As Raquel Welch instructed it in her guide:

“I used to be examined for ‘Thunderball.’ Producer Cubby Broccoli had seen my picture in a Life journal format referred to as ‘The Finish of the Nice Lady Drought!’ He referred to as Jack Gilardi, my agent at GAC, and the next buzz round city created a lot pleasure that it enabled me to bag a long-term contract at twentieth Century Fox. However due to a technicality involving begin dates and contract choices, Fox put me within the sci-fi basic ‘Implausible Voyage.'”

The Life Journal in query was, by the way, the October 1964 challenge. You’ll be able to learn it on-line.

“Implausible Voyage,” by the way, was a sci-fi story about scientist who was shot and develops a blood clot in his mind. The one method to treatment the ailment is for the U.S. and Soviet Union to pool their assets and put into observe a novel shrinking expertise. They then shrink a staff of scientists and their very own private submarine to microscopic measurement and inject them into the comatose scientist’s blood stream. The movie was a notable hit, and have some relatively eye-popping particular impacts which received the movie one in every of its two Academy Awards (the opposite was for its artwork course). Welch performed one of many miniature scientists and spent the majority of the film in a white jumpsuit, and had a number of scenes swimming by way of human plasma. She admitted she would have relatively gone to a seashore with James Bond:

“I used to be disenchanted. Right here I used to be able to snuggle as much as Sean Connery however was assigned to eight months floating by way of the human bloodstream in a moist swimsuit as a substitute.”