When she traded in her Mousketeer ears for a surfboard and a modest one-piece bathing suit, Annette Funicello helped create a world as fanciful as Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom. It was the land of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this 1963 file photo, singer Frankie Avalon and actress Annette Funicello are seen on Malibu Beach during filming of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the ever-changing landscape of American pop culture, only a precious few manage to grow up in front of an audience and remain ...

Nancy Sinatra honored her late friend, Annette Funicello, on what would have been her 83rd birthday more than 12 years after the former Mickey Mouse Club star’s death. On October 22, the singer and ...

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 with ...

Actress Annette Funicello, long-time Disney and Beach Party star, passed away on Monday April 8 at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, CA, at the age of 70. She died peacefully from complications ...

Annette Funicello, whose girl-next-door beauty never faded for millions of American baby boomers who met her as a Mouseketeer in the 1950s, idolized her through her beach movies of the 1960s and ...

It’s a sad day in the mouse house. Disney darling Annette Funicello died on Monday at the age of 70 from compilations of multiple sclerosis. Her family confirmed her death to Extra and said they were ...

American sweetheart Annette Funicello passed away on Monday after a lengthy battle with multiple sclerosis at the age of 70. From childhood she became a beloved Disney television star and a television ...

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 insist she ...

NEW YORK — Annette Funicello — who won America’s heart as a 12-year-old in Mickey Mouse ears, captivated adolescent baby boomers in slightly spicy beach movies, and later championed people with ...

Today we know all too much about former Mickey Mouse Club stars like Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Ryan Gosling, but the original Mousekeeter turned teen star was Annette ...