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Girl next door Annette Funicello dies
was just no stopping it.”
They eventually drifted
apart, but during the time
NEW YORK — She was
they were together, he said,
the first crush for a generaDisney tried to end their
tion of boys, the perfect
relationship, resulting in
playmate for a generation
one of Anka's biggest hits,
of girls.
“Puppy Love.”
Annette Funicello, who
“The Disney crowd, and
became a child star as a
understandably so, didn't
cute-as-a-button Mousekewant her too involved at
teer on “The Mickey
too young an age,” Anka
Mouse Club” in the 1950s,
told the AP. “We had our
ruled among baby boomprofessional careers and
ers, who tuned in every
what have you, and they
weekday afternoon to
continued to tell her it was
watch her on their flickera puppy love, and marriage
ing black-and-white televishould not be in question.
sion sets.
And I wrote about it.”
Then they shed their
When “The Mickey
mouse ears, as Annette did Annette Funicello
Mouse Club” ended, Fuwhen she teamed up with
I'm devastated but I'm not
nicello was the only cast
Frankie Avalon during the surprised.”
member to remain under
'60s in a string of frothy,
The pretty, dark-haired
contract to the studio.
fun-in-the-sun movies with Funicello was 13 when she
She appeared in such
titles like “Beach Blanket
gained fame on “The MickDisney movies as “Johnny
Bingo” and “How to Stuff a ey Mouse Club,” a kids'
Tremain,” ''The Shaggy
Wild Bikini.”
variety show that consisted
Dog,” ''The Horsemasters,”
Decades later, she enof stories, songs and dance
''Babes in Toyland,” ''The
deared herself to baby
routines. It ran on ABC
Misadventures of Merlin
boomers all over again affrom 1955 to 1959.
Jones” and “The Monkey's
ter she announced in 1992
Cast after Walt Disney
Uncle.”
that she had multiple scle- saw her at a dance reShe also became a rerosis and began grappling
cital, she appeared in the
cording star, singing on
In this file photo, Annette Funicello is honored with the
with the slow, degenerative Mouseketeer uniform of
15 albums and hit singles
Disney Legend Award at Walt Disney Studios Theatre in Bureffects with remarkably
mouse ears, a pleated skirt
such as “Tall Paul” and
bank, Calif. With Funicello is her husband, Glen Holt, right,
good cheer and faith.
and a turtleneck sweater
“Pineapple Princess.”
and Jeff Hofman, a Disney Studios official. AP
Funicello died Monday at emblazoned with her first
Outgrowing the kid roles
Mercy Southwest Hospital name, and captivated young
“It was a happy time.
the late 1950s, said that
by the early '60s, Annette
in Bakersfield, Calif., of
viewers with her wholeThey were wonderful
like seemingly every young teamed with Avalon in a
complications from MS,
some, girl-next-door appeal. times,” she recalled in a TV American male of the time, series of movies for Amerthe Walt Disney Co. said.
She became the most
interview as an adult.
he was in love with her.
ican-International, the first
She was 70.
popular Mouseketeer, reSinger and composer
“She was just the girl
film company to exploit the
“She really had a tough
ceiving 8,000 fan letters a
Paul Anka, the one-time
next door and they were
burgeoning teen market.
existence,” Avalon told The month, 10 times more than teen idol who briefly dated drawn just to her,” Anka
The filmmakers weren't
Associated Press. “It's like
any of the 23 other young
Funicello when they were
said. “She had that thing.
aiming for art, and never
losing a family member.
performers.
on the concert circuit in
She had the it, and there
stumbled across it. As Hal-
By Frazier Moore
The Associated Press
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liwell's Film Guide says of
“Beach Party”: “Quite tolerable in itself, it started an
excruciating trend.”
The films had songs,
cameos by older stars and
some laughs. The 1965
“Beach Blanket Bingo,” for
example, featured subplots
involving a mermaid, a motorcycle gang and a skydiving school run by Don
Rickles, and comic touches
by silent film star Buster
Keaton.
Among the other titles:
“Muscle Beach Party,” ''Bikini Beach,” ''How to Stuff
a Wild Bikini” and “Dr.
Goldfoot and the Bikini
Machine.”
In the 1970s, she made
commercials for Skippy
peanut butter, appearing
with her real-life children.
She and Avalon were
reunited in the 1987 movie
“Back to the Beach,” in
which Lori Loughlin
played their daughter.
Funicello was “kind and
down-to-earth,” Loughlin
told the AP. “She was truly
the embodiment of the
friendly, all-American girl
that we all loved to watch
in the beach movies.”
It was during the filming of “Back to the Beach”
that Funicello noticed she
had trouble walking — the
first insidious sign of MS.
She gradually lost control
of her legs. Fearing people
might think she was drunk,
she went public with her
condition in 1992.
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