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{{Short description|American actress and singer (born 1934)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Shirley Jones
| image              = Shirley Jones - agency photo 1970s.jpg
| caption            = Jones in the 1970s
| birth_name         = Shirley Mae Jones<ref name=Mae>{{cite web |title=Shirley Jones |url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Jones__Shirley |website=pabook.libraries.psu.edu |publisher=[[Pennsylvania State University]] |access-date=18 December 2023}}</ref>
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1934|3|31}}
| birth_place        = {{nowrap|[[Charleroi, Pennsylvania]], U.S.}}
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actress|singer}}
| years_active       = 1950–present
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Jack Cassidy]]<br>|1956|1975|reason=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Marty Ingels]]<br>|1977|2015|reason=d.}}
}}
| children           =3, including [[Shaun Cassidy|Shaun]] and [[Patrick Cassidy (actor)|Patrick]]
| module             = {{Infobox musical artist
| embed    = yes
| background  = solo_singer
| genre    = {{flatlist|
*[[Pop music|Pop]]
*[[traditional pop]]
*[[Gospel music|gospel]]}}
| instrument  = Vocals
| label    = {{flatlist|
*[[Colpix Records|Colpix]]
*[[RCA Victor]]
*[[Bell Records|Bell]]
*[[A&M Records|A&M]]
*Diadem
*[[Stage Door Records|Stage Door]]
*Encore Music Presents}}
| associated_acts = {{flatlist|
*[[The Partridge Family]]
*[[Jack Cassidy]]
*[[Pat Boone]]
*[[Gordon MacRae]]}}
| website   = {{URL|castproductions.com/shirleyjones.html}}
}}
}}

'''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! (film)|Oklahoma!]]'' (1955), ''[[Carousel (film)|Carousel]]'' (1956), and ''[[The Music Man (1962 film)|The Music Man]]'' (1962). She won the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]] for playing a vengeful [[Prostitution|prostitute]] in ''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]'' (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical [[sitcom|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,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shirley-Jones|title=Shirley Jones|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=31 March 2020}}</ref><ref name=Mae/> in [[Charleroi, Pennsylvania]], to [[Methodism|Methodist]] parents Marjorie (née Williams), and Paul Jones, owner of the Jones Brewing Company.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WBHgAgAAQBAJ&q=%22my+father+paul+jones%22&pg=PA6| title=Shirley Jones: A Memoir|last1=Jones|first1=Shirley|last2=Leigh|first2=Wendy | publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=2013|pages=6, 8 | isbn=9781476725963|access-date=31 March 2020 }}</ref> Jones' paternal grandfather came from [[Wales]].<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/E0qKyx8Hgqw Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200914214317/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qKyx8Hgqw&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media |via=YouTube |publisher=FoundationINTERVIEWS | medium = video |title=Shirley Jones Interview Part 2 of 5 - TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qKyx8Hgqw |access-date=27 March 2020 |date=March 26, 2012 | people =Shirley Jones}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She was named after child star [[Shirley Temple]].<ref name="Summers">{{cite web |last1=Summers |first1=Kim |title=Artist Biography |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/shirley-jones-mn0000025408/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref>

Jones says that many people have incorrectly assumed that her middle name was named after [[vaudeville]] and film legend [[Mae West]], but Jones was actually named after her aunt. Coincidentally, the first star Jones ever met was West, who was performing at the Twin Coaches supper club in [[Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania|Rostraver]] around 1954.<ref name="Segal">{{cite web |last1=Segal |first1=Steve |title=Shirley Jones a Western Pa. girl at heart |url=https://archive.triblive.com/features/movies-tv/shirley-jones-a-western-pa-girl-at-heart/ |website=Tribune-Review |access-date=27 March 2020 |location=Pittsburgh |date=April 13, 2016}}</ref>

The family later moved to the small nearby town of [[Smithton, Pennsylvania|Smithton]]. Jones began singing at the age of six in the [[Methodism|Methodist]] Church choir and took voice lessons from Ralph Lewando.<ref name="Summers"/> While attending [[Southern Huntingdon County Middle/High School|South Huntingdon High School]] in [[Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania|Ruffs Dale]], she participated in school plays.

