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Baird as a Mouseketeer circa 1956. Contrary to the impression given by Disney publicity, many of the Mickey Mouse Club cast had some prior experience in films and television. Baird was among the most experienced of these professionals, and performed with the show's "Red Team", or first-string unit, for all three seasons of original programming ...
Karen Anita Pendleton (August 1, 1946 – October 6, 2019) [1] was an original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer on the ABC television series from 1955 to 1959. She was one of only nine Mouseketeers who were on the show during its entire original run.
Disney cast her as one of the original Mouseketeers. She was the last to be selected, and one of the few cast members to be personally selected by Walt Disney himself. [citation needed] In 1955, she signed a seven-year contract with Disney at $160 a week that would rise to $500 a week if all options were exercised. [5] [6]
"The All-New Mickey Mouse Club" launched the careers of some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry.
The main cast members were called Mouseketeers, and they performed in a variety of musical and dance numbers, as well as some informational segments. The most popular of the Mouseketeers constituted the so-called Red Team, who appeared each day in the show’s opening roll call & closing segments. 9 of those Red Team Mouseketeers were kept ...
Doreen Tracey, one of the original Mouseketeers on “Mickey Mouse Club,” died from pneumonia in Thousand Oaks, Calif. on Jan. 10 after battling cancer for two years.She was 74. Tracey appeared ...
Dennis W. Day (July 12, 1942 – c. July 17, 2018) was an American actor, singer, dancer, and theater director, best known as one of the original cast members of The Mickey Mouse Club. After ending his career as a child actor, he went on to work as a theater director before relocating to Oregon in the 1980s.
Because the original Mouseketeers wore mouse ears, children clamored for their own. Mouseketeers became household names that kids admired and wanted to feel close to, proving the power of young stars.