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...Curt of Curtwel Enterprises is now separated from the Wel. Patrick Curtis has left Raquel Welch. Patrick, who has a distinctive acting record of his own (he played Olivia de HaviIland's baby in Gone With the Wind), discerned Raquel's talents when she was a nothing and hard-sold her into a Something. Said Raquel to an interviewer: " 'Ho-ho,' I say to him. 'You look like a real nasty Svengali. Aren't I glad you pulled me out of the gutter when I was just lying there with no teeth and flat...
...buddy met in 1964?smack in the poetic middle of Sunset Strip. It was business at first sight. As Raquel recalls it: "He saw me and I saw him, and we put our heads together." The result of this cerebral huddle was the creation?three weeks later?of Curtwel enterprises. Shortly thereafter, things began to happen. Bikini picture in LIFE. Billboard girl on ABC-TV's Hollywood Palace. Twentieth Century-Fox contract. Said Fox Talent Director Owen McLean: "We thought we would build her up slowly; that it would take some time. But she got more publicity by accident than...
...attention was almost, almost unbearable; in Italy, Raquel even took to toting a squirt gun to cool down ardent paparazzi who dared stick their heads in her Cadillac limousine. Nothing could deter the photographers, however. By February 1967, she and Pat decided it was time to seal the Curtwel merger. In Paris, bedecked in a crocheted minidress, Raquel took her marriage vows for the second time...
Three weeks after their epochal meeting Curtis and Welch were amalgamated into Curtwel productions. By 1967, they calculated that it was time to make the merger complete. In Paris, demurely outfitted in a crocheted wool miniskirt and a flowing train of photographers, Raquel took her second marriage vows, sighing confidentially, "I wish I had a double...
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