Cinema, goodbye to Raquel Welch, sexy icon of the 60s

Actress

has died at 82 after a short illness.

She writes the site Tmz citing sources of the family. 

She became world famous in 1967 with a film called

.

She wore a fur bikini and moved among dinosaur models, the film was bad but she was immediately a sex symbol.

She became the sexy icon of the 60s

: amphora-shaped figure, with wide shoulders and hips, narrow waist, dizzying breasts and legs.

In fact, someone had taken care to launch it on the market with a strong advertising campaign of 92 covers in European and 16 American magazines, aimed at enhancing its beauty and irrepressible sensuality and carnality

The daughter of a Bolivian engineer and an Englishwoman, Raquel Tejada was prepared from childhood for an artistic career.

At the age of six she attends dance and acting courses, she appears like a meteor on the San Diego stage, at the age of 14 she wins her first beauty contest.

She dreams of becoming a supermodel, moves to Dallas where she thinks it's easier to pursue this career, makes a hole in the water, goes back to California and somehow manages to get a part in an Elvis Presley movie, Singer of

.

She makes a few appearances in films of no importance and here is the part that makes it public:

Since then you have acted with actors of great caliber, you have been directed by excellent directors, you have even worked with

improbably playing the part of a Neapolitan (colossal fiasco of the film, Mastroianni who produced it never tried again such experiments).

Too tied to her own sex appeal, her career began to decline over the years, without the actress knowing how to reinvent herself in the Hollywood star system.

You have worked for TV with good results.

As evidence of the longevity of her myth, she is still today, sixty years old, she remains among the ten most desired women in the world.