Jones won the Miss Pittsburgh contest in 1952.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WbwiAAAAIBAJ&pg=1224,4097980| title=Shirley's doin' fine in 'Oklahoma'| newspaper=Beaver County Times| date=June 17, 2007| first=Patti| last=Conley| page=B1| access-date=July 23, 2013 |via=Google News}}</ref>

==Career==
===Early stage career===
[[File:GreenWhiteHouse.jpg|right|thumb|A program featuring Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy at the [[White House]] in 1957]]
Her first audition was for an open bi-weekly [[casting call]] held by John Fearnley, [[casting director]] for [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]] and their various musicals.<ref name="luckiest">{{cite news| url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YwUrAAAAIBAJ&pg=2516,1122622| work=Reading Eagle| date=October 18, 1954| first=Bob| last=Thomas| title=Writer Ranks Shirley Jones Luckiest Girl in Hollywood |via=Google News}}</ref> At the time, Jones had never heard of Rodgers and Hammerstein.<ref name="sings">{{cite podcast| url=https://www.npr.org/2011/01/16/132975286/Shirley-Jones-Sings-For-Richard-Rodgers| title=Shirley Jones Sings For Richard Rodgers| website=NPR| host=Liane Hansen| date=January 16, 2011| access-date=March 28, 2020}}</ref> Fearnley was so impressed, he ran across the street to fetch [[Richard Rodgers]], who was rehearsing with an orchestra for an upcoming musical. Rodgers then called [[Oscar Hammerstein II|Oscar Hammerstein]] at home.<ref name="sings"/> The two saw great potential in Jones. She became the first and only singer to be put under personal contract with the songwriters. They first cast her in a minor role in ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]''. For her second Broadway show, ''[[Me and Juliet]]'', she started as a chorus girl, and then an understudy for the lead role, earning rave reviews in [[Chicago]].<ref name="luckiest"/>

===Movie actress===
Jones impressed Rodgers and Hammerstein with her musically trained voice, and was cast as the female lead in the film adaptation [[Oklahoma! (film)|''Oklahoma!'']] in 1955. Other film musicals quickly followed, including ''[[Carousel (film)|Carousel]]'' (1956), ''[[April Love (film)|April Love]]'' (1957), and ''[[The Music Man (1962 film)|The Music Man]]'' (1962), in which she was often [[Typecasting (acting)|typecast]] as a wholesome, kind character. However, she won a 1960 [[Academy Award]] for her performance in ''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]'' portraying a woman corrupted by the title character played by [[Burt Lancaster]]. Her character becomes a prostitute who encounters her seducer years later and reveals his true character. The director, [[Richard Brooks]], had originally fought against her being in the movie, but after seeing her first scene, told her she would win an Oscar for her performance.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://video.dc50tv.com/25004213| title=Why a Director Didn't Want Shirley Jones in His Film| date=August 9, 2013| publisher=[[WDCW]]}}{{Dead link|fix-attempted=yes|date=March 2020}}</ref> She was reunited with [[Ron Howard]] (who had played her brother in ''The Music Man'') in ''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Father (film)|The Courtship of Eddie's Father]]'' (1963). With an uncharacteristically brunette hairstyle, Jones played the role of a woman who falls in love with Tony Randall's lion-owning professor in ''[[Fluffy (1965 film)|Fluffy]]'' (1965).

In her film career, she has worked with some of Hollywood's icons: [[James Stewart|Jimmy Stewart]], [[Gene Kelly]], [[Marlon Brando]], [[James Cagney]], [[Henry Fonda]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Dean Martin]] and director [[John Ford]].<ref name=Segal/>

===''The Partridge Family''===
{{Further|The Partridge Family}}[[File:The Partridge Family Cast 1972.jpg|150px|left|thumb|Jones with fellow cast members of ''[[The Partridge Family]]'' in 1972]]
[[File:The Partridge Family Cast 1970 No 2.jpg|thumb|''The Partridge Family'', season 1]]
In 1970, 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 in ''[[The Partridge Family]]'', an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] musical sitcom based loosely on the real-life musical family [[The Cowsills]]. The series focused on a young widowed mother whose five children form a pop-rock group after the entire family painted its signature bus to travel. She was convinced that the combination of music and comedy would be a surefire hit. Jones realized, however, that:

{{Blockquote |The problem with ''Partridge''—though it was great for me and gave me an opportunity to stay home and raise my kids—when my agents came to me and presented it to me, they said if you do a series and it becomes a hit show, you will be that character for the rest of your life and your film career will go into the toilet, which is what happened. But I have no regrets.<ref>{{cite news| last=King| first=Susan| title=Shirley Jones: No Regrets, and Still Going Strong at 75|work=Vancouver Sun| date=May 26, 2009| page=35| url=https://vancouversun.newspapers.com/image/497427246/?terms=Shirley%2BJones%3A%2BNo%2BRegrets%2C%2Band%2BStill%2BGoing%2BStrong%2Bat%2B75| url-access=subscription|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>}}

