Shirley Jones

Shirley Jones

Nacimiento : 1934-03-31, Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA

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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley Jones , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Shirley Jones
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Frank and Ava
Self
Frank & Ava joins the wild ride of the tempestuous relationship between icons, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner showing their multi-year love affair and subsequent marriage. In 1949, a downcast Frank, his career on the wane because of a faltering voice, a failing marriage, and a tarnished off-screen reputation falls in love with rising star, Ava, by consensus, the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. While their love was incandescent, they were hapless as a couple; often pursued by reporters such as Hedda Hopper who played them off against each other in the tabloids; casting Frank as an adulterer and Ava as a home wrecker while Frank!s wife, Nancy Barbato, refused to grant him a divorce. Once married in 1951 the tabloids then paraded their sorted affairs whenever their careers separated them. (Often it was Ava who went off to Europe or Africa to make a movie, leaving Frank behind). In the meantime, Frank, career hanging by a thread, is desperately trying to land the acting job that he ...
Un beso irresistible
Ruth
Ellen Branford, una poderosa abogado, encuentra el amor, el propósito y la promesa de una vida más sencilla cuando emprende un viaje para satisfacer el deseo de su abuela de morir
Looking for Mabel Normand
Narrator
A documentary on the life and career of silent film star Mabel Normand.
On the Wing
Mrs. Ryburn
Four teenage misfits take on Big Oil, the U.S. Government, and one very slick Politician.
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
Broadway Diva
Two entertainers destined for the big time are mismatched in a casting office from two very different online contests. Tony, a stripper from New York, is cast in an Off-Broadway musical and needs to trade in his tear-away trunks for tap shoes and tights. Anthony, a naive musical theatre enthusiast from Montana, needs to decide if he can strip all the way down just to stay in town. Hilarity ensues as they realize that "to make it" they're gonna have to learn some new tricks.
Miracle at Gate 213
Rita Goodrich
It's Christmas Eve and an unexpected delay at the airport has left everyone stranded. Young Joy (Savannah Page Ray from NBC's Parenthood) is traveling on her own to visit family for the holidays, so a retired flight attendant at the airport (Shirley Jones) becomes her travel companion. As they wait with their fellow travelers, they soon learn that everyone can use a Christmas Miracle, especially a young man trying to escape his past, and they join together to help. Allow your spirit to be lifted and your heart to be warned as you watch each person receive their Miracle at Gate 213
Zombie Night
Nana
Unos zombis salen por la noche y dos familias tienen que sobrevivir hasta la mañana.
A Strange Brand of Happy
Mildred
An aimless bachelor loses his job and finds himself chasing the same girl (his new life coach) that his manipulative ex-boss is after as well. The boys are spurred on by a rag tag group of retirees in need of some action.
Fin de semana en familia
GG
Esta es una película que mezcla la comedia y el drama, y que protagoniza Emily, una adolescente a la cual no le falta de nada si hablamos en términos materiales, pero que tiene serias carencias afectivas. Sus carencias son culpa de sus padres, que están centrados en sus carreras sin hacer caso a sus hijos. Su madre es una ejecutiva de éxito, que lleva mucho dinero a casa, por lo que su padre se puede dedicar a pintar, aunque en realidad nunca haga nada más que vivir a costa de su mujer. Emily aguanta la situación, pero un día sus padres no acuden a la competición de salto en la que participa y Emily decide que ha llegado la hora de poner cartas en el asunto. Por eso, y junto a sus hermanos, elabora un plan para secuestrar a sus padres y hacer de su casa un hogar totalmente normal.
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: Una historia musical
Herself - Hostess
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History es el documental más completo hecho hasta ahora sobre las producciones musicales de Hollywood. Shirley Jones, ícono de la televisión y del cine, nos presenta esta celebración llena de canciones y bailes, comenzando por "El Cantor de Jazz" y continuando con "Chicago" y "Dreamgirls".
Otra vez es navidad
Victoria Claus (voice)
Un duende, un reno, un zorro y un oso polar (Brad Garrett) ayudan a una huérfana (Madison Davenport) a encontrar el costal de juguetes de Santa (Andy Griffith).
The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park
Charlotte
The Caucasian Doug (Steve Hedden) and the Afro-American Donnie (Andre Ware) simultaneously receive a letter with a surprising inheritance of lands. They travel and arrive in a trailer park that belonged to their unknown mother. Both losers and racists, they have difficulties to accept each other. But when a gore killer creature attacks them, they have to join forces to save their lives.
