I’m around 15 years younger than you, and 2 days shy of 20 years younger than she was, and I also had a boyhood crush on Annette.
At one point in the early 70’s when we lived in No Cal, they started showing reruns of The Mickey Mouse Club on TV. We only had 5 TV stations at the time, no cable (the 3, then, major networks, PBS, and a local station), and for the life of me I can’t remember which one it was on...

I had, also, never seen the show before.
Anyway, she indeed stood out to me too, even though I knew the episodes were almost 20 years old.
Then I saw her in one of the beach movies...it was like she grew up overnight...!!!!!

Still was as cute as ever, though...!!!!!


I still remember a few of the other things she was in after that, including the Skippy Peanut Butter commercials.
Also remember when she went public with the news she had been diagnosed with MS. And, full-on MS, not the remitting relapsing type.
Such a tragic way for her life to have turned.
Still saddens me.