Me-TV is saluting the recently departed Annette Funicello by presenting four out of five episodes of her guest stint on Danny Thomas’ Make Room for Daddy sitcom in 1959. She played foreign exchange student Gina Minelli, a role that predated her first Beach Party movie by four years. (That’s her, flanked by Make Room for Daddy kid actors Rusty Hamer and young Angela Cartwright. For TVWW tributes to the former Mouseketeer, see Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes and Bill Brioux’s TV Feeds My Family.

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