Walt Disney’s daughter said the nation lost a consummate professional and one of the loveliest people she has ever known with the death of Mouseketeer Annette Funicello. Funicello, the longtime ...

but the original Mousekeeter turned teen star was Annette Funicello, who has died at the age of 70 after a close relationship with Walt Disney himself defined her career. Funicello, Extra ...

The beach films featured ample youthful skin. But not Funicello's. She remembered in 1987: "Mr. Disney said to me one day, 'Annette, I have a favor to ask of you. I know all the girls are wearing ...

Annette Funicello ... She was taken off life support earlier today. Funicello was only 12 years old when she was hand-selected by Walt Disney to join The Mickey Mouse Club in 1955.

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 ...

This circa 1955 publicity photo released by The Walt Disney Company shows Annette (Annette Funicello) as a Mouseketeer from the Original Mickey Mouse Club. The stage at Walt Disney Studios where ...