Remembering Raquel Welch Through Her Most Notable Roles

Raquel Welch was just 24, and had less than a dozen TV credits under belt (including guest spots on "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Bewitched"), when she was cast in "Fantastic Voyage", in which she played a member of a medical team shrunk down to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream of a scientist in order to save his life after an assassination attempt.

“I was terribly unsure of myself,“ she recalled in an interview. “I remember, when I was doing ‘Fantastic Voyage', every day for five months I’d sit in the commissary at lunch with [co-stars] Stephen Boyd and Edmond O’Brien and Donald Pleasance and I’d hardly know what they were talking about. It wasn’t only things about acting, but words I didn’t know and restaurants and foods I’d never heard of. And I’d try to act sophisticated and knowing, but I wasn’t.”