Shirley Jones Doesn't Mind that "The Partridge Family" Ruined her Career (VIDEO)
7/25/2013


"The Partridge Family" ruined Shirley Jones' career, but she's not complaining.

A film veteran with roles in hits such as Oklahoma! and The Music Man, Jones said she was warned about taking on a TV role in the 1970s family series.

"Everybody told me don't do a television series because if you are that character you'll be the character for the rest of your life and your movie career will be in the toilet," Jones told Katie Couric on "Katie". "They were right!"



Jones is currently promoting her memoir and said she was happy to have played Shirley Partridge on "The Partridge Family" because it allowed her to spend more time with her kids.

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It is a joke. Most women who are over 35 have their movie careers dry up anyway. She doesn't have the range that Shirley MacLaine has. I wish she would just admit the fact that the movies quit her. She didn't quit the movies.

Shirley Jones is a talented beautiful lady and she was great in the Partridge Family. I've seen her on other TV shows from time to time. IMHO she's a fine actress; look at the great job she did with Lulu in Elmer Gantry. You can give me Shirley in anything anytime! Shirley Jones = Surely talented!

I think that a big reason for Shirley's decline was that Hollywood stopped making (or slowed down the production) of the wholesome/sweet/musicial movies she excelled at. She may have been able to stay in films longer if she would have taken smaller character roles, but maybe she prefers being the lead.

Anyway, she's awesome!

Her career seems to be on the rebound playing characters opposite of her Partridge character. She's great.

I don't think she is on the rebound at all. After the Partridge Family she went back to live performing. Now her voice is shot. She is hoarse and coughs a lot. It is embarrassing that she still want to sing. It is like someone should tell her. Now she is putting out some bad written book that is obviously made to make a cheap buck. It is like how low can you go.

I don't think she is on the rebound at all. After the Partridge Family she went back to live performing. Now her voice is shot. She is hoarse and coughs a lot. It is embarrassing that she still want to sing. It is like someone should tell her. Now she is putting out some bad written book that is obviously made to make a cheap buck. It is like how low can you go.
She is still beautiful and I hope she goes on and never stops.

She is still beautiful and I hope she goes on and never stops.
I think Shirley is mainly working because she has money problems. Lets face it. Marty Ingels probably spends all her money because he never had any reliable talent. At least Jack had his own career and yes he had the type of talent that would have always kept him busy.
I would like to see her do quality stuff. I am glad her son Patrick finds ways to keep her involved in the theater and fund raising.

If Shirley had not have married Jack Cassidy after Carousel I doubt whether we would have heard from her again.

I just don't think that after the Partridge Family that Shirley had the type of talent other sitcom stars have had like John Travolta and Alan Alda had.

She had a pretty successful movie career BEFORE The Partridge Family not to mention winning an Oscar. I would hardly say her movie career was "ruined", If anything it was over by 1970.

I have to admit, I already put a hold on her new book at my library. I couldn't help it!! :eek: :lol:

I don't think she is on the rebound at all. After the Partridge Family she went back to live performing. Now her voice is shot. She is hoarse and coughs a lot. It is embarrassing that she still want to sing. It is like someone should tell her. Now she is putting out some bad written book that is obviously made to make a cheap buck. It is like how low can you go.


You obviously have the same completely negative and biased attitude toward Jones as you do toward David Cassidy. Did they do something to you personally to make you so bitter towards them?

How would you know that she "coughs a lot"?? How do you know the book is "bad written"? For someone who doesn't like her, you sure seem to follow her closely...

She had a pretty successful movie career BEFORE The Partridge Family not to mention winning an Oscar. I would hardly say her movie career was "ruined", If anything it was over by 1970.
Shirley won an Oscar for playing against type for Elmer Gantry. If they would have gotten Piper Laurie to play the part like they wanted to Piper could have played that part with one hand behide her back. With the exception of Courtship of Eddie's Father' which by no means was a challenging role, the other movies were forgettable. Shirley's movie career was going south anyway as they do for most women over a certain age. Shirley just smacks of arrogance when she says the Partridge Family ruined her movie career and she did it for the paycheck. David acts the same way. Danny Bonaduce is the only one who is thankful to the show.

You obviously have the same completely negative and biased attitude toward Jones as you do toward David Cassidy. Did they do something to you personally to make you so bitter towards them?

How would you know that she "coughs a lot"?? How do you know the book is "bad written"? For someone who doesn't like her, you sure seem to follow her closely...

Guess they're not going to answer you:lol:

Guess they're not going to answer you:lol:
I guess people here are not reading the other comments online. Sorry I am hard on people. I am seeing reviews on AMAZON that said this book was a complete waste of time and money. There are a few fans of hers that would give anything she does a 5 star.

http://www.amazon.com/Shirley-Jones-A-Memoir/dp/1476725950/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375191864&sr=8-1&keywords=shirley+jones

I have to admit, I already put a hold on her new book at my library. I couldn't help it!! :eek: :lol:

I just got it from the library yesterday. I can't believe I got it so fast. :wave:

Shirley is on the outs with a lot of her friends,fans and family. Shirley went on Access Hollywood and she started blabbing about David Cassidy's problems and how he is on the verge of divorce. First if all I know she is trying to see a book but shouldn't this announcement come from David or his wife. So for those of you who want to go after David, now is your chance.!

