The 1950's
It Was A Great Time To Be Alive!
Annette Funicello
She Was The Cats Meow!
She was a heart throb!
I Admit, I really thought she was great! Million
dollar smile and a regular person... Nothing phony there!
To me she was a star and will always be bright and shining. Born in
Utica, New York to an Italian-American family, she took dancing and
music lessons as a child to try to overcome shyness. Her family had
moved to southern California when she was four years old.
In 1955, the 12-year-old was discovered by Walt Disney as she
performed as the Swan Queen in Swan Lake at a dance recital in
Burbank, California. On the basis of this appearance, Disney cast
her as one of the original "Mouseketeers". She was the last of them
to be selected, and the only one picked by Walt Disney. She soon
proved to be quite popular. By the end of the first season of Mickey
Mouse Club, she was receiving 6,000 letters a month, according to
her Disney Legends biography.
In addition to appearing in many of the Mouseketeers' sketches and
dance routines, Funicello starred or co-starred in a number of
serials on The Mickey Mouse Club. These included Adventures in
Dairyland, her own self-titled serial, Walt Disney Presents: Annette
(which co-starred Richard Deacon), and the second and third Spin and
Marty serials, The Further Adventures of Spin and Marty and The New
Adventures of Spin and Marty.
Her music was (and is) excellent!
Wow! She was every guys girl friend!
She Could Do Anything
Her biography at
IMDB says it all, a class act! It's nice to see her over the years
in her various roles.
Her bout with MS and the terrific way she supports the MS research is
just another example of a class act!
Who cares if she can surf or not?
Micky Mouse Club
I was a little to old to watch this program however I do admit I would do my homework and listen to it in the background so I could watch the serials like Spin and Marty and get a glimpse of Annette singing or dancing.
The Mickey Mouse Club was a long-running American variety television
series that began in 1955, produced by Walt Disney Productions and
televised by the American Broadcasting Company, featuring a regular but
ever-changing cast of teenage performers.
The Mickey Mouse Club was
created by Walt Disney. The series has been revived, reformatted and reimagined several times since its initial 1955-1959 run on ABC.
The
original series has been repackaged and rerun several times over the
decades.