Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in

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, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as ''

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'' (1955), ''

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'' (1956), and ''

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'' (1962). She won the

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for playing a vengeful

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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 ''

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'' (1970–1974), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.

Early life

Jones was born on March 31, 1934, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, to

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parents Marjorie (née Williams), and Paul Jones, owner of the Jones Brewing Company. Jones' paternal grandfather came from

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. She was named after child star

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. Jones says that many people have incorrectly assumed that her middle name was named after

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and film legend

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, but Jones was actually named after her aunt. Coincidentally, the first star Jones ever met was West, who was performing at the Twin Coaches supper club in Rostraver around 1954. The family later moved to the small nearby town of Smithton. Jones began singing at the age of six in the

Church choir and took voice lessons from Ralph Lewando. While attending South Huntingdon High School in Ruffs Dale, she participated in school plays. Jones won the Miss Pittsburgh contest in 1952.

Career

Early stage career

Her first audition was for an open bi-weekly casting call held by John Fearnley,

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for

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and their various musicals. At the time, Jones had never heard of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Fearnley was so impressed, he ran across the street to fetch

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, who was rehearsing with an orchestra for an upcoming musical. Rodgers then called Oscar Hammerstein at home. The two saw great potential in Jones. She became the first and only singer to be put under personal contract with the songwriters. They first cast her in a minor role in '' South Pacific''. For her second Broadway show, '' Me and Juliet'', she started as a chorus girl, and then an understudy for the lead role, earning rave reviews in

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Movie actress

Jones impressed Rodgers and Hammerstein with her musically trained voice, and was cast as the female lead in the film adaptation ''Oklahoma!'' in 1955. Other film musicals quickly followed, including ''

'' (1956), '' April Love'' (1957), and ''

'' (1962), in which she was often typecast as a wholesome, kind character. However, she won a 1960

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for her performance in '' Elmer Gantry'' portraying a woman corrupted by the title character played by

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. Her character becomes a prostitute who encounters her seducer years later and reveals his true character. The director,

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, had originally fought against her being in the movie, but after seeing her first scene, told her she would win an Oscar for her performance. She was reunited with

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(who had played her brother in ''The Music Man'') in '' The Courtship of Eddie's Father'' (1963). With an uncharacteristically brunette hairstyle, Jones played the role of a woman who falls in love with Tony Randall's lion-owning professor in '' Fluffy'' (1965). In her film career, she has worked with some of Hollywood's icons: Jimmy Stewart,

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, Henry Fonda,

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and director

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''The Partridge Family''

In 1970, after turning down the role of Carol Brady on ''

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'', a role that ultimately went to her best friend, Florence Henderson, Jones was the producers' first choice to audition for the lead role of Shirley Partridge in ''

'', an ABC musical sitcom based loosely on the real-life musical family

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. The series focused on a young widowed mother whose five children form a pop-rock group after the entire family painted its signature bus to travel. She was convinced that the combination of music and comedy would be a surefire hit. Jones realized, however, that: During its first season, it became a hit and was screened in over 70 countries. Within months, Jones and her co-stars were

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television icons. Her real-life 20-year-old stepson David Cassidy, who was an unknown actor at the time, played Shirley Partridge's eldest son Keith and became a

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. The show also spawned a number of albums and singles by The Partridge Family, performed by David Cassidy and Shirley Jones. That same year, " I Think I Love You" reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 music chart, making Jones the second person, after

, and the first woman to win an acting Oscar and also have a number-one hit on that chart, an achievement only matched by

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and

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. The Partridge Family won a NARM award for the best-selling single of the year in 1970 for their hit "I Think I Love You". In 1971, The Partridge Family was nominated for a

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under the Best New Artist category. The Partridge Family Shirley Jones 1972

