You can really own a piece of history here,” bellowed auctioneer John Fornengo, a patrician chap whose brow so beaded with perspiration during the sale of Annette Funicello`s Size 10 Sirena ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I did, and I never regretted it.” — Annette Funicello recalling the advice from original mentor Walt Disney, reports AP, when she graduated from the “Mickey Mouse Club” to the beach movies.