Walt Disney Presents: Annette
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Walt Disney Presents: Annette was a television serial
that ran on The Mickey Mouse Club during the show's third season (1957-1958). It starred Annette Funicello
as Annette McCloud, a poor, orphaned country girl who moves into town with her upper-class aunt and uncle. The serial also starred Richard Deacon
as Uncle Archie McCloud, Sylvia Field
as Aunt Lila McCloud, Mary Wickes
as Katie the housekeeper and prolific Disney child stars Tim Considine
, David Stollery
and Roberta Shore
as Annette's friends. The story was adapted by Lillie Hayward
(who also worked on Spin and Marty
) from the book Margaret by Janette Sebring Lowrey
.
Annette was released to DVD
in 2008 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures
series.
on a 1956 episode of the MMC. A remixed version with special messages from Frankie Avalon
, Shelley Fabares
, Paul Anka
, Tommy Sands
and Mickey Mouse
was released on the 2-CD box set from 1993, Annette: A Musical Reunion with America's Girl Next Door
Serial (radio and television)
Serials are series of television programs and radio programs that rely on a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode by episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from...
that ran on The Mickey Mouse Club during the show's third season (1957-1958). It starred Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello
Annette Joanne Funicello is an American singer and actress. She was Walt Disney's most popular cast member of the original Mickey Mouse Club, and went on to appear in a series of beach party films.-Early life and early stardom:...
as Annette McCloud, a poor, orphaned country girl who moves into town with her upper-class aunt and uncle. The serial also starred Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon (actor)
Richard Deacon , born in Philadelphia, was an American television and motion picture actor.-Career:The bald and usually bespectacled character actor often portrayed pompous or imperious figures. He made appearances on The Jack Benny Show as a salesman and a barber, and on NBC's Happy as a hotel...
as Uncle Archie McCloud, Sylvia Field
Sylvia Field
Sylvia Field was an American actress whose several-decades-long career encompassed performances on stage, screen, and TV, where she was best known for playing the understanding Mrs...
as Aunt Lila McCloud, Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes was an American film and television actress.-Career:Wickes was born as Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser in St. Louis, Missouri, of German Irish Protestant extraction. She graduated at the age of eighteen with a degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis, where she...
as Katie the housekeeper and prolific Disney child stars Tim Considine
Tim Considine
Timothy Daniel "Tim" Considine is a former American child actor and young adult actor who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
, David Stollery
David Stollery
David John Stollery, III , is a former American child actor and, as an adult, a noted industrial designer. He appeared in numerous Disney movies and television programs in the 1950s...
and Roberta Shore
Roberta Shore
Roberta Jymme Schourop , better known as Roberta Shore, is an American actress and performer, most famous for her youthful television and movie roles in the 1950s and early 1960s....
as Annette's friends. The story was adapted by Lillie Hayward
Lillie Hayward
Lillie Hayward was an American film actress and later screenwriter whose Hollywood career began during the silent era and continued well into the age of television...
(who also worked on Spin and Marty
Spin and Marty
Spin and Marty was a popular series of television shorts that aired as part of ABC's Mickey Mouse Club show of the mid-1950s produced by Walt Disney. There were three serials in all, set at the Triple R Ranch, a boys' western-style summer camp. The first series of 25 eleven-minute episodes,...
) from the book Margaret by Janette Sebring Lowrey
Janette Sebring Lowrey
Janette Sebring Lowry was an American Writer best known for writing The Poky Little Puppy. She wrote dozens of books aimed at children and young adults from the 1930s to the 1970s, but "The Pokey Little Puppy" remains her best known...
.
Annette was released to DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
in 2008 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures
Walt Disney Treasures
The Walt Disney Treasures is a two-disc DVD set of classic Disney works. They cover work from the studio's earliest days to their more recent work...
series.
Plot
The story is about a country girl who moves in with her sophisticated aunt and uncle. Most of the plot was around her at highschool trying to fit in with everybody else.Episodes and original airdates (1958)
- "The Newcomer" -- 2/11
- "Annette Meets Jet" -- 2/12
- "An Invitation" -- 2/13
- "The Escort" -- 2/14
- "The Party" -- 2/17
- "Paying The Piper" -- 2/18
- "The Missing Necklace" -- 2/19
- "What Happened At School" -- 2/20
- "Almost A Fight" -- 2/21
- "Steady Gets An Idea" -- 2/24
- "The Explosion" -- 2/25
- "The Turned Down Invitation" -- 2/26
- "Annette Makes A Decision" -- 2/27
- "The Hayride" -- 2/28
- "The Barbecue" -- 3/3
- "The Fight" -- 3/4
- "The Farewell Letter" -- 3/5
- "Mike To The Rescue" -- 3/6
- "The Mystery Is Solved" -- 3/7
Cast
- Annette FunicelloAnnette FunicelloAnnette Joanne Funicello is an American singer and actress. She was Walt Disney's most popular cast member of the original Mickey Mouse Club, and went on to appear in a series of beach party films.-Early life and early stardom:...
