Happy birthday, Raquel Welch!

Okay, if she's 80 in that picture I'm jumping off a bridge! Seriously, she was smart to have that face and figure and survive Hollywood.

Are there any current pix of her 80 yr old self?

It is not her birthday until the September 5th.

Shes definitely worth acknowledging though.

10 years ago. But that photograph has had some "work."

I recall Alana Stewart posting a picture on social media were she had just visited Raquel Welch last year. However Raquel was barely visible in the picture you just saw from a distance Raquel wearing sunglasses and seeing Alana out of the front of the house but not much of her face visible in photo.

Perhaps Raquel is too vein to be seen in public much these days ?

Some sources had her birthday as Sept 1, but R3 is right.

Recent pic, taken 9 months ago.

Major pussy hound. Big Trump supporter.

Cancelled.

Happy birthday, Raqui!

From one glamour icon to another.

NOW it's really her birthday.

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republican...

People say she’s still a cunt

Slap a big blond wig on her in that photo at R6 and she'd be ready to play Mae West, her nemesis from "Myra Breckinridge."

R12, well, I'm sure she still has one.

R6, that photo wasn't taken 9 months ago, that was taken in 2010!

I'm sure OP meant well, but I rather doubt that Raquel, or anyone else, is "still flawless" at 80.

Dick Clark interviewing Raquel Welch in 1965 - pre One Million Years BC super fame. She's so much more natural and at ease here, even her voice is different.

She sells her wigs here. This may be where all the fab Hollywood ladies get their strands.

I recall celebrated Hollywood makeup artist George Masters saying back in the 1960s that Raquel was plastic from the neck down.

The actual quote was . . .

Hollywood makeup legend George Masters once called Welch, “silicone from the knees up,” but in One Million B.C., the pneumatic Raquel proved she could look better in leopard skin than a leopard.

She could do Norma Desmond now. She is kinda trashy like Gloria was.

Happy birthday, Miss Con-Tour "Fairest of the Fair," 1958.

R12, I watched her exiting the stage door of the Palace Theatre after a performance of Woman of the Year one Saturday evening.

The crowd was quite large, but she would not sign or pose. She just walked through the crowd to her waiting limo wearing a smile and sunglasses while her then husband Andre Weinfeld followed a few steps behind carrying a small dog.

She’s an asshole of the first degree.

Honor Blackman still looked lovely at 80. No "chimp" look at all.

If you're ever wondering what to wear to your son's wedding...

R25 That's Miss Blackman with the 'flamboyant aesthete Anthony Blanche'

Sophia Loren @ 85

R28, Airbrushed within an inch of her life.

I can't stand Sophia Loren, there I said it.

^. I half agree. A superannuated sex-pot.

Superannuated sex-pot Sophia appeared in more important movies than Superannuated sex-pot Raquel.

but Welch doesn't receive anything like the hallowed reverence Loren does, and neither should she

Sophia...

She’s very well spoken in the above video clip.

There are no current pictures of her because she is 80.

This is her just 3 years ago. She looks fine. How much can she have deteriorated in just 3 years?

[Quote] How much can she have deteriorated in just 3 years?

Someone on here told me that 39 vs. 45 is huge.

R37 she hasn't been seen much since she did the Press tour. I appreciate you posting it. Happy 80th Rocky!

[quote]How much can she have deteriorated in just 3 years?

Everything goes to hell at 80.

Racky!

R7, "Major pussy hound?" Are you saying Raquel is a lesbian?

She's the best looking 80 year old in history.

[quote]She's the best looking 80 year old in history.

Plastic surgery and fillers were much less effective in the days of, say, Queen Elizabeth I.

I don't give any credit for "aging beauty" if surgery and enough makeup to clog a drain is involved. Some people look good in old age because they have nice faces--i.e. did nice things all their lives and have the expression to match. On the other hand, great bone structure will last to the very end.

[quote] Some people look good in old age because they have nice faces--i.e. did nice things all their lives and have the expression to match.

So you're saying Mother Teresa must've been a bitch?

Christopher Hitchens thought so

OP's pic is from the 1960's or 70's. Really REALLY old.

R47 Christopher Hitchens thought Obama was nervous wreck who couldn't go for 15 minutes without a fag in his mouth.

R46, yes. Her late life depression indicates her life was delusional. She should have stayed as a teaching sister.

Well, her face does look like an asshole, r46.

How did her peers feel about her?

[Quote] How did her peers feel about her?

We bonded over our feelings about little homosexual boys.

I get the feeling that Welch was a dumb redneck after her remark that pretty Bill Millar (aka Stephen Boyd) must be homosexual because he was disinclined to fornicate with her.

I recall rumors of racial tension between Raquel and Jim Brown during the filming of "100 Rifles".

I remember Raquel guesting on The Mike Douglas Show and the audience roaring when co-host Totie Fields told Raquel that she was often mistaken for her.

It's a good thing her male co-star (John Richardson) was even more alluring, or my little gay self would have had a real struggle.

John Richardson was uber-alluring!

She loves Pat Robertson & his 700 Club.

Enough said.

John Richardson could go from ruff to pretty.

I never saw "One Million Years B.C.," so this movie was this gayling's introduction to John Richardson.

^ That movie was such a fizzer. Babs had a supporting role but the lead couldn't sing. The plot didn't go anywhere.

[quote] Babs had a supporting role

What??

She was a mentally-ill screwy woman and the film needed the psychiatrist to tell the story.

There's only one star that comes out of a Barbra Streisand movie, baby, and it sure wasn't that mush-mouthed Yves Montand.

Well, she certainly knew what she was doing with her nips and tucks over the years!

Can you imagine how much sexual harassment she was subjected to in the 60s and 70s! It's the reason she didn't have a bigger career! She never took the bait!

What an idiot!

WTF thread am I on? I thought this was Raquel Welch? She was great as Chutney's mom in Legally Blonde.

[Quote] She was great as Chutney's mom

?

Raquel meets Janis . . .

My dad -- who has no interest in talking about Hollywood or celebrities -- witnessed Ms. Welch throwing a major screaming fit at workers in the Broadway Department Store in Downtown LA in the late '80s. It sounded quite epic! I guess she was in a bad mood. Aside from that, I know little else about this woman.

She and Faye got along when they made the Musketeers film(s) together.

She turned down playing Jennifer in VOTD, but is it true she wanted to play Neely and FOX said no?

When these old sexpots turn into old sexkettles they do become Norma Desmond.

Raquel Welch was 50 in these photos - in Raquel’s defense regarding that outfit, the marriage lasted less than a year.

[Quote] in Raquel’s defense regarding that outfit, the marriage lasted less than a year.

... which was Raquel's wish?

Didn’t she do a sexy spread with Tahnee in the mid eighties?

The Broadway Department Store is one step above Sears, R70. Why would Raquel Welch be shopping there?

Maybe she wanted some support hose.