Annette Funicello - Mouseketeer Dies at 70

guardian.co.uk:

The pretty, dark-haired Funicello was just 13 when she gained fame on Walt Disney's television club. Photograph: Walt Disney Company/Reuters

        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 on a string of 1960s fun-in-the-sun movies with names like Beach Blanket Bingo and Bikini Beach, died Monday. She was 70...Read here...
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