Actors - Shirley Jones

Home > Listing Index > Actors > Shirley Jones

	Actors - Shirley Jones

Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is a singer and actress, perhaps best known for her starring role as "Shirley Partridge," the widowed mother of five children, in the television series The Partridge Family, in which, she played the mother of David Cassidy, who was her real-life stepson. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Charleroi, Pennsylvania and is of Welsh descent.

An only child, she was named after Shirley Temple. She won a beauty pageant as a teenager and was crowned "Miss Pittsburgh 1952."

Before The Partridge Family, Shirley had already achieved fame as a singer and actress. She starred in many films, including the highly successful musicals Oklahoma!
, Carousel, and The Music Man
. In a rare "naughty girl" role, she won an Academy Award as a prostitute corrupted by Burt Lancaster, who then takes revenge upon him in Elmer Gantry
.

She married actor Jack Cassidy on August 5, 1956, with whom she had 3 sons, Shaun, Patrick and Ryan; David Cassidy became her stepson. Shirley and David both starred in The Partridge Family. Divorcing Cassidy in 1974, she married comic/actor Marty Ingels on November 13, 1977. Despite several separations (she filed, then withdrew a divorce petition in 2002) and amazingly different personalities, they remain married.

Although best known for her movie and television roles, Shirley has an impressive stage résumé, including the musical Maggie Flynn on Broadway and a stellar turn in a rare revival of Noel Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet at the Long Beach Civic Light Opera in 1983. In 2004, Shirley returned to Broadway in a revival of 42nd Street, portraying diva "Dorothy Brock", opposite her son, Patrick Cassidy, the first known time a mother and son starred together on Broadway. In July 2005, Shirley revisited the musical Carousel onstage in Massachusetts portraying Cousin Nettie. Shirley continues to appear in venues nationwide, in concert and in speaking engagements.

She is a registered Republican who appeared at the 1988 Republican Convention and sang the National Anthem. She also sang at the 2003 Christmas Tree Lighting in Washington, D.C., at George W. Bush's request.

Filmography

Oklahoma!
(1955)
Carousel (1956)
April Love (1957)
Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
Bobbikins (1960)
Elmer Gantry
(1960)
Pepe
(1960)
Two Rode Together
(1961)
The Music Man
(1962)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
(1963)
A Ticklish Affair (1963)
Dark Purpose (1964)
Bedtime Story (1964)
Fluffy (1965)
The Secret of My Success (1965)
The Gulf (1969)
The Happy Ending
(1969)
Oddly Coupled (1970)
The Cheyenne Social Club
(1970)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
(1979)
Tank
(1984)
Cops n Roberts (1995) (Cameo)
This Is My Father (1998) (documentary)
Gideon
(1999)
The Adventures of Cinderella's Daughter (2000)
Ping! (2000)
Manna from Heaven (2002)
The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2004)
Raising Genius (2004)
Grandma's Boy
(2006)

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Shirley Jones ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Shirley Jones; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Actors - Shirley Jones

Filmography

Searches on eBay

Related searches on eBay