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To: V K Lee
Raquel Welch. Now, when I saw her in "Fantastic Voyage" wearing that skintight white neoprene suit, I was still at the stage in my life when I was just starting to look at girls and think they might not really be the enemy...

I saw it at the base theater in Yokosuka, Japan (the Benny Decker Theater) probably back in 1967.

When those guys all started pulling the antibodies off of Raquel Welch, my clothes started feeling kind of tight!

There was a funny story I heard about that scene.

Apparently, when the time came to shoot that scene, the director said "ACTION!" and the guys all began pulling the antibodies off of her. after a few seconds, he yelled "CUT!"

All the guys looked up in surprise and when one of them asked what was wrong, he pointed at Raquel who had all the antibodies removed from everywhere except on her boobs and her crotch. The director, pointing at her said "She looks like a damn burlesque dancer there!" Nobody had wanted to be, er..."ungentlemanly", so they all avoided those parts.

When they shot it again, they all went straight for her boobs and crotch at the same time as the director yelled "CUT! CUT!" Then he said to one guy "You remove them from here!" as he pointed to each of them and assigned an area for them to remove antibodies from!

8 posted on 06/17/2023 7:38:50 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: rlmorel
That's a funny story! Thanks.

I just found this item on silverscenesblog:

"Dale Hennesy and Jack Martin Smith were responsible for the art direction of Fantastic Voyage while Stuart A. Reiss and Walter M. Scott handled set decor. Hennesy was also the production designer for Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ) and King Kong ( 1976 )."
It's weird -- "Young Frankenstein" seems so much newer than "Fantastic Voyage." There are some good set photographs at the site, too. Also another great photograph of Ms. Welch "taking a breather." (LOL)


14 posted on 06/17/2023 8:24:29 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: rlmorel

https://twitter.com/i/status/1438159024298635267


16 posted on 06/17/2023 8:26:36 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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