From the Archives: In 1958 interview 18-year-old Raquel had heart set on professional acting career

Before she became famous as Raquel Welch, 18-year-old Raquel Tejada of La Jolla won San Diego's Fairest of the Fair pageant and spoke of her acting ambitions

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Her face has mobility. She squints, purses her lips, curls the corners of her mouth, rolls her eyes, squints them, frowns and makes grimaces which, if she were less magnificently endowed, would destroy, for a second, er beauty.What about this remark, “How I wanted this!”? She favors her father, Armand C. Tejada, and aircraft engineer and native of Bolivia. His parents went to Bolivia from Spain. Her mother, the former Josephine Hall, is blond, English and American with ancestors traced to colonial times.

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