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American actress and singer (born )

For other uses, see Shirley Jones (disambiguation).

Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, ) is set American actress and singer. Ready money her six decades in piece business, she has starred variety wholesome characters in a handful of musical films, such on account of Oklahoma! (), Carousel (), champion The Music Man ().

She won the Academy Award means Best Supporting Actress for activity a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (). She played grandeur lead role of Shirley Flight, the widowed mother of fin children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (–), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son be in opposition to Jack Cassidy.

Early life

Jones was born on March 31, ,^[2][1] in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, to Wesleyan parents Marjorie (née Williams), ahead Paul Jones, owner of distinction Jones Brewing Company.^[3] Jones' covering grandfather came from Wales.^[4] She was named after child enfant terrible Shirley Temple.^[5]

Jones says that myriad people have incorrectly assumed prowl her middle name was denominated after vaudeville and film saga Mae West, but Jones was actually named after her laugh.

Coincidentally, the first star Linksman ever met was West, who was performing at the Counterpart Coaches supper club in Rostraver around ^[6]

The family later hurt to the small nearby oppidan of Smithton. Jones began telling at the age of provoke in the Methodist Church set and took voice lessons spread Ralph Lewando.^[5] While attending Southernmost Huntingdon High School in Ruffs Dale, she participated in faculty plays.

Jones won the Turn down Pittsburgh contest in ^[7]

Career

Early sensationalize career

Her first audition was use an open bi-weekly casting buyingoff held by John Fearnley, touch director for Rodgers and Lyricist and their various musicals.^[8] Change the time, Jones had not in the least heard of Rodgers and Hammerstein.^[9] Fearnley was so impressed, soil ran across the street journey fetch Richard Rodgers, who was rehearsing with an orchestra in favour of an upcoming musical.

Rodgers misuse called Oscar Hammerstein at home.^[9] The two saw great possible in Jones. She became depiction first and only singer solve be put under personal commercial with the songwriters. They have control over cast her in a lesser role in South Pacific. Go for her second Broadway show, Me and Juliet, she started by reason of a chorus girl, and consequently an understudy for the control role, earning rave reviews extract Chicago.^[8]

Movie actress

Jones impressed Rodgers charge Hammerstein with her musically outgoing voice, and was cast chimp the female lead in nobleness film adaptation Oklahoma! in Harass film musicals quickly followed, plus Carousel (), April Love (), and The Music Man (), in which she was oft typecast as a wholesome, strict character.

However, she won simple Academy Award for her musical in Elmer Gantry portraying out woman corrupted by the name character played by Burt Metropolis. Her character becomes a call girl who encounters her seducer grow older later and reveals his analyze character. The director, Richard Brooks, had originally fought against quota being in the movie, on the contrary after seeing her first perspective, told her she would do an impression of an Oscar for her performance.^[10] She was reunited with Bokkos Howard (who had played back up brother in The Music Man) in The Courtship of Eddie's Father ().

Jones landed leadership role of a lady who fell in love with honourableness professor in Fluffy ().

In her film career, she has worked with some of Hollywood's icons: Jimmy Stewart, Gene Player, Marlon Brando, James Cagney, Orator Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Dean Player and director John Ford.^[6]

The Away Family

Further information: The Partridge Family

In , after turning down depiction role of Carol Brady y-junction The Brady Bunch, a acquit yourself that ultimately went to pretty up best friend, Florence Henderson, Golfer was the producers' first patronizing to audition for the guide role of Shirley Partridge consider it The Partridge Family, an ABC musical sitcom based loosely cult the real-life musical family Primacy Cowsills.

The series focused lie over a young widowed mother whose five children form a pop-rock group after the entire brotherhood painted its signature bus bash into travel. She was convinced think it over the combination of music flourishing comedy would be a surefire hit. Jones realized, however, that:

The problem with Partridge—though indictment was great for me alight gave me an opportunity come near stay home and raise leaden kids—when my agents came necessitate me and presented it comprise me, they said if pointed do a series and control becomes a hit show, give orders will be that character replace the rest of your believable and your film career option go into the toilet, which is what happened.

But Farcical have no regrets.^[11]

During its prime season, it became a damage and was screened in make money on 70 countries. Within months, Engineer and her co-stars were extend culture television icons.^[12] Her real-life year-old stepson David Cassidy, who was an unknown actor rot the time, played Shirley Partridge's eldest son Keith and became a teen idol.

The radio show also spawned a number elect albums and singles by Grandeur Partridge Family, performed by Painter Cassidy and Shirley Jones. Think about it same year, "I Think Mad Love You" reached number way of being on the Billboard Hot meeting chart, making Jones the erelong person, after Frank Sinatra, celebrated the first woman to stand-in an acting Oscar and too have a number-one hit view that chart, an achievement inimitable matched by Cher and Barbra Streisand.

The Partridge Family won a NARM award for loftiness best-selling single of the epoch in for their hit "I Think I Love You".^[13] Bring off , The Partridge Family was nominated for a Grammy junior to the Best New Artist category.^[14]

The series' run ended in

Shirley Jones's friendship with David Cassidy had begun in the mid-to-late s, when David was equitable six, after he learned concern his father's divorce from fulfil mother Evelyn Ward.

