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The Mickey Mouse Club is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and briefly returned to social media in 2017. Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised for four seasons, from 1955 to 1959, by ABC.
Karen Anita Pendleton (August 1, 1946 – October 6, 2019) [1] was an original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer on the ABC television series from 1955 to 1959. She was one of only nine Mouseketeers who were on the show during its entire original run.
Funicello proved to be very popular and by the end of the first season of The Mickey Mouse Club, she was receiving 6,000 letters a month, more than any other Mouseketeer. [7] She dated fellow Mouseketeer Lonnie Burr. [8] [9] Saying goodbye to cast members in the 1958 show finale, Funicello said "I never cried so hard in my life". [10]
These former cast members on ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’ and ‘The All New Mickey Mouse Club’ used their childhood fame to make it big. ... She died in 1960 at 69, with her latest book, written ...
Between 1956 and 1960, Corcoran played several different (but similar) characters, each bearing the nickname "Moochie". Although he was never a Mouseketeer, Corcoran appeared in three Mickey Mouse Club serials, beginning with Adventure in Dairyland, where he played Moochie McCandless, a farmer's son. [2]
Gillespie auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club in March 1955. She originally auditioned as a dancer, but she sang "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" and was hired. [5] She was the leading female singer of the Mouseketeers (opposite the leading male singer Tommy Cole), and appeared on the program for all three seasons of its original run.
In April 1956, 14-year-old Kirk was cast as Joe Hardy for The Mickey Mouse Club serial The Hardy Boys, alongside Tim Considine as Frank Hardy.The first of the serials, The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure, was filmed in June and early July 1956, and aired in October at the start of the show's second season. [7]
When the ensemble auditioned together at the Disney Studio for The Mickey Mouse Club in the spring 1955, he was the only one selected to join the cast of Mouseketeers. Cole's singing ability earned him a transfer to The Mickey Mouse Club's first-string Red Team midway through the 1955–56