Shirley Jones (Actor)

Reviews of Shirley Jones Movies

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Movies starring Shirley Jones have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.

Silent Night, Lonely Night - released in 1969 - is Shirley Jones's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 1 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Shirley Jones is Beyond the Poseidon Adventure - released in 1979 - with a score of 35% based on 56 reviews.

Actor Biography

Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. In her six decades of television, she starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known 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 prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She is probably best known as Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children in the situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–1974), co-starring her real-life stepson David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.

Shirley Jones has acted in films with Clint Howard, Ron Howard, Cloris Leachman and Wendie Malick.

Shirley Jones has worked with these film directors: Richard Brooks, George Sidney, Gene Kelly and Vincente Minnelli.