Former 'Mouseketeer' Annette Funicello dead at 70

[Dion]

NEW YORK -- Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a cute-as-a-button Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s, then teamed up with Frankie Avalon on a string of '60s fun-in-the-sun movies with names like "Beach Party Bingo" and "Bikini Beach," died Monday. She was 70.

She died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., of complications from multiple sclerosis, the Walt Disney Co. said.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/...t-70-1.1228968

[loob job]

I watched a special on her a few months ago showing her disease, it was awful. She is in a better place now.

[CaptainCrunch]

I didn't know that her MS had gotten that bad. A classy beautiful lady. RIP

[Cowperson]

Beach Blanket Bingo was a seminal moment in the 1960's, the Baby Boom generation coming of age in its early moments.

Too bad. That's young.

Cowperson

[MissTeeks]

My mom made us watch all the beach movies when we were kids and Back to the Beach was our favorite movie to watch on car rides to Sicamous in the summer, watching on the VCR in the back of our motorhome. I think I might have to watch it tonight. RIP