

“I just thought it was a goofy dinosaur epic we’d be able to sweep under the carpet one day,” she told The Associated Press in 1981. Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she successfully evaded pterodactyls but not the notice of the public. Welch’s breakthrough came in the 1966’s campy prehistoric flick One Million Years BC, despite having a total of three lines. Welch passed away early on Wednesday after a brief illness, according to her agent, Stephen LaManna of the talent agency Innovative Artists. United States actress Raquel Welch - whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini for the film One Million Years BC propelled her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and ’70s - has died.
