Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite all that star power, the film ultimately ended up being a box office flop. But that didn't stop Disney Studios from making ...

See the update at the end of page 3 about a local blogger's pictorial tribute to Annette and funnymen busting out tweets. ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 8, 1:51 P.M.: Annette Funicello today “died peacefully ...

Funnicello charted 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1959 and 1961 (under the name “Annette”). Of those, two went top 10: “Tall Paul” (No. 7 in 1959) and “O Dio Mio” (No. 10, 1960). She ...

Annette Funicello, the 1950s and ’60s-era Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer who went on to star in a variety of beach movies with Frankie Avalon, has died from complications related to Multiple Sclerosis.

I grew up with Annette Funicello. She was my favorite older girl on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” a friendly face with a sweet voice. She started on the show in 1955 at age 13, the only cast member ...

LOS ANGELES (CNN) — Annette Funicello, one of the best-known members of the original 1950s “Mickey Mouse Club” and a star of numerous 1960s “beach party” films, died Monday at a California hospital, ...

Pop culture icon Annette Funicello, who began her TV and movie career as a 13-year-old member of the original Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s and grew into a movie star and singer and a teenage boy’s ...

Here are 9 fascinating facts about entertainer Annette Funicello, from her discovery by Walt Disney to her death from complications of multiple sclerosis. 1. Funicello was just 12 years old when Walt ...

Annette Funicello, the legendary Disney Mouseketeer, died at the age of 70 on Monday in California. Funicello was handpicked by Walt Disney to be one of the originals in his Mickey Mouse Club and ...

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 ...