Biography of shirley jones
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Shirley Mae Jones was born in the small town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the only child of Paul and Marjorie Jones on March 31, At the age of three, the Jones family moved a few miles away to Smithton, another small town of less than along the Allegheny River where her grandfather, William B. Jones, owned both the Jones Brewery and the Jones Hotel. Her talents as a singer manifested themselves early, as Shirley became the youngest member of her town's Methodist choir at the age of six. During the summer, Jones went to a camp on Lake Erie where she eagerly participated in the camp's musical productions. It was there, at age 11, that a camp counselor recognized Jones's potential for success and urged her parents to sign her up for piano and voice lessons. bygd the next year, her father was driving her to Pittsburgh twice a week to study voice under the music critic for the Pittsburgh Press, Ralph Lewando.
In , Jones graduated from South Huntingdon High. That same year, she was spotte
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Shirley Jones
Shirley Jones ONE
A Beautiful Morning
Although I was named Shirley after the saccharine child star Shirley Temple, I’ve always been far more full of spice than of sugar.
As a baby, instead of cooing away softly and then serenely sleeping all day in my crib, I screamed and screamed at the top of my voice until I got attention. My favorite pastime was chewing on my crib because inom seemed to like the taste of varnish so much. inom chewed so hard, and with such great determination, that chew marks were left all over the wooden rails of my crib.
I was sturdy, adventurous, and unafraid. When I was kvartet years old, and playing in the family-owned Jones brewery, my grandfather promised me jelly beans if I drank some beer. I jumped at the opportunity, tried the beer, and hated it.
But I loved the brewery, and everything about it, primarily because it was my haven, my second home. My father, Paul Jones, and his brothers ran the Smithton, Pennsylvania, brewery, and from the ti
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Shirley Jones
American actress and singer (born )
For other uses, see Shirley Jones (disambiguation).
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, ) 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! (), Carousel (), and The Music Man (). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (–), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.
Early life
[edit]Jones was born on March 31, ,[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] She was named after chil