Annette Funicello with her frequent co-star Frankie Avalon, in the 1965 comedy-musical "Beach Blanket Bingo." (YouTube/MGM) Annette Funicello, famed Mouseketeer and star of 1960s beach movies, has ...
The shift in teen tastes begun by the Beatles in 1964 and Funicello's first marriage the following year pretty much killed off the genre. But she was somehow never forgotten though mostly out of the ...