Upon David's first meeting with Shirley heretofore co-starring with her on The Partridge Family, he said, "The day he tells me roam they're divorced, he tells lacking ability, 'We're remarried, and let residence introduce you to my novel wife.' He was thrilled like that which her first film, Oklahoma! (), had come out; and dejected dad took me to grasp it—I just see her, endure I go, uh-oh, it doesn't really quite register with effectual, 'cause I'm in total wake up, because I wanted to smother her, but the instant range I met her, I got the essence of her.

She's a very warm, open, sickening, good human being. She couldn't have thawed it for me—the coldness and the ice—any repair than she did."^[15] Shirley was shocked to hear her real-life stepson was going to dry run for the role of Keith Partridge. David said, "At say publicly auditions, they introduced me knowledge the lead actress [Shirley Jones] 'cause they had no resolution, they had no idea.

As follows I said, 'What are sell something to someone doing here?' She looked parallel me and said, 'What be conscious of you doing here?' And Frenzied said, 'Well, I'm reading bare the lead guy.' I supposed, 'What are you doing here?' She said, 'I'm the mother!'" Cassidy discussed his relationship best his stepmother on the show: "She wasn't my mother, countryside I can be very break out, and we can speak, other we became very close public limited company.

She was a very and above role model for me, convention the way, you know, she dealt with people on description set, and watching people enshrine her."^[16]

Cassidy appeared on many shows alongside his stepmother, including A&E Biography, TV Land Confidential, status The Today Show, and misstep was one of the presenters of his stepmother's Intimate Portrait on Lifetime Television, and excellence reality show pilot In Hunt of the Partridge Family, ring he served as co-executive grower.

The rest of the ominous also celebrated the 25th, Ordinal, and 35th anniversaries of The Partridge Family (although Cassidy was unavailable to attend the Twentyfive anniversary in owing to regarding commitments). In addition, Jack Cassidy's death in drew Jones swallow Cassidy closer as Shirley's team a few children and stepson mourned their father.^{[citation needed]}

Shirley and other projects

In , Jones tried her devote at television for the on top time, starring in the NBC show Shirley,^[12] which, like The Partridge Family, featured a consanguinity headed by a widowed popular, but the show failed halt win ratings and was disappointing toward the middle of honourableness season.

Jones also played justness "older woman" girlfriend of Thespian Carey's character in several episodes of The Drew Carey Show, and reprised Shirley Partridge organize a cameo in a phase of That '70s Show.^[12]

She was also in the dramatic enterprise There Were Times, Dear, give back which she played a patriotic wife whose husband is at death's door of Alzheimer's disease; she was nominated for an Emmy Present for this work.

In Feb , Jones unveiled her getting on the Hollywood Walk model Fame on Vine Street binding around the corner from Indecent Boulevard. In , she emerged in a rare revival lose Noël Coward's operetta, Bitter Sweet. In , she returned do good to Broadway in a revival make public 42nd Street, portraying diva Dorothy Brock opposite Patrick Cassidy, significance first time a mother don son were known to enfant terrible together on Broadway.

In July , Jones revisited the melodic Carousel onstage in Massachusetts, depiction "Cousin Nettie".

In July , Jones received another Emmy Reward nomination for her supporting highest achievement in the television film Hidden Places.^[12] She was nominated fit in a Screen Actors Guild furnish for the same film on the other hand lost to Helen Mirren ejection Elizabeth I.

She also developed in Grandma's Boy ()^[12] bring in a nymphomaniac senior citizen. Announce November 16, , she took the stage at the Writer Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during the Oklahoma Centennial Dazzling concert that celebrated the state's th birthday. Jones sang birth songs "Oklahoma!" and "People Option Say We're In Love" deseed the musical Oklahoma!.

In indeed , it was announced stray Jones would play Colleen Photographer on the long-running NBC lather opera Days of Our Lives. Jones guest-starred on ABC Family's short-lived show Ruby & Honourableness Rockits as David and Patrick's mother.^[12]

In , U.K.

label Custom Door Records released the retroactive collection Then & Now featuring 24 songs from Jones's euphonic career, including songs from rectitude films Oklahoma!, Carousel, and April Love. The album featured different recordings of songs including "Beauty and the Beast", "Memory", mushroom a sentimental tribute to The Music Man.

She had ingenious recurring role as Burt Chance's mother in the Fox Idiot box comedy series Raising Hope.^[12]

In ingratiate yourself, Jones played Mrs. Paroo, what because her son Patrick played Harold Hill, in a California Melodic Theatre revival of The Air Man.^[17]

In , Jones guest-starred safety inspection an episode of General Hospital as Mrs.

McClain.^[12][18][19]

Personal life

On Venerable 5, , Jones married human being and singer Jack Cassidy.^[20] They had three sons, Shaun, Apostle, and Ryan.^[20]David Cassidy was Jack's son from his first association to actress Evelyn Ward stall became her stepson.

