Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Really, Raquel" in English language version.
She went further and surprised the eager audience with a striptease! The dance ended with a "flash" of skin as she opened her gown for barely a second and the lights went down instantly.
Filming began in May 1969, but it was soon halted when Welch's Myra Breckinridge went into production. Filming resumed later that fall after the movie was finished.
The television special is adapted from Miss Welch's highly successful supper club production with which she rang in the 1973 New Year at a Las Vegas show room and continued to draw record audiences for almost a month.
At one point in the show she points to a marionette, costumed as her double. "I'm the real Raquel," she purrs. "The puppet is the bitch."
She did a very sexy strip out of this dress, with the lights going out instantly when she dropped the dress and exposed her pasty covered nipples.
She went further and surprised the eager audience with a striptease! The dance ended with a "flash" of skin as she opened her gown for barely a second and the lights went down instantly.