Here is another person who is mad at Shirley, Joan Collins.
http://www.tmz.com/2013/08/01/joan-collins-shirley-jones-porn-swinger-foursome-book-cease-and-desist/

Shirley will always be an Oscar-winning movie star to me like Fred MacMurray and Brian Keith (both popular film stars who did TV too)

I kind of get annoyed of Shirley Jones saying she was too good for the show. Shirley Booth was more acclaimed than Jones. Booth won a Tony and an Oscar. Booth even said she never got bored with Hazel. I think Jones makes herself look silly by saying the Partridge Family ruined her career.

I kind of get annoyed of Shirley Jones saying she was too good for the show. Shirley Booth was more acclaimed than Jones. Booth won a Tony and an Oscar. Booth even said she never got bored with Hazel. I think Jones makes herself look silly by saying the Partridge Family ruined her career.
If you dislike Shirley Jones and David Cassidy so much, why do you post on the Partridge Family Board?

I think Shirley was good in her younger roles but to say she would have continued her career as a star in movies is a stretch. If you are saying why I am critical you have to look at the reviews for her book on Amazon. Most were fans of hers and where turned off because it was a smut book done mostly to turn a quick buck. Does anyone really want to hear Shirley describes how she masturbates.

Shirley Jones did the Partridge Family because she owned a percentage of the show, and the bulk of her wealth is from the show's syndication. So, she has little (if anything) to complain about.

David also owned a % of the show and he complains all the time because he thinks it held him back. I don't know how they think about complaining but they do. The only one who doesn't complain is Danny.

I think Shirley is mainly working because she has money problems. Lets face it. Marty Ingels probably spends all her money because he never had any reliable talent. At least Jack had his own career and yes he had the type of talent that would have always kept him busy.
I would like to see her do quality stuff. I am glad her son Patrick finds ways to keep her involved in the theater and fund raising.

If Shirley had not have married Jack Cassidy after Carousel I doubt whether we would have heard from her again.

I just don't think that after the Partridge Family that Shirley had the type of talent other sitcom stars have had like John Travolta and Alan Alda had.

That's like saying, "After 'The Munsters' Butch Patrick did not have the talent that other sitcom stars have had like Ron Howard ."

It is an odd comparison and an odd way to put two and two together and you are mis-matching cause and effect.
John Travolta was very much typecast in his role as Vinnie (I would not know how to spell the character's last name). He had lots of fans of his character just like David Cassidy had fans of the "Keith Partridge" character and Travolta was typecast in roles that emphasized his star status as a young guy who young females are attracted to, not much more. He played in Grease with Olivia Newton John and that should have been a career killer (regarding serious roles) as well as his role in Welcome Back Kotter. I think his role in "Carrie" was also panned by critics and he was seen as a heartthrob who is only given roles so that the movie would be big at the box office with young females. But he somehow managed to become a respected actor and essentially break away from his Welcome Back Kotter origins.

Alan Alda is an anomaly. He did more serious acting or show-biz things before his Hawkeye character but also MASH was not some "teenage- themed" and "teenage aimed" show like Welcome Back Kotter and The Partridge Family.
I think that Shirley Booth was also an anomaly. She notably played "Hazel" but it was in a TV show before the 1970s and again, it did not particularly attract a teen audience which in the 70s seemed to be a driving force as to what TV shows would become popular.

Shirley Jones had a lot of talent as singer, and actress of stage and screen, but just like probably the majority of stars who were typecast, or who only went on to become remembered for playing one TV character (for example Sally Struthers as "Gloria," Jim Neighbors as "Gomer Pyle," or Fred Gwynne as "Herman Munster" or (possibly biggest of all) Bob Denver as "Gilligan") Ms Jones was not able to find the right opportunity. I think she was just like any other actor who wanted to do other roles and not be associated with her most prominent TV character, but it just did not happen.
Lack of talent is probably not the issue. It could be that no movie-producer or director ( or whomever) just does not want to take on a person who was in such a popular TV show with very unforgettable characters.

Shirley Jones is in her 80s (as far as I know). She may not be able to perform or sing as she used to but that too is not about "losing talent" but the effects that age has on the voice, and body.

I don't know Ms Jones as a person, but strictly what I have seen of her in "Partridge Family reunion" shows on TV or interviews and such, she seems to have class and is gentle toned.
I would not know if her tell-all book is intended to be malicious. I would initially not think so . Any book written by a person is show-business would be to make some money. Jerry Lewis wrote a book about his business and personal relationship with Dean Martin. Maureen McCormack wrote a tell-all too.

I have read about and heard (via TV or radio) a few things that Shirley Jones has said. She did seem to say that playing Shirley Partridge did make it hard to be thought of in any other role, and yet she does not seem bitter or resentful, just matter-of-fact about it.

It's spelled Barbarino.