The series' run ended in 1974. Shirley Jones's friendship with David Cassidy had begun in the mid-to-late 1950s, when David was just six, after he learned about his father's divorce from his mother Evelyn Ward. Upon David's first meeting with Shirley before co-starring with her on ''The Partridge Family'', he said, "The day he tells me that they're divorced, he tells me, 'We're remarried, and let me introduce you to my new wife.' He was thrilled when her first film, ''Oklahoma!'' (1955), had come out; and my dad took me to see it—I just see her, and I go, uh-oh, it doesn't really quite register with me, 'cause I'm in total shock, because I wanted to hate her, but the instant that I met her, I got the essence of her. She's a very warm, open, sweet, good human being. She couldn't have thawed it for me—the coldness and the ice—any more than she did." Shirley was shocked to hear her real-life stepson was going to audition for the role of Keith Partridge. David said, "At the auditions, they introduced me to the lead actress hirley Jones'cause they had no idea, they had no idea. So I said, 'What are you doing here?' She looked at me and said, 'What are you doing here?' And I said, 'Well, I'm reading for the lead guy.' I said, 'What are you doing here?' She said, 'I'm the mother!'" Cassidy discussed his relationship with his stepmother on the show: "She wasn't my mother, and I can be very open, and we can speak, and we became very close friends. She was a very good role model for me, watching the way, you know, she dealt with people on the set, and watching people revere her." Cassidy appeared on many shows alongside his stepmother, including '' A&E Biography'', '' TV Land Confidential'', and '' The Today Show'', and he was one of the presenters of his stepmother's '' Intimate Portrait'' on Lifetime Television, and the reality show pilot ''In Search of the Partridge Family'', where he served as co-executive producer. The rest of the cast also celebrated the 25th, 30th, and 35th anniversaries of ''The Partridge Family'' (although Cassidy was unavailable to attend the 25th anniversary in 1995 owing to other commitments). In addition, Jack Cassidy's death in 1976 drew Jones and Cassidy closer as Shirley's three children and stepson mourned their father.

''Shirley'' and other projects

In 1975, Jones starred in ''Winner Take All'' as a compulsive gambler who wrecks her marriage by stealing from her husband...and by eventually cheating on him with her bookie. In 1979, Jones tried her hand at television for the second time, starring in the NBC show '' Shirley'', which, like ''The Partridge Family'', featured a family headed by a widowed mother, but the show failed to win ratings and was cancelled toward the middle of the season. Jones also played the "older woman" girlfriend of Drew Carey's character in several episodes of ''

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'', and reprised Shirley Partridge in a cameo in a 2000 episode of ''

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.''

She was also in the dramatic project ''There Were Times, Dear'', in which she played a loyal wife whose husband is dying of

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; she was nominated for an Emmy Award for this work. In February 1986, Jones unveiled her star on the

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on Vine Street just around the corner from Hollywood Boulevard. In 1983, she appeared in a rare revival of

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's operetta, '' Bitter Sweet''. In 2004, she returned to Broadway in a revival of '' 42nd Street'', portraying diva Dorothy Brock opposite Patrick Cassidy, the first time a mother and son were known to star together on Broadway. In July 2005, Jones revisited the musical ''

'' onstage in Massachusetts, portraying "Cousin Nettie". In July 2006, Jones received another Emmy Award nomination for her supporting performance in the television film '' Hidden Places''. She was nominated for a

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award for the same film but lost to

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for ''

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''. She also appeared in '' Grandma's Boy'' (2006) as a nymphomaniac senior citizen. On November 16, 2007, she took the stage at the Ford Center in

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, during the Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular concert that celebrated the state's 100th birthday. Jones sang the songs "

" and " People Will Say We're In Love" from the musical ''Oklahoma!''. ShirleyAndPatrick

In early 2008, it was announced that Jones would play Colleen Brady on the long-running NBC soap opera ''

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''. Jones guest-starred on

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's short-lived show '' Ruby & The Rockits'' as David and Patrick's mother. In 2008, U.K. label Stage Door Records released the retrospective collection '' Then & Now'' featuring 24 songs from Jones's musical career, including songs from the films ''Oklahoma!'', ''Carousel'', and ''April Love''. The album featured new recordings of songs including "

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", "

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", and a sentimental tribute to ''The Music Man''. She had a recurring role as Burt Chance's mother in the Fox TV comedy series '' Raising Hope''. In mid-2012, Jones played Mrs. Paroo, when her son Patrick played Harold Hill, in a California Musical Theatre revival of ''The Music Man''. In 2014, Jones guest-starred on an episode of ''

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'' as Mrs. McClain.

Personal life

On August 5, 1956, Jones married actor and singer Jack Cassidy. They had three sons, Shaun, Patrick, and Ryan. David Cassidy was Jack's son from his first marriage to actress Evelyn Ward and became her stepson. Jones divorced Cassidy in 1975. On November 13, 1977, Jones married actor and comedian Marty Ingels. Jones and Ingels wrote an autobiography based on their relationship called ''Shirley & Marty: An Unlikely Love Story''. Despite what Ingels called having an “odd-couple relationship” and separations (she filed, then withdrew, a divorce petition in 2002), they remained married until Ingels' death on October 21, 2015, from a massive

