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DREAM IS A WISH YOUR HEART MAKES, A: MY STORY
by Annette Funicello (Collaborator: Patricia Romanowski)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Hyperion: NY (1994-05-03)
ISBN: 0786860200
EAN: 9780786860203
Dewy Decimal #: 782.42164092
Hardcover: 256 pages
SKU: 41351
Condition: New
Comments: THE HARDBACK BOOK! HYPERION, 1994. THE UNABRIDGED EDITION, WITH TERRIFIC PHOTOGRAPHS! HARDCOVER W/GILT LETTERING, DUST JACKET AND PAGES ARE BRAND NEW! Rapid shipping w/FREE tracking. GREAT PACKAGING . Air Mail. BL. RD
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The former Mouseketeer and star of beach party movies chronicles her career, offering recollections of Walt Disney, Frankie Avalon, and many others, and honestly discussing her recent struggle with multiple sclerosis. 75,000 first printing. ad/promo.
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Customer Reviews
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A sweet, inspiring read
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-10-11
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Annette Funicello was America's sweetheart as a 12-year old Mouseketeer and now, fifty years later, she's still loved and admired by her many fans. This autobiography details her discovery by Walt Disney and early years on the Mickey Mouse Club, her beach movies, married life, and, most recently, her battle with multiple sclerosis.
It's a cheerful, modest, and inspiring story about a lady who gave up show biz for motherhood and never regretted her choice. There are lots of stories about the actors and singers she worked with over the years, chief among them her friend and co-star, Frankie Avalon.
Even though her disease had already become debilitating when this was written in 1994, she maintains an overwhelmingly positive outlook and writes, "Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful." Included are many professional and personal photos which brought back happy memories for me of my favorite Mouseketeer.
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Always the Lady...
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-08-10
Once more Annette proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was & remains the true lady she always appeared to be in her roles on TV & in film...
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YOU GO GIRL
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-07-04
YOU GO GIRL FROM THE PAGES OF THIS BOOK TO MY HEART. ANNETTE IS SUPERB IN THIS LOVING BOOK.
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Wonderful Story
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-05-28
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have the audio cassette of A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes, and it is beautiful. I've listened to it several times in my car. I don't tire of it because it is a human story. Annette Funicello suceeded on her own -- her father was an auto mechanic and her mother stayed at home. This is an inspiration to children and even adults.
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Fresh, lively writing and colorful anecdotes
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-05-05
8 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Surprisingly absorbing and lively recollections from Annette Funicello, one-time Mouseketeer and Disney darling who was the only teen-mouse to graduate to the big screen via "Babes In Toyland" and the "Beach Party" and "Merlin Jones" comedies. Annette comes clean about being the only Mouseketeer kept on contract by Walt Disney after MMC ran its course, and she contemplates why that was and how her co-stars struggled without Disney's guidance. She is very upfront, but also a little indifferent to her own good fortune, embarrassed and innately shy about a career that just fell into her lap. She says she never aspired to fame, but got it regardless. The book continues its interesting narrative even after Annette marries and retires, cleaning the house the day she heard Walt Disney passed, and eventually realizing her marriage was out of gas. Fate dealt Annette (and all her fans) a bitter hand when she was diagnosed with MS, which she still continues to fight, but her inspiring conclusion to the book gives all of us hope.
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