During its first season, it became a hit and was screened in over 70 countries. Within months, Jones and her co-stars were [[popular culture|pop culture]] television icons.<ref name=TVGuide>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/shirley-jones/credits/174626/|title=Shirley Jones|website=TVGuide.com|publisher=[[TV Guide]]|access-date=January 24, 2020}}</ref> Her real-life 20-year-old stepson [[David Cassidy]], who was an unknown actor at the time, played Shirley Partridge's eldest son Keith and became a [[teen idol]]. The show also spawned a number of albums and singles by The Partridge Family, performed by David Cassidy and Shirley Jones. That same year, "[[I Think I Love You]]" reached number one on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] music chart, making Jones the second person, after [[Frank Sinatra]], and the first woman to win an acting Oscar and also have a number-one hit on that chart, an achievement only matched by [[Cher]] and [[Barbra Streisand]]. The Partridge Family won a [[NARM]] award for the best-selling single of the year in 1970 for their hit "I Think I Love You".<ref name="Cassidy">{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=David |last2=Deffaa |first2=Chip |title=C'mon, Get Happy...Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus |date=1994 |publisher=Warner Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0446395311 |page=92 }}</ref> In 1971, The Partridge Family was nominated for a [[Grammy]] under the [[Best New Artist]] category.<ref>{{cite web| title=13th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1970)| url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/13th-annual-grammy-awards-1970| website=Recording Academy| date=November 28, 2017| access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref>

[[File:The Partridge Family Shirley Jones 1972.jpg|thumb|Jones in 1972]]

The series' run ended in 1974.

Shirley Jones's friendship with David Cassidy had begun in the mid-to-late 1950s, when David was just six, after he learned about his father's divorce from his mother Evelyn Ward. Upon David's first meeting with Shirley before co-starring with her on ''The Partridge Family'', he said, "The day he tells me that they're divorced, he tells me, 'We're remarried, and let me introduce you to my new wife.' He was thrilled when her first film, ''Oklahoma!'' (1955), had come out; and my dad took me to see it—I just see her, and I go, uh-oh, it doesn't really quite register with me, 'cause I'm in total shock, because I wanted to hate her, but the instant that I met her, I got the essence of her. She's a very warm, open, sweet, good human being. She couldn't have thawed it for me—the coldness and the ice—any more than she did."<ref>David Cassidy quoted on a Biography Channel episode about Shirley Jones – airdate January 10, 2012</ref> Shirley was shocked to hear her real-life stepson was going to audition for the role of Keith Partridge. David said, "At the auditions, they introduced me to the lead actress [Shirley Jones] 'cause they had no idea, they had no idea. So I said, 'What are you doing here?' She looked at me and said, 'What are you doing here?' And I said, 'Well, I'm reading for the lead guy.' I said, 'What are you doing here?' She said, 'I'm the mother!'" Cassidy discussed his relationship with his stepmother on the show: "She wasn't my mother, and I can be very open, and we can speak, and we became very close friends. She was a very good role model for me, watching the way, you know, she dealt with people on the set, and watching people revere her."<ref>{{cite episode| title=Shirley Jones| network=[[A&E (TV channel)|A&E]]| series=[[Biography (TV program)|Biography]]| url=https://www.biography.com/video/shirley-jones-playlist-5324227558001| air-date=January 10, 2012}}</ref>

Cassidy appeared on many shows alongside his stepmother, including ''[[A&E Biography]]'', ''[[TV Land Confidential]]'', and ''[[Today (NBC program)|The Today Show]]'', and he was one of the presenters of his stepmother's ''[[Intimate Portrait]]'' on [[Lifetime Television]], and the reality show pilot ''In Search of the Partridge Family'', where he served as co-executive producer. The rest of the cast also celebrated the 25th, 30th, and 35th anniversaries of ''The Partridge Family'' (although Cassidy was unavailable to attend the 25th anniversary in 1995 owing to other commitments). In addition, Jack Cassidy's death in 1976 drew Jones and Cassidy closer as Shirley's three children and stepson mourned their father.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

===''Shirley'' and other projects===
In 1975, 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. In 1979, Jones tried her hand at television for the second time, starring in the [[NBC]] show ''[[Shirley (TV series)|Shirley]]'',<ref name=TVGuide /> which, like ''The Partridge Family'', featured a family headed by a widowed mother, but the show failed to win ratings and was cancelled toward the middle of the season. Jones also played the "older woman" girlfriend of Drew Carey's character in several episodes of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'', and reprised Shirley Partridge in a cameo in a 2000 episode of ''[[That '70s Show]].''<ref name=TVGuide />

[[File:Shirley Jones 2010.jpg|thumb|left|Jones in 2010]]
She was also in the dramatic project ''There Were Times, Dear'', in which she played a loyal wife whose husband is dying of [[Alzheimer's disease]]; she was nominated for an Emmy Award for this work.

In February 1986, Jones unveiled her star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] on Vine Street just around the corner from Hollywood Boulevard. In 1983, she appeared in a rare revival of [[Noël Coward]]'s operetta, ''[[Bitter Sweet (operetta)|Bitter Sweet]]''. In 2004, she returned to Broadway in a revival of ''[[42nd Street (musical)|42nd Street]]'', portraying diva Dorothy Brock opposite Patrick Cassidy, the first time a mother and son were known to star together on Broadway. In July 2005, Jones revisited the musical ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'' onstage in Massachusetts, portraying "Cousin Nettie".