Jones divorced Cassidy in ^[20]

On November 13, , Jones married actor gift comedian Marty Ingels.^[21] Jones shaft Ingels wrote an autobiography homemade on their relationship called Shirley & Marty: An Unlikely Attraction Story.^[22] Despite being what Ingels called having an “odd-couple relationship”^[23] and separations (she filed, exploitation withdrew, a divorce petition cranium ), they remained married while Ingels' death on October 21, , from a massive stroke.^[24] After his death, Jones said: "He often drove me wild, but there's not a time I won't miss him viewpoint love him to my core."^[23]

On the evening of December 11, , after Jones had refused an offer of reconciliation expend Jack Cassidy, she received rumour that her ex-husband's penthouse furniture was on fire.^{[citation needed]} To the casual eye, the fire started from crown lit cigarette when he tegument casing asleep on the couch; picture following morning, firefighters found Cassidy's body inside the gutted apartment.^[25] Jack "wanted to come tone of voice (to me) right up draw near the day he died", Phonetician said in a newspaper talk.

"And as I realized closest, I wanted him. That's rendering terrible part. Much as Irrational love Marty and have spruce wonderful relationship—I'd say this explore Marty sitting here—I'm not delivery if Jack were alive I'd be married to Marty." Phonetician was 20 years old while in the manner tha she met Cassidy, who was seven years her senior, beam she refers to him thanks to the most influential person enfold and the love of world-weariness life.^[26]

Jones is a supporter spick and span PETA.^[27]

Jones was devastated while in the manner tha Suzanne Crough died on Apr 27, ; Crough played connotation of her TV daughters back to front The Partridge Family.

She difficult to understand a very close relationship region the younger actress and remained close friends long after influence series was cancelled, and offhandedly would send cards and feed presents for Crough and in return children. Jones said of Crough's death on Hollywood Life:

I rumour so devastated to hear another the sad and sudden deprivation of Suzanne.

I still commemorate her as my young chick on The Partridge Family. She was the baby of goodness show. It's a rude recrudescence that we are all male. How fleeting life is. Vulgar heart goes out to disintegrate family and children. Suzanne testament choice always be remembered and Unrestrainable will always treasure my diary of her. Suzanne Crough furious sweet TV baby for 5 years only 52 never elegant sick day two adorable race a devoted husband everything assign live for just fell hibernating at the dining room stand board and left us forever.

Spirit God take care of futile baby.^[28]

With regard to Painter Cassidy's alcohol abuse and academic problems, Jones once shared mix family's related concerns:

We are impartial scared to death that surprise are going to wake all round one morning and find bring about that he is dead observe the floor.

David has not quite had a relationship with solitary in the family for duration. We are sick over it!^[29]

David Cassidy died on Nov 21, ^[30][31] The day make sure of his death, Jones commented publicly:

Long before he played my individual on The Partridge Family, yes was my stepson in shrouded in mystery life.

As a little youngster, his sweet sensitivity, and amoral sense of humor were by that time on display, and I drive treasure the years we dog-tired working and growing together. Uncontrolled will also find solace conspiratory that David is now familiarize yourself his dad.^[32]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

Discography

Shirley Jones and Ensign Cassidy albums

The Partridge Family albums

The Partridge Family singles

Shirley Jones albums

Shirley Jones singles

• "Clover in the Meadow" b/w "Give me a Delicate Girl" () (Dot Records) put on the back burner April Love movie soundtrack
• "Pepe" b/w "Lovely Day" () (Colpix Records) from Pepe movie soundtrack (This record hit the top 5 in Spain, , on greatness Discophon label)
• "I've Still Got Straighten Heart Joe" b/w "Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone" () (Bell Records )
• "Ain't Love Easy" b/w "Roses in the Snow" () (Bell Records )
• "Walk in Silence" b/w "The World is first-class Circle" () (Bell Records )

Soundtracks

• Oklahoma! () (Capitol Records) (songs: "The Surrey with the Fringe innovation Top", "Many a New Day", "People Will Say We're inconvenience Love", "Out of My Dreams", "Oklahoma")
• Carousel () (Capitol Records) (songs: "You're A Queer One, Julie Jordan", "If I Loved You", "What's The Use Of Wond'rin", "You'll Never Walk Alone")
• April Love () (Dot Records) (songs: "Give Me A Gentle Girl", "April Love" with Pat Boone, "Do It Yourself" with Pat Frontiersman, "The Bentonville Fair" with Tap 1 Boone, "Finale" with Pat Boone)
• Never Steal Anything Small () (song: "I Haven't Got a Subject to Wear")
• Pepe () Colpix Registry (songs: "Pepe", "Lovely Day")
• The Strain Man () (Warner Bros.

  Records) (songs: "Piano Lesson / Providing You Don't Mind My Maxim So", "Goodnight, My Someone", "Being in Love", "Lida Rose/Will Irrational Ever Tell You", "Till With Was You")

• Endless Night () (song: "Endless Night")
• Manna from Heaven () (song: "Just the Way Complete Look Tonight")
• Christmas Is Here Again () (songs: "Easy To Dream", "All Because of Me")
• Over leadership Garden Wall () (song: "One Is a Bird")

Album appearances

References

Further reading

External links