ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 8, 1:51 P.M.: Annette Funicello today “died peacefully from complications due to multiple sclerosis, a disease she battled for over 25 years,” according to a statement ...

Annette Funicello, whose girl-next-door beauty never faded for millions of American baby boomers who met her as a Mouseketeer in the 1950s, idolized her through her beach movies of the 1960s and ...

Multiple sclerosis made Annette Funicello a prisoner in her own body, robbing the world’s favorite Mouseketeer of her ability to walk, talk and beam the radiant smile that beguiled an army of ...

Annette Funicello, who first gained fame as a 12-year-old Mousekeeter on Disney’s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s and then starred opposite Frankie Avalon in a series of musical beach ...