Darlene Gillespie Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Darlene Faye Gillespie (born April 8, 1941) is a former child actor. She is best known for having been a singer and dancer on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1958. Her Irish father and French-Canadian mother were a former vaudeville dance team. When Darlene was two years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she became a naturalized US citizen in September 1956. She was born in Montreal, Canada. At age ten Darlene started singing lessons with Glen Raikes, and at age eleven, dance lessons with Burch Mann, founder of the American Folk Ballet... MORE

Darlene Faye Gillespie (born April 8, 1941) is a former child actor. She is best known for having been a singer and dancer on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1958. Her Irish father and French-Canadian mother were a former vaudeville dance team. When Darlene was two years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she became a naturalized US citizen in September 1956. She was born in Montreal, Canada. At age ten Darlene started singing lessons with Glen Raikes, and at age eleven, dance lessons with Burch Mann, founder of the American Folk Ballet company. She auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club in March 1955, was hired, and appeared on the show for all three seasons of its original run. She was the show's leading female singer, and starred in the serial Corky and White Shadow during the first season. In the third season, she appeared in the serial The New Adventures of Spin and Marty. She was cast as Dorothy in a musical number from the proposed live-action Disney film, Rainbow Road to Oz, on an episode of the Disneyland television show in September 1957. The movie was never made, and after Mickey Mouse Club stopped filming in 1958, her short LESS