To Jericho McDuffie, Annette Joanne Funicello is and always will be “Annie” – or as McDuffie and her siblings would sometimes jokingly kid, “Granny Annie.” “She didn’t like ...

Annette Joanne Funicello was born on Oct. 22, 1942, in Utica, N.Y., and, as the first grandchild on either side of the family, was indulged to the point of being — in her own words — a ...

Annette Joanne Funicello was born in Utica, N.Y., on Oct. 22, 1942 and moved with her parents to Los Angeles when she was 4 years old. She made her debut on “The Mickey Mouse Club” in 1955 ...

Handpicked by Walt Disney to be one of the original Mouseketeers, Annette Funicello was America's girl next door. She spoke to Fresh Air in 1994 about Mickey Mouse ears and why she went public ...

dance just like her." Annette Joanne Funicello was born Oct. 22, 1942, in Utica, N.Y. She grew up in Southern California, where her father, an auto mechanic, had gone to find work. In her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OK, I admit it: Annette Funicello was my first dream crush. Mind you, I didn’t fall in love right away. Because, after all, when “The Mickey Mouse Club” premiered in 1955, I was barely out ...

If you were a girl in the 1950s, Annette Funicello was the ideal of feminine goodness, your fantasy best friend forever. If you were a boy, she was your dream date, demure, doe-eyed and just ...

By Duane Byrge Annette Funicello, the wide-eyed child star of TV’s The Mickey Mouse Club who became a pop-culture icon with her series of frolicking beach-movie roles opposite Frankie Avalon in ...