Annette Funicello

Annette Funicello (Utica, 22 October 1942 - Bakersfield, 8 april 2013) was an American actress and singer.

Funicello moved with her parents to Los Angeles. During a dance performance, she was discovered by Walt Disney and asked to join as a mouseketeer in Disney's Mickey Mouse Club. Over the years between 1955 and 1957, the role they played and she was a valued actor in the Disney stable.

For one of the roles that she played, she had to sing. Disney gave her a contract with his newly formed record company Disneyland Records. Although Funicello itself indicates that they are not a great singing talent, prove her record has to sell. Her single Tall Paul came in the top-ten in the summer of 1959. They rose to 1967 various other boards on which were released on Disney's Buena Vista label. She played also in this period in a number of beach movies, mainly against player Frankie Avalon, including Beach Party (1963), Muscle Beach Party (1964), Bikini Beach (1964) and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965).

In the 1970s she vanished to the background in order to spend more time with her family. At the end of the eighties brought Funicello and Avalon a Christmas single, and there appeared a last beach movie, Back to the Beach.

In 1992 left a Funicello know they since 1987 against the effects of multiple sclerosis fluids and she founded The Annette Funicello Fund for Neurological Diseases Researchon promoting research and support. Funicello died In 2013 from complications of multiple sclerosis in the Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield. She was 70 years. [1] ==Filmography[ Edit] ==