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)
