Funicello (center) hung out at the park with Princess Sophia of Greece–and a chaperone (@corrected to reflect year given by Disneyland blog, which has posted even more photos of Annette at the ...

Pictures. Despite the word “bikini” in the title of two of her AIP films, Funicello ... her last screen appearance in a 1996 episode of “Biography” dedicated to her life. Annette Joanne ...

If you were a girl in the 1950s, Annette Funicello ... to change that?” Funicello received a big career boost when Disney agreed to loan her out to American International Pictures to make ...

But when the show told the story of Annette ... of how Funicello slipped from public view 15 years ago after going public about her disease. The story shows Funicello in her last TV role and ...

When she was 12 years old, Funicello was discovered by Walt Disney while performing in a production of Swan Lake as the Swan Queen. Disney cast her as one of the original "Mouseketeers,” and one ...

Annette Funicello made that declaration ... stars at his studio — fretted when, in 1963, Funicello was hired by American-International Pictures to star in "Beach Party," the first of the beach ...

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 ... in 1959 and "O Dio Mio" in 1960. When Funicello was 21, Disney told her he had been approached by American International Pictures about her making a beach movie.

Although single names were not in vogue at the time, Funicello’s popularity was so wide and her personality so familiar that she was “Annette.” No last name needed. The quintessence of ...