

Tragedy strikes these star-crossed lovers, and their journey is not easy. 2021)Ĭarousel stars Gordon MacRae as Billy Bigelow, a smooth-talking carny man who falls in love with a millworker (Shirley Jones).

On November 21, 2017, David Cassidy died at the age of 67.

Much as I love Marty and have a wonderful relationship-I’d say this with Marty sitting here-I’m not sure if Jack were alive I’d be married to Marty.” Jones refers to Cassidy as the most influential person in and the love of her life. He “wanted to come back (to me) right up to the day he died”, Jones said in a 1983 newspaper interview. The fire started from his lit cigarette when he fell asleep on the couch the following morning, firefighters found his body inside the gutted apartment. Jones attended South Huntingdon High School in Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania where she participated in school plays.

She took voice lessons from Ralph Lewando. Jones began singing at the tender age of six in the Methodist Church choir. Jones stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches. She celebrates her birthday on March 31 every year and her birth sign is Aries. Jones is 87 years old as of 2021, she was born on 31 March 1934, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States. She performed the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974, which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy. Jones was the winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry in 1960. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956) as well as The Music Man (1962). Shirley Jones is an American actress and singer who was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the United States as Shirley Mae Jones.
