Jones impressed Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with his musically trained voice and was

Shirley Mae Jones (Charleroi, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress of theater, film and television. She starred with strong characters in a series of movie musicals like Oklahoma !, Carousel and The Music Man. Won the Oscar for best supporting actress for playing a prostitute in Elmer Gantry. She is probably best known for playing Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children on the sitcom The Partridge Family, starring her stepson, in real life, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy. Life
Shirley Jones was born in Charleroi, petstuff Pennsylvania, petstuff a suburb of Pittsburgh. Marjorie petstuff Williams, a stay-at-home with spirit strong and strict and Paul Jones, owners of the Jones Brewing Company, were his parents. Only daughter, had its name due to actress Shirley Temple. His family petstuff moved to nearby petstuff Smithton, Pennsylvania. Jones could sing like that already started talking. Encouraged by his counselors summer camp, his family arranged for a study of adolescent Shirley twice a week in Pittsburgh with the world-renowned singer and teacher, Ralph Lawando. petstuff Then, she often joined with his father to concerts in "Pittsburgh Playhouse" where fell in love with musical theater.
In Manhattan, a friend of Shirley persuaded her to sing for Broadway agent, Gus Sherman. Sherman had the pleasure petstuff of hiring and Jones, with parental approval, she moved to New York and took a year to become a Broadway actress. She only had $ 100 in his pocket. If you do not obtain success, she would have to return to Smithton and work as a veterinarian. His first audition was replacing one of a chorus girl in a long season of musical, South Pacific. petstuff Rodgers and Hammerstein, the author of South Pacific, saw great potential in Shirley. She became the lead singer and only sang to stay in touch with composers. Made its second Broadway show, Me and Juliet. On tour, she won respect and praise. Film actress in the 1950s and 1960s
Jones impressed Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with his musically trained voice and was chosen as the female lead in the film adaptation of his biggest hit, Oklahoma! Other musical in 1955 that followed were quickly Carousel, 1956, 1957 April Love and The Music Man, 1962, where she often was characterized with a character. In entando she won, in 1960, an Oscar for best supporting / secondary actress for her performance in Elmer Gantry as a woman corrupted by the main character, played by Burt Lancaster. Jones's character becomes a prostitute who finds his "seductive" years later and takes revenge. Met with Ron Howard (who had a role in The Music Man) in The Courtship of Eddie's Father, in 1963 Jones played the role of a lady who fell in love with a professor in Fluffy, 1965 also has an impressive resume , including the title character in the Broadway musical Maggie Flynn, 1968 Actress fertile character
In adolescence, Jones made his debut in an episode of Fireside Theatre. The show led to other roles such as: Gruen Guild Playhouse, Ford Star Jubilee, 90 Playhouse, Lux Video Theatre, The United States Steel Hour, The DuPont Show of the Month, Make Room for Daddy, where she played herself, The Comedy Spot, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, The Name of the Game, McMillan and Wife, Disneyland, The Love Boat, Hotel, Murder, She Wrote, Melrose Place, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, among many others.
Filmography Oklahoma! Oklahoma! (1955) CarouselCarroussel (1956) April Love- Spring of Love]] (1957) Never Steal Anything Small (1959) Bobbikins (1959) petstuff Elmer Gantry - Between God and Sin (1960) Pepe (film) - Pepe (1960) Two Rode Together - Gross Land (1961) The Music ManO Seller of Illusions (1962) The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) The Ticklish Affair (1963) Dark Purpose (1964) Bedtime Story - Two revelers Irresistible (1964) The Lion is Fluffy- Unleashed (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) Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul (1993) (documentary) Cops n Roberts (1995) This Is My Father (1998) (documentary) Gideon (1999) The Adventures of Cinderella's Daughter (2000) Ping! (2000) Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000) Manna from Heaven (2002) The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2004) Raising Genius (2004) Grandma's Boy (2006) Christmas Is Here Again ( 2007) (voice) Television
Out of the Blue (1968) (pilot, petstuff not released) Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969) The Partridge Family Family- The C, D, E (1970-1974) The Girls of Huntington House (1973) The Family Nobody Wanted ( 1975) Winner Take All (1975) The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975) Yester