How tall was Annette Funicello?
Annette Joanne Funicello got teenage fame beginning in October 1955 after she made her Mouseketeer debut. Raised on 22 October 1942 in Utica, New York, when she was still young, the family had moved to California. Walt Disney himself saw her at the year-end recital of her ballet school in Burbank playing the leading role in "Swan Lake" and agreed to let her audition alongside two hundred others.Annette was the last of the twenty-four Mouseketeers to be selected. Through the 1958 fall-through of The Mickey Mouse Club (1955), in which she starred in her own multi-segmented series called "Annette," she was the most famous Mousketeer of all of them and the only one Walt Disney had retained under contract since he cancelled the program.
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