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. After his death, Jones said: "He often drove me crazy, but there's not a day I won't miss him and love him to my core." On the evening of December 11, 1976, after Jones had refused an offer of reconciliation from Jack Cassidy, she received news that her ex-husband's penthouse apartment was on fire. Apparently, the fire started from his lit cigarette when he fell asleep on the couch; the following morning, firefighters found Cassidy's body inside the gutted apartment. Jack "wanted to come back (to me) right up to the day he died", Jones said in a 1983 newspaper interview. "And as I realized later, I wanted him. That's the terrible part. 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 was 20 years old when she met Cassidy, who was seven years her senior, and she refers to him as the most influential person in and the love of her life. Jones is a supporter of

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. Jones was devastated when Suzanne Crough died on April 27, 2015; Crough played one of her TV daughters on ''The Partridge Family''.

Filmography

Film

Television

*1950: '' Fireside Theatre'' (acting debut) *1952: '' Gruen Guild Playhouse'' *1956: '' Ford Star Jubilee'' *1956: ''

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'' *1957: ''

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'' *1957: ''

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'' (guest) *1957: '' The United States Steel Hour'' *1958: '' DuPont Show of the Month'' *1959: '' Make Room for Daddy'' (as herself) *1964: '' Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre'' *1969: '' Silent Night, Lonely Night'' *1969: ''The Carol Burnett Show'' *1969: '' The Name of the Game'' *1970–74: ''

'' *1971: ''Curiosity Shop'' (Episode: The Curiosity Shop Special) *1973: '' The Girls of Huntington House'' *1975: '' The Family Nobody Wanted'' *1975: '' The Lives of Jenny Dolan'' *1975: ''Winner Take All'' *1977: '' McMillan & Wife'' *1977: ''Yesterday's Child'' *1978: '' Evening in Byzantium'' *1978: ''Who'll Save Our Children?'' *1979: ''A Last Cry for Help'' *1979–80: '' Shirley'' *1980: ''The Children of An Lac'' *1981: ''Inmates: A Love Story'' *1982: '' The Adventures of Pollyanna'' *1983/87: ''

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'' *1983: ''

'' (pilot) *1983: ''

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'' *1985: ''There Were Times, Dear'' *1988/90: ''

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'' *1989: ''Charlie'' (unsold pilot) *1997: '' Dog's Best Friend'' *1998: '' Melrose Place'' *1998: ''

'' *1999: ''

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'' *2000: ''

'' (cameo) *2003: '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' *2006: '' Hidden Places'' *2006: '' Monarch Cove'' *2008: ''

'' *2009: '' Ruby & The Rockits'' *2011/14: '' Raising Hope'' (3 episodes) *2012: '' Good Luck Charlie'' (Episodes: " Welcome Home", "A Duncan Christmas") *2012: '' Victorious'' (Episode: " Car, Rain, and Fire") *2013: ''

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'' *2013: '' Hot in Cleveland'' *2014: ''

'' *2014: '' Over the Garden Wall'' (voice) *2016: ''

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'' (cameo as herself)

Stage

*1953: '' South Pacific'' (Broadway) *1954: '' Me and Juliet'' (Chicago) *1956: ''

'' (European tour with Jack Cassidy) *1957: '' The Beggar's Opera'' (with Cassidy) *1959: '' Wish You Were Here!'' (Dallas State Fair Theater, with Cassidy) *1966: ''

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'' ( Westbury Music Fair) *1967: '' Wait Until Dark'' (with Cassidy) *1968: '' Maggie Flynn'' (Broadway, with Cassidy) *1972: ''The Marriage Band'' (with Cassidy) *1974: '' On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'' *1976: ''

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'' *1977: ''

'' *1982: '' Bitter Sweet'' *1994: '' Love Letters'' (with Marty Ingels) *1994: '' The King and I'' *1994: ''

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'' *1995: '' Love Letters'' (with Marty Ingels) *2004: '' 42nd Street'' (Broadway, with Patrick Cassidy) *2005: ''

'' *2012: ''

'' (Sacramento Music Circus, with Patrick Cassidy)

Discography

Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy albums

* ''Speaking of Love'' (1957) (

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) * '' Brigadoon'' (1957) (Columbia Records) * ''With Love from Hollywood'' (1958) (Columbia Records) * ''Marriage Type Love'' (1959) (

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, unreleased) * '' Maggie Flynn'' (1968) (RCA Records) * ''Show Tunes'' (1995) (

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) * ''Essential Masters'' (2011) (Master Classics Records) * ''Marriage Type Love'' (2014) ( Columbia Masterworks)