-- Annette McCloud - Tim ConsidineTim ConsidineTimothy Daniel "Tim" Considine is a former American child actor and young adult actor who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
-- Steve Abernathy - David StolleryDavid StolleryDavid John Stollery, III , is a former American child actor and, as an adult, a noted industrial designer. He appeared in numerous Disney movies and television programs in the 1950s...
-- Mike Martin - Roberta ShoreRoberta ShoreRoberta Jymme Schourop , better known as Roberta Shore, is an American actress and performer, most famous for her youthful television and movie roles in the 1950s and early 1960s....
-- Laura Rogan (as Jymme Shore) - Richard DeaconRichard Deacon (actor)Richard Deacon , born in Philadelphia, was an American television and motion picture actor.-Career:The bald and usually bespectacled character actor often portrayed pompous or imperious figures. He made appearances on The Jack Benny Show as a salesman and a barber, and on NBC's Happy as a hotel...
-- Uncle Archie McCloud - Sylvia FieldSylvia FieldSylvia Field was an American actress whose several-decades-long career encompassed performances on stage, screen, and TV, where she was best known for playing the understanding Mrs...
-- Aunt Lila McCloud - Mary WickesMary WickesMary Wickes was an American film and television actress.-Career:Wickes was born as Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser in St. Louis, Missouri, of German Irish Protestant extraction. She graduated at the age of eighteen with a degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis, where she...
-- Katie - Judy NugentJudy Nugent-Early life:Nugent was born in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Lucille and Carl Nugent. Her father was a property master for MGM, her mother later became a talent agent, managing Judy's career and that of her older sister, Carol Nugent.-Career:...
-- Jet Maypen - Doreen TracyDoreen TracyDoreen Isabelle Tracey was born on 3 April 1943, in London, England. She is best known for having been a performer on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1958. Her parents, Sidney Tracey and Bessie Hay, were an American vaudeville dance team that performed for Allied...
-- Val Abernathy - Shelley FabaresShelley FabaresMichele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares is an American actress and singer. Fabares is known for her roles as Donna Reed's oldest child, Mary Stone, on The Donna Reed Show , and as Craig T. Nelson's love interest and eventual wife, Christine Armstrong Fox, on the sitcom Coach. She also was Elvis...
-- Moselle Corey - Steve StevensSteve StevensSteve Stevens is an American guitarist and songwriter.He is best known for playing for other artists and less known for his critically acclaimed solo efforts , collaborations Steve Stevens (born as Steven Schneider on May 5, 1959, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American guitarist and songwriter.He...
-- Drew Stafford - Rudy Lee -- Olmstead "Steady" Ware
- Sharon BairdSharon BairdSharon Baird is an American actress and dancer who is best known for having been a Mouseketeer.-Early life:Sharon Baird was born in Seattle, Washington to Eldon Baird, an aerospace worker, and Nikki Marcus, a future talent agent. She has one younger brother, Jimmy Baird, also a former child actor...
-- Kitty Blalock - Barry Curtis -- Court Whitney
- Tommy ColeTommy ColeTommy Cole is an American make-up artist, a former actor and singer who is still best known for having been a Mouseketeer.-Early life:...
-- Jimmy Smith - Cheryl HoldridgeCheryl HoldridgeCheryl Holdridge was an American actress, best known as a cast member of the original Mickey Mouse Club.-Early life:Holdridge was born Cheryl Lynn Phelps in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her mother, Julie A...
-- Madge Markham - Bonnie Lynn Fields -- Pat Boren
- Doris PackerDoris PackerDoris Packer was an American actress, possibly best known as Mrs. Cornelia Rayburn, Theodore Cleaver's principal in Leave It to Beaver....
-- Mrs. Abernathy
Theme song
The theme song "Annette" was written and originally sung by Mickey Mouse Club leader Jimmie DoddJimmie Dodd
James Wesley Dodd was best known as the MC of the popular 1950s Disney TV show The Mickey Mouse Club, as well as the writer of its well-known theme song, "The Mickey Mouse Club March"...
on a 1956 episode of the MMC. A remixed version with special messages from Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon is an American actor, singer, playwright, and former teen idol.-Career:By the time he was 12, Avalon was on U.S. television playing his trumpet. As a teenager he played with Bobby Rydell in Rocco and the Saints...
, Shelley Fabares
Shelley Fabares
Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares is an American actress and singer. Fabares is known for her roles as Donna Reed's oldest child, Mary Stone, on The Donna Reed Show , and as Craig T. Nelson's love interest and eventual wife, Christine Armstrong Fox, on the sitcom Coach. She also was Elvis...
, Paul Anka
Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
, Tommy Sands
Tommy Sands
Tommy Adrian Sands is an American pop music singer and actor.-Early life:Born into a musical family in Chicago, Illinois, Sands' father was a pianist and his mother a big-band singer. While still young, he moved with his family to Shreveport, Louisiana...
and Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio. Mickey is an anthropomorphic black mouse and typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves...
was released on the 2-CD box set from 1993, Annette: A Musical Reunion with America's Girl Next Door