In July 2006, Jones received another Emmy Award nomination for her supporting performance in the television film ''[[Hidden Places]]''.<ref name=TVGuide /> She was nominated for a [[Screen Actors Guild]] award for the same film but lost to [[Helen Mirren]] for ''[[Elizabeth I (2005 TV series)|Elizabeth I]]''. She also appeared in ''[[Grandma's Boy (2006 film)|Grandma's Boy]]'' (2006)<ref name=TVGuide /> as a nymphomaniac senior citizen. On November 16, 2007, she took the stage at the [[Ford Center (Oklahoma City)|Ford Center]] in [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]], during the Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular concert that celebrated the state's 100th birthday. Jones sang the songs "[[Oklahoma (state song)|Oklahoma!]]" and "[[People Will Say We're In Love]]" from the musical ''Oklahoma!''.

[[File:ShirleyAndPatrick.jpg|thumb|right|Jones and Patrick Cassidy in 2012]]
In early 2008, it was announced that Jones would play [[Colleen Brady]] on the long-running [[NBC]] soap opera ''[[Days of Our Lives]]''. Jones guest-starred on [[Freeform (TV channel)|ABC Family]]'s short-lived show ''[[Ruby & The Rockits]]'' as David and Patrick's mother.<ref name=TVGuide />

In 2008, U.K. label [[Stage Door Records]] released the retrospective collection ''[[Then & Now (Shirley Jones album)|Then & Now]]'' featuring 24 songs from Jones's musical career, including songs from the films ''Oklahoma!'', ''Carousel'', and ''April Love''. The album featured new recordings of songs including "[[Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)|Beauty and the Beast]]", "[[Memory (Cats song)|Memory]]", and a sentimental tribute to ''The Music Man''. She had a recurring role as Burt Chance's mother in the [[Fox TV]] comedy series ''[[Raising Hope]]''.<ref name=TVGuide />

In mid-2012, Jones played Mrs. Paroo, when her son Patrick played Harold Hill, in a [[California Musical Theatre]] revival of ''The Music Man''.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.calmt.com/index.cfm?page=376298| title=The Music Man| website=California Musical Theatre| access-date=July 25, 2012| archive-date=May 14, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514132828/http://calmt.com/index.cfm?page=376298| url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2014, Jones guest-starred on an episode of ''[[General Hospital]]'' as [[List of General Hospital cast members|Mrs. McClain]].<ref name=TVGuide /><ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/Shirley-Jones-General-Hospital-1076089.aspx| title=First Look: Shirley Jones Guests on General Hospital| date=January 16, 2014| first=Michael| last=Logan| author-link=Michael Logan (journalist)| access-date=July 31, 2014| journal=[[TV Guide]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| url=http://soapoperadigest.com/content/shirley-jones-guest-gh| title=Shirley Jones To Guest On GH| journal=[[Soap Opera Digest]]| date=January 8, 2014| access-date=July 31, 2014}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:S. Jones - N. Reagan DA-SC-84-05835.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Jones (left) with [[First Lady of the United States|U.S. First Lady]] [[Nancy Reagan]], September 29, 1982]]
On August 5, 1956, Jones married actor and singer [[Jack Cassidy]].<ref name=donnelley/> They had three sons, [[Shaun Cassidy|Shaun]], [[Patrick Cassidy (actor)|Patrick]], and Ryan.<ref name=donnelley/> [[David Cassidy]] was Jack's son from his first marriage to actress [[Evelyn Ward]] and became her stepson. Jones divorced Cassidy in 1975.<ref name=donnelley>{{cite book|last=Donnelley|first=Paul|title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries|year=2003|publisher=Music Sales Group|isbn=0-711-99512-5|page=144}}</ref>

On November 13, 1977, Jones married actor and comedian [[Marty Ingels]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-marty-ingels-dies-at-79--20151022-story.html| title=Marty Ingels dies at 79; comedian was known for his raspy voice, marriage to Shirley Jones| agency=[[Associated Press]]| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]| date=October 22, 2015}}</ref>  Jones and Ingels wrote an autobiography based on their relationship called ''Shirley & Marty: An Unlikely Love Story''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Shirley & Marty An Unlikely Love Story |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JqIJIpYWhQAC&pg=PA3 | isbn=978-1-56171-236-6 |access-date=18 December 2023 | last1=Jones | first1=Shirley | last2=Ingles | first2=Marty | date=May 14, 1993 | publisher=SP Books }}</ref> Despite what Ingels called having an “odd-couple relationship”<ref name="Marty" /> and separations (she filed, then withdrew, a divorce petition in 2002), they remained married until Ingels' death on October 21, 2015, from a massive [[stroke]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/arts/television/marty-ingels-actor-and-comedian-is-dead-at-79.html?_r=0|title=Marty Ingels, Actor and Comedian, Is Dead at 79| first=Margalit| last=Fox| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| page=A24| date=October 23, 2015}}</ref> After his death, Jones said: "He often drove me crazy, but there's not a day I won't miss him and love him to my core."<ref name="Marty">{{cite news |url=https://www.variety.com/2015/biz/news/marty-ingels-shirley-jones-dead-at-79-1201623801/ |title=Marty Ingels, Actor and Husband of Shirley Jones, Dies at 79| last=Littleton| first=Cynthia| newspaper=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]| date=October 21, 2015| access-date=October 22, 2015}}</ref>

