The photograph of Raquel Welch in a fur bikini from ‘One Million years BC’ catapulted her to global fame, but left her forever typecast as a sex symbol.
LOS ANGELES – When Raquel Welch donned a deerskin bikini for a 1966 caveman screen epic, she became one of the hottest sex symbols of her time, a role she never felt able to escape.
The film was mediocre, but the poster for “One Million Years BC” went round the world, taking her with it and making both of them an indelible part of cinema history.
“With the release of that famous movie poster, in one fell swoop, everything in my life changed and everything about the real me was swept away,” Welch wrote in her 2010 autobiography “Beyond the Cleavage.”
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