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Shirley Jones
American actress and singer (born 1934)
For other uses, see Shirley Jones (disambiguation).
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) 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 mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–1974), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.
Early life
Jones was born on March 31, 1934,[2][1] in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, to Methodist parents Marjorie (née Williams), and Paul Jones, owner of the Jones Brewing Company.[3] Jones' paternal grandfather came from Wales.[4&