On the evening of December 11, 1976, after Jones had refused an offer of reconciliation from Jack Cassidy, she received news that her ex-husband's penthouse apartment was on fire.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} Apparently, the fire started from his lit cigarette when he fell asleep on the couch; the following morning, firefighters found Cassidy's body inside the gutted apartment.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2h4uAAAAIBAJ&pg=966,3548998&dq=jack+cassidy&hl=en| title=Jack Cassidy dead| newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette]]| date=December 14, 1976| agency=Associated Press| access-date=July 23, 2013}}</ref> 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. That's the terrible part. Much as I love Marty and have a wonderful relationship—I'd say this with Marty sitting here—I'm not sure if Jack were alive I'd be married to Marty." Jones was 20 years old when she met Cassidy, who was seven years her senior, and she refers to him as the most influential person in and the love of her life.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6T9PAAAAIBAJ&pg=6826,2661611&dq=shirley+jones+and+bitter+sweet&hl=en |title=Nice-Girl Image Plagues Actress Shirley Jones |work=Toledo Blade |first=D'Arcy |last=Fallon |date=April 10, 1983 |access-date=April 18, 2013}}</ref>

Jones is a supporter of [[PETA]].<ref>{{cite AV media | people =Shirley Jones | title =Life and Death for Factory-Farmed Turkeys, With Shirley Jones | medium =video | publisher =PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) | via =YouTube | date =Oct 30, 2018 | url =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl26vL-KE-4 }}</ref>

Jones was devastated when [[Suzanne Crough]] died on April 27, 2015; Crough played one of her TV daughters on ''The Partridge Family''.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://hollywoodlife.com/2015/04/28/suzanne-crough-death-shirley-jones-statement-the-patridge-family/| title=Shirley Jones 'Devastated' Over Suzanne Crough's Passing| last=Ishler| first=Julianne| journal=[[Hollywood Life]]| date=April 28, 2015| access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref>

