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Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of 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 vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed…
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entertainment · American actress and singer (born 1934) · actor · singer · musician · television actor · film actor · stage actor · also Shirley Jones, Shirley Mae Jones, Jones
Born 31 March 1934 · Q230218
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2015· 1 entry
“He often drove me crazy, but there”
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2014· 1 entry
Jones guest-starred on an episode of General Hospital as Mrs
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2007· 1 entry
Took the stage at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during the Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular concert that celebrated the state's 100th birthday
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2004· 1 entry
Returned to Broadway in a revival of 42nd Street, portraying diva Dorothy Brock opposite Patrick Cassidy, the first time a mother and son were known to star together on Broadway
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Speaking of Love & With Love from Hollywood”.
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1983· 2 entries
Jack "wanted to come back (to me) right up to the day he died", Jones said in a 1983 newspaper interview. "And as I realized later, I wanted him.
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Appeared in a rare revival of Noël Coward's operetta, Bitter Sweet
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1979· 1 entry
Jones tried her hand at television for the second time, starring in the NBC show Shirley, which, like The Partridge Family, featured a family headed by a widowed mother
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1977· 1 entry
Jones married actor and comedian Marty Ingels
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1976· 2 entries
Drew Jones and Cassidy closer, as Shirley's three children and stepson mourned their father
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“And as I realized later, I wanted him. That”
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1975· 1 entry
Jones starred in Winner Take All as a compulsive gambler who wrecks her marriage by stealing from her husband and by eventually cheating on him with her bookie
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Bulletin Board”.
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1972· 2 entries
“Looking Through the Eyes of Love”
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“It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)”
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1971· 4 entries
“Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted”
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“I Woke Up In Love This Morning”
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The Partridge Family was nominated for a Grammy under the Best New Artist category
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“Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone”
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1970· 1 entry
After turning down the role of Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch, a role that ultimately went to her best friend, Florence Henderson, Jones was the producers' first choice to audition for the lead role of Shirley Partridge
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Elmer Gantry (1961).
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1956· 1 entry
Jones married actor and singer Jack Cassidy
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1934· 2 entries
In Charleroi, Pennsylvania, to Methodist parents Marjorie (née Williams), and Paul Jones, owner of the Jones Brewing Company
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Born 1934-03-31.
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