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Vanity Fair, Emma, who recently starred in Marvel's "WandaVision," recalled preparing for 2010's "Gigantic" series when things felt off."Prior to starting that job, I woke up one morning and the left side of my face felt like there were a million ants crawling on it," she said. Soon, Emma got tested for several things, including Bell's palsy, but found out the results while shooting a scene that it was MS. The diagnosis, she said, "was literally a kind of nightmare." The actress, now 49, was also in denial, despite the fact her father lived with MS."'No, that's not possible.' I'm like, 'What are you talking about?,'" she said. "[The doctor] was very matter of fact about it."In that moment, Emma decided to keep her diagnosis a secret, save for a few close friends. "I knew in my bones that if you talk about this, you're just going to stop working.

Judy Nugent, the former ’50s child actor who co-starred with Jane Wyman in Magnificent Obsession, Annette Funicello in the popular Annette serial on ABC’s The Mickey Mouse Club, and flew in the arms of George Reeves’ Superman in a 1954 episode Adventures of Superman, died of cancer Thursday, Oct. 26, surrounded by family at her ranch in Montana. She was 83.

Disney’s D23 Expo will kick off next month with a presentation of this year’s class of Disney Legends, the roster of which was announced today. Per the company, “The Disney Legends Award is given to an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to the Disney legacy.”

Tim Considine, one of the most popular young Disney actors of the 1950s before originating the role of the eldest brother on the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81.

Dwayne Hickman, whose turn as eternal romantic Dobie Gillis made him a teen idol in the 1960s, has died this morning at age 87 in his Los Angeles home of complications from Parkinson’s Disease.

Tommy Kirk was an actor best known for starring in Disney films such as “The Shaggy Dog” and in beach party movies.Tommy Kirk was a teenager when he started acting, appearing in “Gunsmoke” and “Big Town.” His big break came when he won the role of Joe Hardy opposite Tim Considine on Walt Disney’s televison serial “The Hardy Boys.” That would lead to Kirk becoming a Disney favorite and he was cast as the lead in the movie “Old Yeller,” a timeless film about the bond between a boy and his dog, and

announced. He was 84.

Carole Horst 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 talent that the show, and especially its early 1990s iteration, brought to the entertainment industry.

TMZ reported.Born in 1941, the 50s TV star etched herself into Disney history after her name was used in the very first episode of “The Wonder Mouseketeers!” The installment, entitled “Save Bonni Lou Kern!,” saw her fellow Mouseketeers trying to rescue her from a fishing net.From there, Kern starred alongside fellow Mouseketeers like Annette Funicello, Judy Harriet and Eileen Diamond and even appeared in the film “Save the Wonder Mouseketeers!”During her storied Disney career as a child star,