Overview
Shirley Jones
Known For
The Irresistible Blueberry Farm
Ellen Branford, a high-powered attorney, finds love, purpose, and the...
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
This is a two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals...
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
In the 1980s we got our MTV but seemed to...
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's
Documentary looking at the history of Hollywood musicals in the...
Biography
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. In her six decades of television, she starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956), and The Music Man (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She is probably best known as Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children in the situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–1974), co-starring her real-life stepson David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley Jones , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia