“The Mickey Mouse Club” first premiered in October 1955 under the leadership of the one and only Walt Disney. The long-lasting variety show served as incubator for more than a few major future stars ...

"The Mickey Mouse Club" featured a gaggle of future stars. Where are they now? Jan. 18, 2008 — -- It's served as the jumping off point for so many stars: "The Mickey Mouse Club," Disney's variety ...

During her time with Disney, Kern was presented with the Mousecar Award, as well as the key to Fantasyland, according to her family Bonni Lou Kern, one of the original Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse ...

March marked the 65th anniversary of the wrap of the first season of the “Mickey Mouse Club,” and the recent death of one of the original Mouseketeers, Johnny Crawford, reminded fans of the enduring ...

Karen Pendleton joined the cast as one of the youngest members and remained a regular for the entire show's run on ABC from 1955-1959 Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE.

Karen Pendleton, one of the original Mouseketeers on 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' died from a heart attack on Sunday in Fresno, California, Disney historian and author Lorraine Santoli announced. She was ...

Bonni Lou Kern, one of the original Mouseketeers on television’s pioneering The Mickey Mouse Club of the 1950s, died September 28 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Wooster, OH. She ...

Karen Pendleton, one original Mouseketeers from The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s, died Sunday of a heart attack in Fresno, CA. She was 73. Author and Disney historian Lorraine Santoli announced the ...

Original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer Bonni Lou Kern died of natural causes Monday in Wooster, Ohio, at 79, TMZ reported. Born in 1941, the ’50s TV star etched herself into Disney history after her ...