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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.
Cast: Eva LaRue, Len Cariou, Frank Crudele, Rob Stewart, David Lipper, Don S. Davis, Louis Ferreira, Andrea Nemeth, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Linda Lavin, Ahnee Boyce, Austin Basile, Jay Brazeau, Victoria Brooks, Stephania Ciccone, Demetri Goritsas, Elysa Hogg, Gary Jones, Lorraine Landry
Cinematographer: Jan Kiesser
Production Designer: Richard Paris, Linda Del Rosario
Editor: George Appleby
Composer: George Blondheim
Costume Designer: Maya Mani
Direction team: Richard Flower (First Assistant Director), Julia Done (Second Assistant Director)
Producers: Jay Firestone, Ron French, Stanley M. Brooks
Production: Cactus Pictures, Fireworks Entertainment