El rey del mando
Grace
A sus 35 años, Alex trabaja probando los nuevos juegos de la empresa Brainasium. Es el más veterano entre sus compañeros, pero también es el mejor. Cuando le echan de su apartamento por impago (su compañero se ha gastado el dinero del alquiler en los “masajes terapéuticos” de Madame Wu’s Filipino Palace), Alex intenta instalarse en casa de su “camello”, pero éste se ha comprado un “león guardián” y no puede alojarle. Finalmente no le quedará más remedio que instalarse en casa de su adorable y encantadora abuela y sus octogenarias amigas. A sus compañeros de curro les hace creer que vive con tres jovencitas que están buenísimas para que no descubran la “vergonzosa” verdad. Pero las “abuelitas” son de armas tomar, y acabarán metidas en todas las juergas de Alex, en las que se mezclan alcohol, karaoke, hierba, un hechicero vudú, un mono karateka, tías buenas a porrillo y gamberradas para todos los gustos.
Hidden Places
Aunt Batty
A drama about a young widow who finds a guardian angel in the form of a hobo who comes to her rural community looking for work.
Mi perro adoptivo
Ethel Jeffries
Ping es un chihuahua rescatado por Ethel (miope), que piensa que es un gato. Cuando un par de ladrones intentan entrar en la casa de Ethel para robar el dinero que creen hay guardado, solo Ping puede frustrar sus planes.
Manna from Heaven
Bunny
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in Buffalo, NY is mysteriously showered with 20 dollar bills. Theresa, a young girl who everyone thinks is a saint, doesn't have much trouble convincing her loose-knit "family" that the money is a gift from Heaven. Years later, Theresa, who has become a nun, has an epiphany that it is time to pay the money back, so she calls the eccentric group together to repay the "loan." The problem is, nobody wants to give back the money, nobody has the money, they don't know to whom it belongs, and most of them can't stand each other. Along the way, the characters learn about family, romance, reconciliation and redemption, and by working together they begin to realize their full potential.
Me parece que sé lo que gritásteis el último viernes 13
Nurse Kervorkian
Como ha demostrado la historia del cine de terror en todas las películas de miedo siempre hay un teléfono a punto de sonar… un asesino esperando… y la única clave para sobrevivir es… mantenerse alejado del asesino. ¡Incluso aunque sea un incompetente! Ahora, una sexy reportera y su equipo están investigando junto con un policía local los asesinatos de la pandilla “guay” del Instituto de Bulemia…
Frank Sinatra Memorial
Self
Frank Sinatra, the greatest entertainer of the 20th century, is remembered by some of the brightest stars in Hollywood in this television memorial which celebrates his life and mourns his passing. Exclusive flashback interviews with Sinatra, his friends and his family, reveal little known facts about his overwhelming generosity and the sensationalized image created by the press. * In-depth interviews with those who knew him best... Ed McMahon, Tommy Sands, Shecky Green, Phyllis McGuire, Quincy Jones, & Betty Garrett, among others. * See highlights from some of Sinatra’s last films and farewell perfomances.
Gideon
Elly Morton
Gideon Webb (Christopher Lambert) es un retrasado mental de comportamiento muy infantil. Fue criado en Carolina del Sur por una tía que, tras su segundo matrimonio, lo internó en un asilo de ancianos. De esa forma, este hombre extraordinariamente ingenuo e inocente ejercerá una influencia benéfica y casi providencial sobre un grupo de ancianos descreídos y angustiados. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dog's Best Friend
Ethel
Animals communicate with a boy while he's staying at his grandparents' farm and warn him about an impending foreclosure.
Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies
Host
TV Documentary about Rodgers & Hammerstein's Films - Host Shirley Jones
Cops n Roberts
Herself
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
Herself
An insider's account of Jack Warner, a founding father of the American film industry. This feature length documentary provides the rags to riches story of the man whose studio - Warner Bros - created many of Hollywood's most classic films. Includes extensive interviews with family members and friends, film clips, rare home movies and unique location footage.
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
There Were Times, Dear
Susanne Millard
Bob and Susanne Millard deal with the onset of Bob's Alzheimer's disease.
It's Ho-Ho Hope's Jolly Christmas Hour
Bob Hope's 1984 NBC Christmas Special.
