Disneyland is gearing up for its 60th anniversary celebrations by auctioning off an estimated $1 million worth of rare and vintage memorabilia from the park's early days. From the first-ever Mickey ...

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 ...

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"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, ...

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 ...

Wildomar resident Nancy Abbate, 70, said she was known as “The Dancer” by fellow Mouseketeers and fans of Walt Disney’s “The Mickey Mouse Club.” But invariably she, like the rest of the 12 original ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a perky, cute-as-a-button Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s, then teamed up with Frankie Avalon in a string of '60s ...

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 ...

The most popular of the original Mickey Mouse Club ensemble of child Mouseketeers on ABC in the 1950s, Annette Funicello, died today of complications from multiple sclerosis. She and her husband had ...

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.