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- When Al Gilbert, Annette's dance instructor, mentioned to her mother that the part Walt Disney wanted Miss Funicello to audition for on The Mickey Mouse Club would be called a Mousekateer, Annette's mother misunderstood. Thinking Gilbert had said "Muskateer," Mrs. Funicello couldn't imagine what Disney wanted with a twelve-year-old girl, and was initially quite adamant about the proposal.(edit)
- A few years before Annette achieved overnight stardom on Walt Disney's children's series, The Mickey Mouse Club, a fortune-teller predicted to her parents that one day one of their children would be a famous entertainer, but they didn't believe a word of it.(edit)
- As a result of her extreme shyness, Annette was very anxious when it came time for her to attend school. To counter her nervousness, she would constantly tap her fingers and toes during class. When Annette's kindergarten teacher suggested to her parents that Annette should take up a percussion instrument, she chose drums. Within a short time, Miss Funicello could execute drum rolls as well as older children who had been studying for years, and was also playing the xylophone and timpani.(edit)
- As an adult, Annette with her dark brunette hair, porcelain complexion and oversized eyes, has on occasion been described as the perfect product of an artistic union of Botticelli and Walter Keene.(edit)
- As a wife and mother, Annette became the spokesperson for both Skippy peanut butter and Mennen baby products.(edit)
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