This highly-rated television film covers the life of American movie/TV/pop music idol Annette Funicello. The movie starts with the move of her family from New York to California, where in 1955 shy Annette becomes one of the cast of The Mickey Mouse Club. The movie covers her child stardom, her teen idol years, her singing career with big hits like "Tall Paul", her romance with Paul Anka, her classic beach party films with Frankie Avalon, and her first marriage. It also shows her large comeback in the late 1980s and her second marriage, and the day when she found out she had multiple sclerosis.
You can now watch A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story online on the following streaming providers in the United States.
| Directing | Bill Corcoran | Director |
| Production | Jay Firestone | Co-Executive Producer |
| Camera | Jan Kiesser | Director of Photography |
| Art | Linda Del Rosario | Production Design |
| Art | Richard Paris | Production Design |
| Editing | George Appleby | Editor |
| Sound | George Blondheim | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Ron French | Producer |
| Writing | John McGreevey | Teleplay |
| Writing | PJ Torokvei | Teleplay |
| Writing | Annette Funicello | Book |
| Writing | Patricia Romanowski | Book |
| Production | Stanley M. Brooks | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ron French | Unit Production Manager |
| Directing | Richard Flower | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Julia Done | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Ellen Lubin Sanitsky | Casting |
| Crew | Maddalena Acconci | Choreographer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maya Mani | Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Linda Lee Langdon | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Janet Sala | Hairstylist |
| Art | Richard Paris | Art Direction |
| Art | Linda Del Rosario | Art Direction |
| Art | David Chiasson | Set Decoration |
| Art | Faye Thorp | Assistant Set Decoration |
| Production | Paul D. Goldman | Executive In Charge Of Production |