New York - Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a perky, cute-as-a-button Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s, then teamed up with Frankie Avalon on a string of '60s ...

A 1957 Ford Thunderbird that was originally owned by legendary Mousketeer Annette Funicello has been auctioned for a high, high, high, high $150,000. The two-seat convertible was Funicello's first ...

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 ...

From the first-ever Mickey Mouse wristwatch to Annette Funicello's bronzed Mickey Mouse Club ears, superfans from all over the world will bid to own a piece of Disney's beginnings at Collecting ...

The stage at Walt Disney Studios where "The Mickey Mouse Club" was filmed is now officially the Annette Funicello Stage. Disney chief Bob Iger led a ceremony Monday, June 24, 2013, dedicating the ...

Sound stage No. 1 was dedicated as the Annette Funicello Stage. It's the place where Funicello became a child TV star on Disney's "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s. During her days with Disney ...

"I am the girl next door. And I'm not moving." Annette Funicello made that declaration in 1965, in the curiously titled film "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini." Playing beach girl Didi in the film ...

Not a hint of ethnicity. Look at a photo of the original Mickey Mouse Club cast, and Annette Funicello stands out because her hair was dark, her eyebrows bushy, her skin olive. She was the only ...

And just hours later (so it seemed), the world lost original Mousketeer and crush of many young 1950s prepubescent boys Annette Funicello. Funicello was on the first Mickey Mouse Club from 1955 ...