Annette Funicello — who won American hearts as a 12-year-old in Mickey Mouse ears, captivated baby boomers with slightly spicy beach movies and later championed people with multiple sclerosis, which ...

Annette Funicello, who first gained fame as a 12-year-old Mousekeeter on Disney’s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s and then starred opposite Frankie Avalon in a series of musical beach party films ...

Maybe there are better things to be remembered for than the lyric, "Tall Paul is my love, Tall Paul is my dream, Tall Paul is the captain of the high-school football team", but its positive promotion ...

Actress Annette Funicillo, the most popular Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club," who went on to a successful career in records and '60s beach party movies, died Monday, The Walt Disney Company said ...

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 battled ...

A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story is a really bad movie. But that’s missing the point. Its purpose is to bring the original Mousketeer’s fans up to date on her ...

The wholesome actress starred on Disney's 'Mickey Mouse Club' and in several 1960s beach movies with Frankie Avalon. By Duane Byrge Annette Funicello, the wide-eyed child star of TV’s The Mickey Mouse ...