| Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents Annette - 1957-1958 Season (Collector's Tin) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Don Grady, Tommy Cole, Eileen Diamond, Annette Funicello, Jimmie Dodd
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4330
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 240 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.9 x 1.1
MPN: 05839200
UPC: 786936775037
EAN: 0786936775037
ASIN: B001DPHDCO
Release Date: November 11, 2008
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Album Description
Annette. To legions of Mickey Mouse Club fans she was magic. Chosen by Walt himself as an original cast member, Annette soon became the most popular Mousketeer and was given a daily series of her own. Showcased here is the entire fish-out-of-water series, about an innocent girl from the country who moves to the suburbs to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. Airing during the third and final season of The Mickey Mouse Club, the 20-episode series was unlike earlier series -- it featured original music including the song that helped launch Annette's music career. Enriching this celebration of Annette are the two complete Mickey Mouse Club episodes that introduced and concluded the series, plus a new tribute to her remarkable career and more. Featuring exclusive introductions by film historian Leonard Maltin, this is a timeless collection from generations past for generations to come.
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WALT DISNEY TREASURES/ ANNETTE January 6, 2009
I AM 56 YEARS OLD AND I TRUELY ENJOYED THIS VIDEO. IT BROUGHT BACK MANY MANY MEMORIES A TRUE TIME OF WHAT WAS FUN.
IT IS PERFECTLY PUT TOGETHER JUST AS I REMEMBER AND IT IS A TRUE DISNEY TREASURE.
THANK YOU!!
Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Present Annette January 6, 2009
This was a present for a friend of mine who is as big of a Disney fan that i am and we both remember running home from school the watch The Mickey Mouse Club everyday. She loved this DVD. So for Annette fans i would highly, highly recommend this DVD.
Nice Tribute to Annette December 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a double dvd from the 3rd season of The Mickey Mouse Club in which Annette, due to her popularity on the show, had her own serial, called "Annette". In the serial, Annette played a shy country girl who comes to live with her aunt and uncle in a different town. Annette was immediately accepted by the kids at Old South High School but one of the girls was jealous of Annette and gave her a difficult time. There was an incident of a missing necklace and Annette was in the room alone when the necklace disappeared. There was a party at which the necklace disappeared, a hayride on which Annette sings her famous song, "How Will I Know My Love?" which launched her singing career. All the kids watching the show wanted to know how they could buy this song, so Disney had her record it. Then there was a barbecue and a fight. Annette leaves a note for her aunt and uncle and goes to the train station to go back to Beaver Junction where she came from. Mike saves the day by finding Annette before the train leaves and brings her back. At a school related meeting at Steve's house, Laura plays the piano to rehearse a song. The piano is out of tune. I can't tell you anything else, or I'll spoil the ending, which is a happy one. Annette's friends are some of the mouseketeers having roles in this serial who are Sharon Baird, Tommy Cole, Doreen Tracey, Bonnie Fields and Cheryl Holdridge. Steve and Mike are played by Tim Considine and David Stollery of Spin and Marty fame and Roberta Shore plays the part of Laura. Moselle is played by Shelly Fabares. The serial is split up. Half is on one dvd and half is on the other dvd. There are also two 30-minute MMC shows included on the dvds. In the third season, the MMC was only a half hour. Thus, there is a 30-minute MMC program which includes the introduction to the Annette Serial on the first disk and a 30-minute MMC program which includes the finale on the second disk. There is a wonderful special feature with Sharon Baird, Shelly Fabares and Glen Holt as they talk about Annette and how she touched their lives on one of the disks. On the other disk, there is another special feature which includes interviews with the Sherman Brothers, Tutti Camaratta and Annette from several years back. Enough cannot be done to honor Annette because she is one of America's sweethearts. I bought six sets of this dvd. It's wonderful.
Judy's movies December 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I grew up in the Annette era, I remembering watching this when I was a kyd, I'd hurry up home from school so I wouldn't miss the Mickey Mouse Club. Thank you for making this available.
Unforgettable December 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not only is Annette Funicello unforgettable, but she is ably supported by a cast of unusual young actors with at least two titanic performances worthy of Emmy awards (did they have the Emmy in 1958?) Annette McCloud is an orphan from Beaver Junction who comes to the Los Angeles suburb of Ashford to a middle-class world of hayrides and malt shops, and a crowd of wealthy high schoolers who view her as a freak. When she gets off the train in her straw suitcase, her own home-made dress, and long unruly hair a la Jennifer Jones in DUEL IN THE SUN, she looks like an anomaly from some other century. She introduces herself to an aunt and uncle who don't even know she's alive. I wondered about this part--why couldn't Archie and Lila at least have known of her existence? The fact that they never bothered finding out what had become of their black sheep brother Bryce showed, to me, a certain heartlessness never really addressed by the film. And also, why did they have Archie and Lila as brother and sister? Wouldn't it have made more sense for them to be a married couple? The way it is now, I'm sorry, it's just plain kinky.
What is strange is that all, I mean ALL, the adults eeem like grandparents and not parents. How old are they supposed to be? The mother of Tim Considine (Steven Abernathy) looks like Helen Hayes playing the Snoop Sisters--and yet figuring by the calendar, she's probably not yet 40.
Annette is charming, if only occasionally lifelike. Her character is constantly being told she's not confrontational enough, and so two more volcanic personalities find it easy to steal the show--Roberta Shore as Laura Rogan, a visiting debutante who rules the entire teen social world of Ashford, and rules it with an iron fist. Beautiful, seductive, charming, blessed with a lovely voice and a great way of selling a song, Laura is also a deadly snob and soon finds a way to accuse poor Annette of stealing a valuable necklace. Oh, that necklace! I just finished watching Max Ophuls' French melodrama THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE and in all honestly, if you're interested in losing precious jewelry, hat happens to Laura's necklace in the story of Annette is a much more cinematic and fulfilling story. Roberta Shore is what Susan Sontag used to call Fascinating Fascism--when she's on the screen, even in a crowd scene, one hunts her out just to see how much attitude she's striking. I make her seem totally mannered, the miracle is she's not, she's natural as rain, and gorgeous to boot.
In the opposite corner we have Jett Maypen, the farmer tomboy girl who delivers eggs and chickens to Mary Wickes (Katy, the maid to Uncle Archie and Aunt Lila). Jett becomes Annette's best friend somewhat against Lila's wishes, for Lila wants Annette ot have more sophisticated friends. As played by Judy Nugent, Jett is one hot potato just simmering with class rage and what looks like good old fashioned twilight passion--the love for Annette that dare not speak its name. Laura scorns Jett as beyond the social pale, but she sure cleans up nice, and before long, she is surprising the audience with her frank appreciation for Tim Considine's dreamy features. "He shore knows how to make a fellow feel good!" Daytime TV in the fifties offered no more exciting confrontation than the final poolside smackdown between Laura and Jett, and now the entire serial is available in one of those Disney Treasures tin boxes.
It's a musical too, sort of, with great numbers for Annette ("How Do I Know My Love"?), Roberta Shore ("The Three Rs of Today" and her masterpiece "Don't Jump to Conclusions"), Annette and David Stollery (from SPIN and MARTY, here playing a hardworking soda-jerk ("Meeting at the Malt Shop") among others. There's a subplot of two subteens, Olmstead Steady Ware and a girl called Kit who looks like one of the little people but I don't think is. The two of them are energetic and bizarre, like twin Urkels. This is worth 200 dollars or even 3. God bless Annette, we never let a day go by without saying a prayer for her continued success battling MS.
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