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Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934 in
Charleroi, Pennsylvania of Welsh descent) is a
singer and actress, perhaps best known for her
starring role as "Shirley Partridge", the widowed
mother of 5 children, in the television series The
Partridge Family, in which, ironically she played
the mother of David Cassidy, who was her real-life
stepson. 

An only child, she was named after Shirley Temple.
She won a beauty pageant in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania as a teenager.

Before The Partridge Family, Shirley had already
achieved fame as a singer and actress.  She
starred in many films, including the highly
successful musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel
(musical)|Carousel, and The Music Man. In a rare
"naughty girl" role, she won an Academy Award as a
prostitute corrupted by Burt Lancaster, who then
takes revenge upon him in Elmer Gantry.

She married actor Jack Cassidy on August 5, 1956,
with whom she had 3 sons, Shaun Cassidy|Shaun,
Patrick and Ryan; David Cassidy became her
stepson. Shirley and David both starred in The
Partridge Family. Divorcing Cassidy, she married
one-time comic Marty Ingels on November 13, 1977.
Despite several separations (she filed then
withdrew a divorce petition in 2002) and amazingly
different personalities, they remain married.

In 2004, Shirley returned to Broadway, portraying
diva "Dorothy Brock" (played by Bebe Daniels in
the 1933 movie) in a revival of 42nd Street,
opposite her son, Patrick Cassidy, the first known
time a mother and son starred together on
Broadway.

Although best known for her movie and television
roles, Shirley has an impressive stage résumé,
including the musical Maggie Flynn on Broadway and
a stellar turn in a rare revival of Noel Coward's
operetta Bitter Sweet at the Long Beach Civic
Light Opera in 1983. The summer of 2005 sees her
revisiting the musical Carousel onstage in
Massachusetts portraying Cousin Nettie.

She is a registered United States Republican
Party|Republican who appeared at the 1988
Republican Convention and sang the National
Anthem. She also sang at the 2003 Christmas Tree
Lighting in Washington, D.C., at George W. Bush's
request.

==Filmography==
*Oklahoma! (1955)
*Carousel (1956)
*April Love (1957)
*Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
*Bobbikins (1960)
*Elmer Gantry (1960)
*Pepe (1960)
*Two Rode Together (1961)
*The Music Man (1962)
*The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
*A Ticklish Affair (1963)
*Dark Purpose (1964)
*Bedtime Story (1964)
*Fluffy (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)
*Cops n Roberts (1995) (Cameo)
*This Is My Father (1998) (documentary)
*Gideon (1999)
*The Adventures of Cinderella's Daughter (2000)
*Ping! (2000)
*Manna from Heaven (film) (2002)
*The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park
(2004)
*Raising Genius (2004) 
*Nana's Boy (2006) (currently filming)

==TV work==
*Out of the Blue (1968)
*Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969)
*The Partridge Family (1970-1974)
*But I Don't Want to Get Married! (1970)
*The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
*The Family Nobody Wanted (1975)
*Winner Take All (1975)
*The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975)
*Yesterday's Child (1977)
*Evening in Byzantium (1978)
*Who'll Save Our Children? (1978)
*A Last Cry for Help (1979)
*Shirley (1979-1980)
*The Children of An Lac (1980)
*Inmates: A Love Story (1981)
*The Adventures of Pollyanna (1982)
*There Were Times, Dear (1987)
*Charlie (1989)
*Deadly Games (1995)
*Dog's Best Friend (1997)
*Melrose Place (cast member in 1998)


==External links==

* http://www.shirleyjones.com
*imdb name|id=0429250|name=Shirley Jones
*nndb name|id=795/000023726|name=Shirley Jones