From the LA Times:

Cheryl Holdridge dies at 64; popular Mouseketeer

After 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' the actress played Julie Foster on 'Leave it to Beaver' and appeared on 'The Rifleman,' 'Bachelor Father,' 'My Three Sons,' 'Bewitched' and 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

By Dennis McLellan

January 9, 2009

Cheryl Holdridge, the beautiful blond actress who first gained fame as a Mouseketeer on TV's "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s, has died. She was 64.

Holdridge died Tuesday at her home in Santa Monica after a two-year battle with lung cancer, said Doreen Tracey, another former Mouseketeer.

"What's amazing is that Cheryl and I have gone through so many things together, I'm glad I could have been there in the end too," Tracey said Thursday.

Holdridge was 11 years old in the spring of 1956 when she auditioned and was hired for "The Mickey Mouse Club," which had debuted on Oct. 3, 1955, with 24 talented youngsters who sang and danced and yet came across as the kids next door.

Holdridge joined the Mouseketeers in the second season of the show, which ran until 1959.

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