The Partridge Family albums

* '' The Partridge Family Album'' (1970) (

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) * '' Up To Date'' (1971) (Bell Records) * '' Sound Magazine'' (1971) (Bell Records) * '' A Partridge Family Christmas Card'' (1971) (Bell Records) * ''

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'' (1972) (Bell Records) * '' At Home With Their Greatest Hits'' (1972) (Bell Records) * ''

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'' (1972) (Bell Records) * ''

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'' (1973) (Bell Records) * ''

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'' (1973) (Bell Records) * '' The World of the Partridge Family'' (1974) (Bell Records) * '' Greatest Hits'' (1989) (

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) * '' The Definitive Collection'' (2001) (Arista Records) * '' Come On Get Happy!: The Very Best of The Partridge Family'' (2005) (Arista Records)

The Partridge Family singles

* " I Think I Love You" (1970) (Bell Records) * " Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted" (1971) (Bell Records) * " I'll Meet You Halfway" (1971) (Bell Records) * " I Woke Up In Love This Morning" (1971) (Bell Records) * " It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)" (1972) (Bell Records) * "Am I Losing You" (1972) (Bell Records) * " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1972) (Bell Records) * " Looking Through the Eyes of Love" (1972) (Bell Records) * "Friend and a Lover" (1973) (Bell Records) * " Walking in the Rain" (1973) Bell Records * "Looking For a Good Time" (1973) (Bell Records)

Shirley Jones albums

* '' Silent Strength'' (1989) (Diadem Records) * ''Shirley'' (1992) A & M Records * ''Shirley Jones'' (2000) (Ingels Ent. Records) * '' Then & Now'' (2008) ( Stage Door Records) * '' A Touch of Christmas'' (2009) (Encore Music Presents Records) * '' A Tribute to Richard Rodgers'' (2010) (Encore Music Presents Records)

Shirley Jones singles

* "Clover in the Meadow" b/w "Give me a Gentle Girl" (1957) ( Dot Records) from ''April Love'' movie soundtrack * " Pepe" b/w "Lovely Day" (1960) ( Colpix Records) from ''Pepe'' movie soundtrack (This record hit the top 5 in Spain, 1961, on the Discophon label) * "I've Still Got My Heart Joe" b/w "Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone" (1971) (

119) * "Ain't Love Easy" b/w "Roses in the Snow" (1972) (Bell Records 253) * "Walk in Silence" b/w "The World is a Circle" (1973) (Bell Records 350)

Soundtracks

* ''

'' (1955) (

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) (songs: "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top", "Many a New Day", "People Will Say We're in Love", "Out of My Dreams", "Oklahoma") * ''

'' (1956) (Capitol Records) (songs: "You're A Queer One, Julie Jordan", "If I Loved You", "What's The Use Of Wond'rin", "You'll Never Walk Alone") * ''April Love'' (1957) (Dot Records) (songs: "Give Me A Gentle Girl", "April Love" with Pat Boone, "Do It Yourself" with Pat Boone, "The Bentonville Fair" with Pat Boone, "Finale" with Pat Boone) * '' Never Steal Anything Small'' (1959) (song: "I Haven't Got a Thing to Wear") * '' Pepe'' (1960) Colpix Records (songs: "Pepe", "Lovely Day") * ''

'' (1962) ( Warner Bros. Records) (songs: "Piano Lesson / If You Don't Mind My Saying So", "Goodnight, My Someone", "Being in Love", "Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You", "Till There Was You") * '' Endless Night'' (1972) (song: "Endless Night") * '' Manna from Heaven'' (2002) (song: "Just the Way You Look Tonight") * '' Christmas Is Here Again'' (2007) (songs: "Easy To Dream", "All Because of Me") * '' Over the Garden Wall'' (2014) (song: "One Is a Bird")

Album appearances

* '' Free to Be... You and Me'' (1972) (Bell Records) (song: "Girl Land" with Jack Cassidy) * ''The Christmas Album.....A Gift of Hope'' (1991) Children's Hospital Benefit Album (song: " Silver Bells" with

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) * ''An Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein, The Sullivan Years'' (1993) TVT Records * ''Embraceable You – Broadway In Love'' (1993) (

) * ''George & Ira Gershwin, A Musical Celebration'' (1994) (

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) (song: " Someone to watch over Me") * ''Lerner, Loewe, Lane & Friends'' (1998) Varèse Sarabande Records (song: "Before I Gaze at You Again")

References

External links

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Shirley Jones interview
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Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels discuss their 9/11 memorial park, September, 2015
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