A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story
Release: 1995-10-22
·Runtime: 120m
·★ 4.0
TV Movie
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 and her second marriage, and the day when she found out she had multiple sclerosis.
Production Companies
Cactus Pictures
Fireworks Entertainment
Cast
Linda Lavin
as Virginia Funicello
Len Cariou
as Walt Disney
Dick Clark
as Self (uncredited)
Louis Ferreira
as Young Frankie Avalon
Annette Funicello
as Self
Blair Slater
as Jason Gilardi
Andrea Nemeth
as Annette Funicello (age 12-15)
Lorraine Landry
as Young Shelley Fabares
Demetri Goritsas
as Jimmie Dodd
Alexandra Purvis
as Heather
Eva LaRue
as Annette Funicello
Frank Crudele
as Joe Funicello
Jay Brazeau
as Uncle Pete
Shelley Fabares
as Self (uncredited)
Rob Stewart
as Jack Gilardi
David Lipper
as Paul Anka
Don S. Davis
as Glen Holt
Frankie Avalon
as Self
Hrothgar Mathews
as Plastic Surgeon
Suzanne Ristic
as Aunt Irene
Kavan Smith
as Young Dick Clark
Gary Jones
as Production Assistant
Claire Riley
as Neurologist
George Touliatos
as Grandpa Albano