==Filmography==

===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1955
|''[[Oklahoma! (film)|Oklahoma!]]''
| Laurey Williams
|
|-
|1956
|''[[Carousel (film)|Carousel]]''
|Julie Jordan
|
|-
|1957
|''[[April Love (film)|April Love]]''
|Liz Templeton
|[[Laurel Award| Laurel Award for Top Female Musical Performance]] (5th place)
|-
|1959
|''[[Never Steal Anything Small]]''
|Linda Cabot
|[[Laurel Award| Laurel Award for Top Female Musical Performance]] (3rd place)
|-
|1959
|''[[Bobbikins]]''
|Betty Barnaby
|
|-
|1960
|''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]''
|Lulu Bains
|[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]<br>[[Laurel Award| Laurel Award for Top Female Supporting Performance]]<br>[[National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress]]<br>Nominated-[[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture]]
|-
|1960
|''[[Pepe (1960 film)|Pepe]]''
|Suzie Murphy
|
|-
|1961
|''[[Two Rode Together]]''
|Marty Purcell
|
|-
|1962
|''[[The Music Man (1962 film)|The Music Man]]''
|Marian Paroo
|[[Laurel Award| Laurel Award for Top Female Musical Performance]] (3rd place)<br>Nominated-[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]]
|-
|1963
|''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Father (film)|The Courtship of Eddie's Father]]''
|Elizabeth Martan
|
|-
|1963
| ''[[A Ticklish Affair]]''
|Amy Martin
|
|-
|1964
|''[[Dark Purpose]]''
|Karen Williams
|
|-
|1964
| ''[[Bedtime Story (1964 film)|Bedtime Story]]''
|Janet Walker
|
|-
|1965
|''[[Fluffy (1965 film)|Fluffy]]''
|Janice Claridge
|
|-
|1965
|''[[The Secret of My Success (1965 film)|The Secret of My Success]]''
|Marigold Marido
|
|-
|1969
|''[[The Happy Ending]]''
|Flo Harrigan
|Reunited with her Elmer Gantry co-star Jean Simmons
|-
|1969
|''El Golfo''
|Mary O'Hara
|
|-
|1970
|''[[The Cheyenne Social Club]]''
|Jenny
|
|-
|1979
| ''[[Beyond the Poseidon Adventure]]''
|Nurse Gina Rowe
|
|-
|1984
|''[[Tank (film)|Tank]]''
|LaDonna Carey
|
|-
|1999
|''[[Gideon (film)|Gideon]]''
|Elly Morton
|
|-
|2000
|''The Adventures of Cinderella's Daughter''
|[[Fairy Godmother]]
|
|-
|2000
|''Ping!''
|Ethel Jeffries
|
|-
| 2000
|''[[Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth]]''
|Nurse Kervorkian
|
|-
|2002
|''[[Manna from Heaven (film)|Manna from Heaven]]''
|Bunny
|
|-
|2004
|''[[The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park]]''
|Charlotte
|
|-
|2004
|''[[Raising Genius]]''
|Aunt Sis
|
|-
|2006
|''[[Grandma's Boy (2006 film)|Grandma's Boy]]''
|Grace
|
|-
|2007
|''[[Christmas Is Here Again]]''
|[[Mrs. Claus|Victoria Claus]]
|Voice
|-
|2013
|''[[Family Weekend]]''
|GG
|
|-
|2013
|''A Strange Brand of Happy''
|Mildred
|
|-
|2013
|''[[Zombie Night (2013 film)|Zombie Night]]''
|Nana
|
|-
|2014
|''Waiting in the Wings: The Musical''
|Broadway Diva
|
|-
|2015
|''On the Wing''{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}
|Grandma Ryburn
|
|-
|2016
|''The Irresistible Blueberry Farm''
|Ruth
|Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
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| 2018
| ''Eco-Teens Save The World''
| Senator Jeremy Ryburn's Mother
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===Television===
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*1950: ''[[Fireside Theatre]]'' (acting debut)
*1952: ''[[Gruen Playhouse|Gruen Guild Playhouse]]''
*1956: ''[[Ford Star Jubilee]]''
*1956: ''[[Playhouse 90]]''
*1957: ''[[Lux Video Theatre]]''
*1957: ''[[The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom]]'' (guest)
*1957: ''[[The United States Steel Hour]]''
*1958: ''[[DuPont Show of the Month]]''
*1959: ''[[Make Room for Daddy]]'' (as herself)
*1964: ''[[Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre]]''
*1969: ''[[Silent Night, Lonely Night]]''
*1969: ''The Carol Burnett Show''
*1969: ''[[The Name of the Game (TV series)|The Name of the Game]]''
*1970–74: ''[[The Partridge Family]]''
*1971: ''Curiosity Shop'' (Episode: The Curiosity Shop Special)
*1973: ''[[The Girls of Huntington House]]''
*1975: ''[[The Family Nobody Wanted]]''
*1975: ''[[The Lives of Jenny Dolan]]''
*1975: ''Winner Take All''
*1977: ''[[McMillan & Wife]]''
*1977: ''Yesterday's Child''
*1978: ''[[Evening in Byzantium]]''
*1978: ''Who'll Save Our Children?''
*1979: ''A Last Cry for Help''
*1979–80: ''[[Shirley (TV series)|Shirley]]''
*1980: ''The Children of An Lac''
*1981: ''Inmates: A Love Story''
*1982: ''[[Pollyanna|The Adventures of Pollyanna]]''
*1983/87: ''[[Hotel (American TV series)|Hotel]]''
*1983: ''[[Hotel (American TV series)|Hotel]]'' (pilot)
*1983: ''[[The Love Boat]]''
*1985: ''There Were Times, Dear''
*1988/90: ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''
*1989: ''Charlie'' (unsold pilot)
*1997: ''[[Dog's Best Friend]]''
*1998: ''[[Melrose Place]]''
*1998: ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]''
*1999: ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]''
*2000: ''[[That '70s Show]]'' (cameo)
*2003: ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]''
*2006: ''[[Hidden Places]]''
*2006: ''[[Monarch Cove]]''
*2008: ''[[Days of Our Lives]]''
*2009: ''[[Ruby & The Rockits]]''
*2011/14: ''[[Raising Hope]]'' (3 episodes)
*2012: ''[[Good Luck Charlie]]'' (Episodes: "[[List of Good Luck Charlie episodes#ep64|Welcome Home]]", "A Duncan Christmas")<ref name="GLC">{{cite web |title=Good Luck Charlie |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/good-luck-charlie-2012/episode-20-season-3/a-duncan-christmas/303514/ |website=TV Guide |access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref>
*2012: ''[[Victorious]]'' (Episode: "[[List of Victorious episodes#ep37|Car, Rain, and Fire]]")
*2013: ''[[Cougar Town]]''
*2013: ''[[Hot in Cleveland]]''
*2014: ''[[General Hospital]]''
*2014: ''[[Over the Garden Wall]]'' (voice)
*2016: ''[[Childrens Hospital]]'' (cameo as herself)
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===Stage===
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*1953: ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]'' (Broadway)
*1954: ''[[Me and Juliet]]'' (Chicago)
*1956: ''[[Oklahoma!]]'' (European tour with [[Jack Cassidy]])
*1957: ''[[The Beggar's Opera]]'' (with Cassidy)
*1959: ''[[Wish You Were Here (musical)|Wish You Were Here!]]'' (Dallas State Fair Theater, with Cassidy)
*1966: ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' ([[Westbury Music Fair]])
*1967: ''[[Wait Until Dark]]'' (with Cassidy)
*1968: ''[[Maggie Flynn]]'' (Broadway, with Cassidy)
*1972: ''The Marriage Band'' (with Cassidy)
*1974: ''[[On a Clear Day You Can See Forever]]''
*1976: ''[[Show Boat]]''
*1977: ''[[The Sound of Music]]''
*1982: ''[[Bitter Sweet (operetta)|Bitter Sweet]]''
*1994: ''[[Love Letters (play)|Love Letters]]'' (with [[Marty Ingels]])
*1994: ''[[The King and I]]''
*1994: ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''
*1995: ''[[Love Letters (play)|Love Letters]]'' (with Marty Ingels)
*2004: ''[[42nd Street (musical)|42nd Street]]'' (Broadway, with [[Patrick Cassidy (actor)|Patrick Cassidy]])
*2005: ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]''
*2012: ''[[The Music Man]]'' (Sacramento Music Circus, with Patrick Cassidy)
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==Discography==
===Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy albums===
* ''Speaking of Love'' (1957) ([[Columbia Records]])
* ''[[Brigadoon#Recordings|Brigadoon]]'' (1957) (Columbia Records)
* ''With Love from Hollywood'' (1958) (Columbia Records)
* ''Marriage Type Love'' (1959) ([[RCA Records]], unreleased)<ref name="broadwayworld.com">{{cite web| url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-CD-Reviews-Shirley-Jones-and-Jack-Cassidys-MARRIAGE-TYPE-LOVE-is-Sweet-Nostalgia-20140512| title=BWW CD Reviews: Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy's MARRIAGE TYPE LOVE is Sweet Nostalgia| first=David| last=Clarke| website=Broadway World |date=May 12, 2014 |access-date=March 27, 2020 }}</ref>
* ''[[Maggie Flynn#Production|Maggie Flynn]]'' (1968) (RCA Records)
* ''Show Tunes'' (1995) ([[Sony Music]])<ref name="ShowTunes1995">{{cite web| url=https://www.amazon.com/Show-Tunes-Shirley-Jones-Cassidy/dp/B000002YX0/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_1| title=Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy SHOW TUNES| publisher=Sony Music| website=amazon.com| date=1995| access-date=October 19, 2016}}</ref>
* ''Essential Masters'' (2011) (Master Classics Records)
* ''Marriage Type Love'' (2014) ([[Columbia Masterworks]])<ref name="broadwayworld.com"/>

