A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story

Directed by Bill Corcoran
1995    2h
Biography, Drama, TV Movie
7.2
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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, her second marriage, and the day when she found out she had multiple sclerosis.
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Cast of A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story
  • Eva LaRueAnnette Funicello
  • Len CariouWalt Disney
  • Frank CrudeleJoe Funicello
  • Rob StewartJack Gilardi
  • David LipperPaul Anka
  • Don S. DavisGlen Holt
  • Louis FerreiraYoung Frankie Avalon
  • Andrea NemethAnnette Funicello (age 12-15)
  • Frankie AvalonSelf
  • Annette FunicelloSelf
  • Linda LavinVirginia Funicello
  • Ahnee BoyceGina Portman
  • Austin BasileJack Gilardi Jr.
  • Jay BrazeauUncle Pete
  • Victoria BrooksJill
  • Stephania CicconeGrandma Albano
  • Demetri GoritsasJimmie Dodd
  • Elysa HoggAnnette Funicello (age 4)
  • Gary JonesProduction Assistant
  • Lorraine LandryYoung Shelley Fabares
  • Hrothgar MathewsPlastic Surgeon
  • Alexandra PurvisHeather
  • Claire RileyNeurologist
  • Suzanne RisticAunt Irene
  • Greg RogersAl Gilbert
  • Nina RomanFortune Teller
  • Domenico SansaloneYoung Joey
  • Michelle SkalnikCissy
  • Blair SlaterJason Gilardi
  • Kavan SmithYoung Dick Clark
  • George TouliatosGrandpa Albano
  • Scott AugustineMouseketeer
  • Kim BaileyMouseketeer
  • Talia DerksenMouseketeer
  • Laura JenkinsMouseketeer
  • Ben NewcombeMouseketeer
  • Kelli StewartMouseketeer
  • Rene TardleMouseketeer
  • Kimberly WallaceMouseketeer
  • Virginia FunicelloSelf
  • Joe FunicelloSelf
  • Glen HoltSelf
  • Gina PortmanSelf
  • John PortmanSelf
  • Jason GilardiSelf
  • Jack Gilardi Jr.Self
  • Jack GilardiSelf
  • Dick ClarkSelf (uncredited)
  • Shelley FabaresSelf (uncredited)

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