El tanque
LaDonna
A Zack Carey, un experto militar y veterano de guerra, le asignan una última misión antes de su retirarda del servicio activo, pero su nuevo destino le creará problemas. Zack es un tipo muy peculiar que tiene un tanque de la de II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) que usa en los desfiles.
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
Self
A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests.
Inmates: A Love Story
E.F. Crown
Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a revision of his judgment. Meanwhile he has to adapt to a life in jail - which works out quite well, especially when he meets the self-conscious convicted thief Jane and falls in love. He starts to woo her. But then, while working in the prison's accounting department, he discovers that the prisoners' accounts are not properly kept. The director tries to keep him in her prison as long as possible.
The Children of An Lac
Betty Tisdale
Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
Más allá del Poseidón
Nurse Gina Rowe
Durante una travesía oceánica, el trasatlántico S.S. Poseidón se hunde. Además de al naufragio, las olas y la lucha por la supervivencia, los pasajeros tendrán que enfrentarse a una banda que pretende apoderarse del valioso cargamento del barco.
A Last Cry for Help
Joan Muir
Sharon appears to be a normal 17-year-old girl with good grades, many friends, and a wonderful personality - hardly someone you think would be considering suicide. But her home life is constrained by the pressures and expectations of her parents. She slowly spirals downward, her mother at one point telling her that she has no business being unhappy. So, she gulps down a bottle of sleeping pills. She is saved, but for how long?
Who'll Save Our Children?
Sarah Laver
A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable court battle.
Evening in Byzantium
Constance Dobson
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
Yesterday's Child
Laura Talbot
A young couple's three-year-old daughter is kidnapped and no trace is ever found of her. Fourteen years later, a young woman claiming to be that girl shows up at the parents' house.
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Jenny Dolan
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Winner Take All
Eleanor Anderson
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
The Family Nobody Wanted
Helen Doss
A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants, and soon they find themselves with a family of more than a dozen kids.
The Girls of Huntington House
Anne Baldwin
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Evelyn Harris
An accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him.
El club social de Cheyenne
Jenny
John, un vaquero de Texas, recibe tras la muerte de su hermano una insólita herencia: El club social de Cheyenne. Cuando John, al que acompaña su inseparable amigo Sullivan, otro desbravador de caballos, va a tomar posesión de la propiedad, se encuentra con que el club es la residencia de varias muchachas de vida alegre más famosa de toda la comarca.
Con los ojos cerrados
Flo Harrigan
Mary Wilson es una mujer que se refugia en los tranquilizantes y el alcohol para soportar las continuas infidelidades de su marido. Su marido Fred, un prestigioso abogado, prepara una fiesta con motivo de su decimosexto aniversario de boda. Durante la celebración se pondrá de manifiesto que el matrimonio de los Wilson es una farsa.
Silent Night, Lonely Night
Katherine Johnson
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a mental patient at the university, and she is there visiting her son, who is a student, after discovering her husband's infidelity.
El golfo
Cansada de la monotonía de su trabajo, Mary O'Hara, ejecutiva de una importante compañía estadounidense, viaja a Acapulco por unos días en busca de amor y aventuras. En la playa, sus esperanzas se desvanecen, pues solo conoce a playboys sin escrúpulos. Rechaza todas las ofertas que recibe hasta que conoce a Pancho el Golfo, un muchacho que se gana la vida como puede.
A la cumbre por las faldas
Marigold Marado
Mientras investiga un caso, un joven policía logra ascender a inspector gracias a los consejos de su entrometida madre.
Un león en mi cama
Janice Claridge
El científico Daniel Potter intenta demostrar que hasta un león salvaje puede transformarse en un obediente animal doméstico. Lástima que la gente salga huyendo empavorecida cuando le ven con su mascota. Potter y Fluffy se esconden en un hotel, pero la hija del propietario se encariñará del improbable dúo.
Dos seductores
Janet Walker
Benson es un Casanova que engaña a las mujeres para acostarse con ellas y abandonarlas después. Está muy contento con su juego hasta que conoce a Jamison, un auténtico caradura, que se hace pasar por un príncipe exiliado y que no solo hace que las mujeres compartan su cama, sino que también, le den dinero para ayudarlo a financiar su supuesta contrarrevolución.
