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 ...

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 ...