Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mike Nichols had spent six months looking for the right girl to play the part. He had considered and rejected Raquel Welch, Jane Fonda, Dyan Cannon, Natalie Wood. One night Critic Kenneth Tynan's wife suggested Ann-Margret. Nichols smiled, but a screen test convinced...
...played the best players of the last two decades," said Tennis Pro Jacques Grigry, "and I've never played one with better form." Bystanders may have wondered exactly what Grigry meant; still, there was no question that Actress Raquel Welch showed signs of developing an athletic prowess that might well surpass her dramatic skill. Ducking a tenacious flock of reporters eager to hear about her recent split from Husband Patrick Curtis, Raquel took up tennis and even skiing, in which she moved from beginner to high-intermediate status in three days. Add roller skating (she plays a rink queen...
...been butchered. "Who's That Woman?" sounds like it was written to stop the show-even without the spectacular dance that accompanies it on stage. But the first "show-stopper" is a medley of three "follies" routines, each performed with geriatric gusto by old time performers Marcie Stringer, Charles Welch, Fifi d'Orsay and Ethel Shutta, who do their numbers separately (the first two as a duet) and then sing them simultaneously as a kind of old timers freak show. On the album the duet ("Rain on the Roof") has been cut entirely. Miss d'Orsay gets about one minute...
...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...
...Angeles' Yves St. Laurent boutique is selling out every shipment that arrives; the favorite is a slightly flared, black velvet model ($60), with satin and crepe versions ($50) coming up fast. Actress Ursula Andress dines out in her bronze velvet shorts, and Raquel Welch had a special pair in white matte jersey run up for her to take on location in Spain. Staider ladies are rushing L.A.'s May Co. department store for their dotted-swiss knit mini over shorts ($26) or settling for Magnin's shorts-and-sweater outfit...