Anka wrote his song hit song "Puppy Love" about Funicello Hulton Archive/Getty Though things didn't work out between Paula Anka and the late Annette ... the marriage thing just scared me.” ...

Annette Funicello obituary ... along with a string of commercials for Skippy peanut butter. Her marriage to Gilardi ended in divorce in 1982. In 1986, she married Glen Holt, a family friend ...

Her marriage ended in divorce in 1982 ... Donations in her honor can be sent to the Annette Funicello Research Fund for Neurological Disorders. Today Co-Host Sheinelle Jones' Husband Uche Ojeh ...

To Jericho McDuffie, Annette Joanne Funicello is and always will be ... Funicello had three children and grandchildren from her first marriage to agent Jack Gilardi. McDuffie’s grandfather ...

Annette Funicello, whose girl-next-door beauty never ... An untold number of those missives proposed marriage. “I really didn’t know how popular I was at first,” she once told film critic ...

By Duane Byrge Annette Funicello, the wide-eyed child star of ... Her first toplining movie role was playing Avalon’s marriage-minded sweetheart, Dolores, aka Dee Dee, in Beach Party (1963).

The shift in teen tastes begun by the Beatles in 1964 and Funicello's first marriage the following year ... "Mr. Disney said to me one day, 'Annette, I have a favor to ask of you.

NEW YORK (AP) — Annette Funicello ... The shift in teen tastes begun by the Beatles in 1964 and Funicello's first marriage the following year pretty much killed off the beach-movie genre.

Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a cute ... and they continued to tell her it was a puppy love, and marriage should not be in question. And I wrote about it.’’ ...

Annette Funicello, who first gained fame as a 12 ... In addition to Holt, Funicello is survived by three children from her marriage to Gilardi: sons Jack Gilardi Jr., a producer, and Jason Gilardi ...