Annette Funicello, whose girl-next-door beauty never ... They played a settled-down, married couple whose teenage son at one point remarks, “A long time ago my parents were the most popular ...

Gina Gilardi Bleifer still has fond memories of her mother Annette Funicello. The legendary Disney Mouseketeer passed away in 2013 from complications due to multiple sclerosis, a disease she ...

And she took her son along for the ride when a magazine ... “Usually it comes out in conversation that Annette Funicello is my mom. I never try and (use that) like that’s how I’m trying ...

Annette Funicello became America’s sweetheart when she joined “The Mickey Mouse Club” in 1955. She was 12. She charmed fans with her sweet, sunny personality on screen, but her cast mates ...

Annette Funicello, who was part of the original cast of the 1950's Disney television program, The Mickey Mouse Club, died Monday. She was 70 and had had multiple sclerosis for decades.

Annette Funicello, the most famous of Walt Disney's original Mouseketeers who died Monday at 70 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis, was not allowed to date until she was sweet 16.

Annette Funicello, whose pubescent pulchritude made her a standout on TV's first Mickey Mouse Club in the '50s and an early crush for many a Baby Boomer boy, died Monday at age 70 in Bakersfield ...

Before Britney and Christina, Annette set the pattern for perky teens on TV Annette Funicello, the ultimate Girl Next Door to a generation of Baby Boomers who first fell in love with her on the ...

This is Annette Funicello the original Mouseketeer, the ideal beach companion of the early 60s a few months short of her 50th birthday. The men are comically solemn about two missions: protecting ...