two of them. (edit)
Raquel: (on Mae West) I do think she was a spectacular talent. There's no question she was a comedic genius, but I did, in person, actually feel like she was some kind of a dock worker in drag. (edit)
Raquel: The mind is an erogenous zone. (edit)
Raquel: Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do. (edit)
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