
This highly-rated television film covers the life of American movie/TV/pop music idol Annette Funicello. The movie starts with the move of her family from New York to California, where in 1955 shy Annette becomes one of the cast of The Mickey Mouse Club. The movie covers her child stardom, her teen idol years, her singing career with big hits like "Tall Paul", her romance with Paul Anka, her classic beach party films with Frankie Avalon, and her first marriage. It also shows her large comeback in the late 1980s and her second marriage, and the day when she found out she had multiple sclerosis.

as Annette Funicello

as Walt Disney

as Joe Funicello

as Jack Gilardi

as Paul Anka

as Glen Holt

as Young Frankie Avalon

as Annette Funicello (age 12-15)

as Self

as Self

as Virginia Funicello

as Gina Portman

as Jack Gilardi Jr.

as Uncle Pete

as Jill

as Grandma Albano

as Jimmie Dodd

as Annette Funicello (age 4)

as Production Assistant

as Young Shelley Fabares

as Plastic Surgeon

as Heather

as Neurologist

as Aunt Irene

as Al Gilbert

as Fortune Teller

as Young Joey

as Cissy

as Jason Gilardi

as Young Dick Clark

as Grandpa Albano

as Mouseketeer

as Mouseketeer

as Mouseketeer

as Mouseketeer

as Mouseketeer

as Mouseketeer

as Mouseketeer

as Mouseketeer

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self (uncredited)

as Self (uncredited)