Dueting with Miss Piggy on The Muppet Show;
IT WASN’T THE most promising of beginnings. In 1966’s One Million Years B.C., Raquel Welch had just three lines of dialogue and wore scraps of fur, as a cavewoman braving prehistoric beasts. The same year, she appeared in sci-fi Fantastic Voyage as tech assistant Cora Peterson. Reviews of the former focused on her looks, and she became an instant pin-up icon. But during a career that spanned over 50 years, Welch — who passed away in February, aged 82 — proved to be so much more, reinventing her sex-symbol image and becoming an emblem of power and vitality.