===The Partridge Family albums===
* ''[[The Partridge Family Album]]'' (1970) ([[Bell Records]])
* ''[[Up To Date]]'' (1971) (Bell Records)
* ''[[Sound Magazine]]'' (1971) (Bell Records)
* ''[[A Partridge Family Christmas Card]]'' (1971) (Bell Records)
* ''[[Shopping Bag]]'' (1972) (Bell Records)
* ''[[At Home With Their Greatest Hits]]'' (1972) (Bell Records)
* ''[[The Partridge Family Notebook|Notebook]]'' (1972) (Bell Records)
* ''[[Crossword Puzzle]]'' (1973) (Bell Records)
* ''[[Bulletin Board (album)|Bulletin Board]]'' (1973) (Bell Records)
* ''[[The World of the Partridge Family]]'' (1974) (Bell Records)
* ''[[Greatest Hits (Partridge Family album)|Greatest Hits]]'' (1989) ([[Arista Records]])
* ''[[The Definitive Collection (Partridge Family album)|The Definitive Collection]]'' (2001) (Arista Records)
* ''[[Come On Get Happy!: The Very Best of The Partridge Family]]'' (2005) (Arista Records)

===The Partridge Family singles===
* "[[I Think I Love You]]" (1970) (Bell Records)
* "[[Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted]]" (1971) (Bell Records)
* "[[I'll Meet You Halfway]]" (1971) (Bell Records)
* "[[I Woke Up In Love This Morning]]" (1971) (Bell Records)
* "[[It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)]]" (1972) (Bell Records)
* "Am I Losing You" (1972) (Bell Records)
* "[[Breaking Up Is Hard to Do]]" (1972) (Bell Records)
* "[[Looking Through the Eyes of Love]]" (1972) (Bell Records)
* "Friend and a Lover" (1973) (Bell Records)
* "[[Walking in the Rain (The Ronettes song)|Walking in the Rain]]" (1973) Bell Records
* "Looking For a Good Time" (1973) (Bell Records)

