Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress.In her six decades of show business, she has 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 vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960).She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–74), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.
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