Annette Funicello with her frequent co-star Frankie Avalon, in the 1965 comedy-musical "Beach Blanket Bingo." (YouTube/MGM) Annette Funicello, famed Mouseketeer and star of 1960s beach movies, has ...

"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, ...

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 ...

Actress Annette Funicillo, the most popular Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club," who went on to a successful career in records and '60s beach party movies, died Monday, The Walt Disney Company said ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

Funnicello charted 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1959 and 1961 (under the name “Annette”). Of those, two went top 10: “Tall Paul” (No. 7 in 1959) and “O Dio Mio” (No. 10, 1960). She ...

Annette Funicello, the most beloved of the early Walt Disney Mouseketeers and a pioneer teen star, died Monday at a hospital in Bakersfield, Calif. She was 70. She spent more than two decades in a ...

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’s ...

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 ...