===Shirley Jones albums===
* ''[[Silent Strength (album)|Silent Strength]]'' (1989) (Diadem Records)
* ''Shirley'' (1992) [[A & M Records]]
* ''Shirley Jones'' (2000) (Ingels Ent. Records)
* ''[[Then & Now (Shirley Jones album)|Then & Now]]'' (2008) ([[Stage Door Records]])
* ''[[A Touch of Christmas]]'' (2009) (Encore Music Presents Records)
* ''[[A Tribute to Richard Rodgers]]'' (2010) (Encore Music Presents Records)

===Shirley Jones singles===
* "Clover in the Meadow" b/w "Give me a Gentle Girl" (1957) ([[Dot Records]]) from ''April Love'' movie soundtrack
* "[[Pepe (song)|Pepe]]" b/w "Lovely Day" (1960) ([[Colpix Records]]) from ''Pepe'' movie soundtrack (This record hit the top 5 in Spain, 1961, on the Discophon label)
* "I've Still Got My Heart Joe" b/w "Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone" (1971) ([[Bell Records]] 119)
* "Ain't Love Easy" b/w "Roses in the Snow" (1972) (Bell Records 253)
* "Walk in Silence" b/w "The World is a Circle" (1973) (Bell Records 350)

===Soundtracks===
* ''[[Oklahoma! (soundtrack)|Oklahoma!]]'' (1955) ([[Capitol Records]]) (songs: "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top", "Many a New Day", "People Will Say We're in Love", "Out of My Dreams", "Oklahoma")
* ''[[Carousel (film)#Soundtrack album|Carousel]]'' (1956) (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'' (1957) (Dot Records) (songs: "Give Me A Gentle Girl", "April Love" with Pat Boone, "Do It Yourself" with Pat Boone, "The Bentonville Fair" with Pat Boone, "Finale" with Pat Boone)
* ''[[Never Steal Anything Small]]'' (1959) (song: "I Haven't Got a Thing to Wear")
* ''[[Pepe (1960 film)#Soundtrack album|Pepe]]'' (1960) Colpix Records (songs: "Pepe", "Lovely Day")
* ''[[The Music Man (1962 film)#Songs|The Music Man]]'' (1962) ([[Warner Bros. Records]]) (songs: "Piano Lesson / If You Don't Mind My Saying So", "Goodnight, My Someone", "Being in Love", "Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You", "Till There Was You")
* ''[[Endless Night (1972 film)|Endless Night]]'' (1972) (song: "Endless Night")
* ''[[Manna from Heaven (film)|Manna from Heaven]]'' (2002) (song: "Just the Way You Look Tonight")
* ''[[Christmas Is Here Again]]'' (2007) (songs: "Easy To Dream", "All Because of Me")
* ''[[Over the Garden Wall]]'' (2014) (song: "One Is a Bird")

===Album appearances===
* ''[[Free to Be... You and Me]]'' (1972) (Bell Records) (song: "Girl Land" with Jack Cassidy)
* ''The Christmas Album.....A Gift of Hope'' (1991) Children's Hospital Benefit Album (song: "[[Silver Bells]]" with [[Shaun Cassidy]])
* ''An Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein, The Sullivan Years'' (1993) [[TVT Records]]
* ''Embraceable You – Broadway In Love'' (1993) ([[Sony Music]])
* ''George & Ira Gershwin, A Musical Celebration'' (1994) ([[MCA Records]]) (song: "[[Someone to Watch over Me (song)|Someone to watch over Me]]")
* ''Lerner, Loewe, Lane & Friends'' (1998) [[Varèse Sarabande Records]] (song: "Before I Gaze at You Again")

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Shirley |last2=Ingels |first2=Marty |last3=Herskowitz |first3=Mickey |title=Shirley and Marty: An Unlikely Love Story |year=1990 |publisher=William Morrow and Company |location=New York City |isbn=978-0688084578 |url=https://archive.org/details/shirleymartyunli0000jone}}
* {{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Shirley |last2=Leigh |first2=Wendy |title=Shirley Jones: A Memoir |url=https://archive.org/details/shirleyjonesmemo0000jone |url-access=registration |year=2013 |publisher=Gallery Books |location=New York City |isbn=978-1476725956}}

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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929103145/http://www.moviehole.net/news/20050607_5738.html Shirley Jones interview]
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*[http://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/2015/09/03/shirley-jones-marty-ingels-remember/71607448/ Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels discuss their 9/11 memorial park, September, 2015]

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