Disney Month: W3- Disney's Career Launchers

I thought this might be fun!  Let's talk about how Disney launches a life-long career for it's kids! Whether it's the Mickey Mouse Club or one of the new set of sitcoms aimed at tweens, we've seen careers explode from Disney. 

Because I was raised on watching vintage things (and that was in the 80's, so Vintage at the time was 50-60's), I am very familiar with Annette Funicello (who just passed away recently. ::( ) and the string of movies she did with Frankie Avalon well after retiring their mouse ears: 

And we can blame the MMC for these folks filling the gossip columns... I trust you'll know who they are:

This is the crew I was watching as a 'Tween:

Wow, that's good for making me feel old. 5 of the folks in the picture above left the MMC to become a singing group called The Party. 

geez. 

OK, and off of that tangent, we can also throw out Miley, Zendaya (who was just on Dancing with the Stars this season), Chelsea Kane/Staub (whatever her name is!), Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez....

We can do this for a while, so... Let's do it! 

Who else can owe their "big break" to Disney?