La intriga
Karen Williams
Debajo de aquella maravillosa mansión un oscuro secreto se ocultaba. Nada parecía ser lo que realmente era. Paolo Barbelli, hombre fascinante, autoritario y ambiguo, convive con una joven, Cora. Sus ojos perdidos en la distancia la mantienen alejada de la realidad. Con ambos, Mónica hace las funciones de madrastra. Un triangulo perfecto que se verá roto cuando dos tasadores americanos llegan a la villa y las ocultas pasiones de sus habitantes salgan a la luz arrasando todo cuanto encuentran a su paso. Cuando la verdad se hace trágica, sólo la mentira puede apaciguar los temores, la ansiedad, el horror.
A Ticklish Affair
Amy Martin
A young widow Amy Martin with three young boys is investigated by the Navy after one of her children inadvertently sends out a distress signal in Morse code by the blinds on his upstairs bedroom window. Commander Weedon and crew observe the signal from their ship and investigates. He falls for the young mother and proposes marriage. However, she is reluctant to have her family live out of a suitcase and initially declines. Gramps tries to bring her on board to sail the sea of love with the commander.
El noviazgo del padre de Eddie
Elizabeth Marten
Eddie, un niño de seis años, está harto de que su padre siga viudo y sin compromiso. Decidido a solucionar el problema, prepara citas para su padre y supervisa la selección de la posible candidata.
Vivir de ilusión
Marian Paroo
Harold Hill, un farsante charlatán, se detiene en una pequeña ciudad y convence a sus habitantes para formar una banda de música infantil. Cuando consigue reunir el dinero necesario para sacar adelante el proyecto... se marcha sin dejar rastro. Buscando otro pueblo al que estafar, Hill llega a River City, en Iowa, donde intentará persuadir a sus habitantes de que la única forma de salvar a la juventud es organizando una banda de muchachos. Lo que no imagina Hill es que la profesora de música del pueblo, Marian Paroo, va a trastocar por completo sus planes.
Dos cabalgan juntos
Marty Purcell
Los familiares de los prisioneros blancos secuestrados por los comanches presionan al ejército federal para que los rescate. Al cínico comisario de Tascosa, Guthrie McCabe, lo convence el comandante Frazer para que se encargue de negociar con los indios la entrega de los cautivos. Le acompañará en su misión el teniente Gary.
Pepe
Suzie Murphy
Pepe, el mozo de cuadras de un rancho mexicano, está muy encariñado con uno de los caballos, pero su jefe se lo vende a un director de cine americano que piensa utilizarlo en su próxima película. Entonces Pepe decide buscar trabajo en Hollywood para estar cerca del caballo. Film con numerosos cameos de grandes estrellas como Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Jack Lemmon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis y Dean Martin, entre otros.
El fuego y la palabra
Lulu Bains
Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) es un hombre atractivo, oportunista y extremadamente inmoral. El día en el que asiste, por casualidad, a una reunión religiosa se da cuenta de lo fácil que es ganar dinero como predicador y se convierte a la religión Evangélica. Junto con la hermana Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), Elmer pronuncia unos estremecedores sermones que le permiten conseguir fama y dinero. Sin embargo, un periodista (Arthur Kennedy) sigue sus pasos para desenmascararlo. La situación se complica aún más cuando reaparece en su vida una antigua amiga (Shirley Jones), que hará que Gantry se tenga que enfrentar a su turbio pasado.
Bobbikins
Betty Barnaby
Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult.
Never Steal Anything Small
Linda Cabot
Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his union's presidency.
April Love
Liz Templeton
A teenager, recently in trouble with the police, is sent to live with his aunt and uncle on their Kentucky farm in order to rediscover life's values.
Carrusel
Julie Jordan
Adaptación de un éxito de Broadway de Richard Rodgers y Oscar Hammerstein bajo la dirección de Rouben Mamoulian.
Oklahoma
Laurey Williams
Curly, un apuesto vaquero, está enamorado de Laurey, una tímida granjera, pero ambos son demasiado orgullosos y les cuesta admitir sus sentimientos. La llegada de un forastero desencadenará entre los dos hombres una guerra sin cuartel para conquistar a la chica.
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
Host
The 1920s was a time of great change in Hollywood. This program tells the story of the advent of sound technology for movies and the emergence of talkies and musicals in Hollywood. While audiences cried out for more, the movie industry struggled to adapt to the strange new technology. The result was an explosion of movie musicals by the end of the decade.