Raquel Welch Articles

Raquel Welch will join Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies this spring to present four of her favorite films in TCM's "Guest Programmer" series on Thursday, April 1. Welch will discuss Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall's To Have and Have Not, in addition to a couple of films featuring strong-willed women: George Cukor's Adam's Rib, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes [...]

Ken Annakin, best remembered for directing the big-budget 1965 adventure comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, died of natural causes on Wednesday, April 22, at his home in Beverly Hills. He had suffered a stroke and a heart attack in February, and had been in poor health since. Like fellow British filmmaker Jack Cardiff, who also died on April 22, Annakin was 94. [...]

Raquel Welch, Myra Breckinridge In Time Out New York, Melissa Anderson chats with Raquel Welch about the making of the epic 1970 disaster Myra Breckinridge, based on a Gore Vidal novel, starring Welch, Rex Reed, John Huston, and Mae West, and directed by former pop singer and film critic Michael Sarne. A brief excerpt, in which Welch discusses West (right), who at the time of [...]