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...classmate and boyfriend, James Welch, thought so. A year after she graduated in 1958, he married the Fairest of the Fair. They had two children, Damon and Tahnee. Raquel the housewife interspersed domestic chores with dramatics classes at San Diego State College, and soon grew restive. After three years, the Welches parted?"inevitably," Welch now feels. Raquel headed for Dallas, where she made enough money modeling for Neiman-Marcus and hustling cocktails to have her nose fixed before assaulting Hollywood...
...Raquel's screenland novitiate was typically rugged. She lived in a $70-a-month apartment with her children. She had no job, no car, and her only income was a meager allowance from Welch, who by that time was serving with the Green Berets in Southeast Asia. Raquel, ever resourceful, tied up with Agent Noel Marshall, who coached her in the fundamentals of studio saleswomanship. Every day she rose at 6 a.m., dropped her children at a day-care center and set off on her unappointed rounds of photographers. It was a dreary life, but she kept plugging, waiting...
Destiny's child and Beaver's 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...
...microscopic nightmare, Fantastic Voyage (her best line, to a leering Stephen Boyd: "I run the laser beam here. That should tell you where to keep your hands"). After that, Fox lent her to Britain's Hammer Film Productions for its reprise of One Million Years B.C. Says Raquel: "It was the kind of movie you do just to go to Europe and hope everyone will forget...
...seen B.C. will ever forget it. It was a ghastly, primeval Romeo and Juliet, with the Shell and Rock families replacing the houses of Montague and Capulet. Loana Shell (Raquel) and Tumak Rock (John Richardson) meet and fall agonizingly in love. Agonizingly, because he already has a mate back in the Rock family cave. Besides, every time they get together, a Tyrannosaurus rex clamps onto the scene or the families start crushing one another's noggins with clubs. After an apocalyptic earthquake, Loana stalks off with her inamorato, presumably to become The Second Mrs. Tumak...