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***CELEBRATING A BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS ~ SINGER ~ ENTERTAINER & LADY*** Myspace Scrolling Text CreatorWelcome to an unofficial site for a legendary lady: Miss Shirley Jones. More will be filled in later. Please feel free to leave your comments!Check out this Swinging Link filled with interesting Shirley info.
http://home.earthlink.net/~nuttbait/shirley_jones.htmShirley
Jones
AKA Shirley Mae JonesBorn: 31-Mar-1934
Birthplace: Charleroi, PAGender: Female
Religion: Methodist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: ActorNationality: United States
Executive summary: Mom of The Partridge FamilyShirley Jones was raised in Pennsylvania, where her parents ran the Jones Brewery, founded by her grandfather (the brewery still produces Stoney's Beer). Named after Shirley Temple, Jones was in the church choir at the age of six, and began taking piano lessons shortly after that. Her piano teacher recognized her musical talents, urged the girl to take music seriously, and recommended that her parents get her professional singing lessons. Jones appeared in school plays, and won the Miss Pittsburgh beauty pageant the same year she finished high school, 1952. When she decided to move to New York, her parents gave her $160 for the trip. She promised to return when the money ran low, but it never did. She auditioned as a replacement chorus girl for the original Broadway run of South Pacific, but the voice lessons paid off when she sang, and she was immediately cast in a more substantial part.On stage, she starred in Show Boat, The Sound of Music, and The King and I, among many other roles. On film, she starred in the musicals Oklahoma! and Carousel, both with Gordon MacRae, and The Music Man with Robert Preston. She won an Oscar in 1960, playing a prostitute in Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster. She met actor Jack Cassidy in a 1950s stage production of Oklahoma!, and they soon married. He became familiar to America as a perennial TV "guest star," and in the early 1970s his son David co-starred with Jones in The Partridge Family. The success of that sitcom is said to have driven Jack to drink, and Jones divorced him in the mid-1970s.The Partridge Family was inspired by the success of The Cowsills, a real-life family that made squeaky-clean "safe" rock'n'roll. Jones and her stepson David, playing heartthrob Keith Partridge, actually sang on the Partridge Family's songs, but everything else about the group's music was manufactured by the Wrecking Crew, a group of Los Angeles session musicians that performed The Monkees' early hits. David Cassidy, only sixteen years younger than Jones, has admitted to a longtime crush on his stepmother: "I always wanted to take that walk down Dad's Memory Lane."In 1977, Jones married comedian Marty Ingels, and despite several brief separations they remain married today. They sued National Enquirer over their false headline, "Husband's bizarre behavior driving Shirley Jones to drink". The case took eight years to reach a conclusion, and actually went to the U.S. Supreme Court, but Jones eventually received an apology and an undisclosed payment from the tabloid.Her 1964 comedy Bedtime Story with Marlon Brando and David Niven was remade in 1988, as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin, Michael Caine, and Glenne Headly in Jones' role. In Grandma's Boy with Adam Sandler, Jones plays a foul-mouthed, pot-smoking old dame who reminisces about performing an unusual sex act with Charlie Chaplin. A longtime outspoken Republican, she sang the national anthem at the GOP's 1988 Convention.Father: Paul Jones (brewer)
Mother: Marjorie Williams (homemaker)
Husband: Jack Cassidy (actor, m. 5-Aug-1956, div. 1974, d. 1976, three children)
Son: David Cassidy (actor, b. 12-Apr-1950, stepson from Jack Cassidy's first marriage)
Son: Shaun Cassidy (actor, b. 27-Sep-1958)
Son: Patrick Cassidy (actor, b. 4-Jan-1962)
Son: Ryan Cassidy (set decorator, b. 23-Feb-1966)
Husband: Marty Ingels (comedian, m. 13-Nov-1977)High School: South Huntingdon High School, Ruffs Dale, PA (1952)Beauty Contest Miss Pittsburgh (1952)
Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 1961 for Elmer Gantry
Hollywood Walk of Fame 1986 at 1541 Vine St.TELEVISION
The Partridge Family Shirley Partridge (1970-74)
Shirley Shirley Miller (1979-80)FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Grandma's Boy (6-Jan-2006)
Manna From Heaven (17-Jan-2003)
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (17-Oct-2000)
Gideon (10-Oct-1999)
Tank (16-Mar-1984)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (18-May-1979)
The Cheyenne Social Club (12-Jun-1970)
The Happy Ending (21-Dec-1969)
Fluffy (27-Jun-1965)
Bedtime Story (10-Jun-1964)
A Ticklish Affair (18-Aug-1963)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (6-Mar-1963)
The Music Man (19-Jun-1962)
Two Rode Together (26-Jul-1961)
Pepe (21-Dec-1960)
Elmer Gantry (7-Jul-1960)
April Love (27-Nov-1957)
Carousel (16-Feb-1956)
Oklahoma! (11-Oct-1955)Official Website:
http://www.shirleyjones.com/Shirley Jones chartShirley Jones Born
Mar.31,1934
time unknown
Smithton, PA, USA
79W44 40N09
Noon Positions EST
Sun in Aries 10?17'
Moon in Libra 18?23'
Mercury in Pisces 12?35'
Venus in Aquarius 25?04'
Mars in Aries 13?23'
Jupiter in Libra 19?20'R
Saturn in Aquarius 24?34'
Uranus in Aries 26?24'
Neptune in Virgo 10?14'R
Pluto in Cancer 22?32'R
Eris in Aries 2?48'starred as the mother of the
popular teen musical series The
Partridge Family(1970-1974)-------------------------------------------
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LR vote: air or fire rising
Moon conjunct Jupiter in Libra make Shirley Jones very attractive and pleasant to be with. She is an ideal host. Sun conjunct Mars, and Uranus in Aries give this pleasant lady a lot of punch. Her true inner nature is active, aggressive, and energetic. Push her too hard and she'll sock you one! Mercury in Pisces is her weak spot. She can be shy and confused at times, as well as sensitive and sympathetic, and she has a natural interest in all things mysterious. Venus in Aquarius makes her a great friend and gives her an interest or appreciation of all that is avant garde or scientific. Saturn also in Aquarius reinforces her scientific bent and ingenuity which she uses as a means of survival. It also makes her highly independant and somewhat quirky. Neptune in Virgo is her and her generation's compulsion with work and hygeine, and Pluto is her and her generation's compulsion to settle down and have a family life.
