When the series ended, Disney wanted to keep her and Cubby under contract as a team, but Mr. Karen was recruited by producers of “The Mickey Mouse Club” seeking child performers at dancing schools in the Los Angeles area. Her father, Herbert, built movie sets, and her mother, Mildred (Huber) Pendleton, was a saleswoman at J.C. 1, 1946, in Glendale, Calif., and grew up in North Hollywood. “They were a very close-knit group, very much a family.”
Bletscher said by phone about her mother’s time as a Mouseketeer.
Funicello, the Mouseketeer who went on to have the most prominent entertainment career, died in 2013.īut when the series ended, so did her days as an entertainer, though she regularly appeared at events with her fellow Mouseketeers.
She joined Annette Funicello, Sharon Baird, Cubby O’Brien, Darlene Gillespie and the other Mouseketeers - all of whom went by just one name, and all of whom wore mouse ears - in a show that featured singing and dancing, educational segments (one starred Jiminy Cricket) and episodic serials. They were really trying to find kids who were really down to earth - not real, real professional.” “I think that may be something to do with why they chose me. “I got the giggles” at the audition, she told The Los Angeles Times in 1995. A tiny girl with long, curly blond hair, she could dance adeptly thanks to lessons she had been taking since she was 3. Pendleton was 9 when “The Mickey Mouse Club” made its debut in October 1955, shortly after Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif. Her daughter, Staci Bletscher, said the cause was a heart attack. Karen Pendleton, who charmed young baby boomers in the 1950s as one of the original Mouseketeers on Walt Disney’s television series “The Mickey Mouse Club,” died on Sunday in Fresno, Calif.
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