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The sweetheart of TV s The Mickey Mouse Club, American entertainer Annette Funicello began performing at age 10. The Disney people themselves sensed that Funicello had star quality, building several musical numbers around her on The Mickey Mouse Club and fashioning her own Club showwithinashow miniseries, appropriately titled Funicello s postMickey Mouse career was far more successful than that of many of her fellow Mouseketeersand the reasons cannot be charged up to looks alone. She also was gueststarred on the Disney TV series Zorro and Wonderful World of Color, and was given sizeable roles in such Disney theatrical features as The Shaggy Dog (59) and Babes in Toyland (61). While still under contract to Disney, Funicello began appearing in AmericanInternational s Beach Party series, usually costarring with Frankie Avalon. Though these films were distinguished by undulating, bikinied females, Walt Disney decreed that Funicello never be involved in any suggestive sequencesnor were