ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 8, 1:51 P.M.: Annette Funicello today ... TV broadcast of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. Here's a promo card: In 1958, Funicello (center) hung out at the park ...

I was a star-struck 9-year-old when I saw Annette Funicello in person ... s ABC series “Zorro,” on “The Wonderful World of Color” presentations “The Horsemasters” and “Escapade ...

A 1957 Ford Thunderbird that was originally owned by legendary Mousketeer Annette Funicello ... car was originally white, but Funicello repainted purple and the color changed several times since ...

Annette Funicello, who first gained fame as a 12-year ... repeatedly on ABC’s “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color.” She also recurred on “Make Room for Daddy” in 1959 as Gina ...

"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 ...

Apparently, the kind of person who has the audacity to die on the same day as screen legend Annette Funicello. I realize it might sound callous to argue that the death of one celebrity merits more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...