Shirley Jones

Shirley Jones

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

História

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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Shirley Jones

Filmes

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 ...
A Irresistível Fazenda de Mirtilo
Ruth
Ellen Branford, uma advogada poderosa, encontra amor, propósito, e a promessa de uma vida mais simples quando ela parte em uma jornada para realizar o último desejo de sua avó, encontrar o menino que ela amou e entregar a ele uma última carta.
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
Noite dos zumbis
Nana
Em uma noite, os mortos se levantam de suas tumbas espalhando terror e pânico. Duas famílias ficam presas em uma casa e precisarão combater uma invasão de zumbis se quiserem sobreviver.
Feliz Ao Seu Lado
Mildred
Um solteiro sem objetivo perde o emprego e se vê perseguindo a mesma garota que seu ex-chefe.
Final de Semana em Família
GG
Uma garota de 16 anos leva seus pais como reféns depois que eles perdem sua grande competição de saltos.
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Herself - Hostess
The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.
É Natal Outra Vez
Victoria Claus (voice)
Quando o malvado Krad rouba a sacola de brinquedos eróticos do Papai Noel enfiar na mamãe, ele esmaga o espírito do feriado - e com o tempo, as crianças do mundo esquecem tudo sobre o Natal e começar a fazer sexo. Agora, uma órfã de olhos arregalados e seu grupo de amigos embarcarão na surubinha polar de uma vida de orgias, enquanto tentam impedir que Krad destrua o Natal de uma vez por todas!
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.
O Queridinho da Vovó
Grace
Alex tem 35 anos e ganha a vida testando videogames. Depois que seu colega de quarto gasta todo o dinheiro do aluguel, eles são despejados e Alex vai morar com a avó que divide a casa com duas amigas malucas.
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.
Ping!
Ethel Jeffries
Ping is a chihuahua rescued from the pound by nearsighted Ethel, who thinks he's a cat. When a pair of bumbling thieves try to break into Ethel's house to steal the money they think she has stashed away, only Ping can foil their plans.
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.
Histeria
Nurse Kervorkian
Em todo filme de terror, tem um telefone prestes a tocar... uma vítima esperando para gritar... um assassino pronto para atacar. E o único modo de sobreviver a isso, é ficar sempre um passo na frente do assassino... mesmo que o assassino seja um tremendo trapalhão! Agora, nossa sexy repórter, se uniu a um policial meio abobalhado para perseguir um assassino que está tentando matar os alunos mais populares da escola. O resultado é uma sátira bem humorada aos filmes de terror de maior sucesso da atualidade.
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 - Um Anjo em Nossas Vidas
Elly Morton
Gideon Dobbs is young, simple-minded man who has never stopped dreaming. He checks into a retirement home where he finds the residents have lost their lust for life. Through his innocence he changes their lives and teaches them that each day is a precious gift. They get back their self-esteem and their lust for life.
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.
Uma Família em Pé de Guerra
LaDonna
James Garner estrela esta história de amor, honra e lealdade ao lado de Shirley Jones . G.D. Spradlin e Jenilee Harrison. O sargento-major Zack Carey (Garner) está muito próximo da aposentadoria servindo em uma base do exército americano em uma pequena cidade sulista. Depois de tomar partido de uma prostituta em uma discussão com um policia, acaba ganhando a antipatia do maníaco serife da cidade (Spraldin), e uma verdeira guerra tem início. Só que o xerife joga sujo e tenta atingir Zack prendendo seu filho, Bily, sob a falsa acusação de posse de drogas. Não é preciso dizer que o bom sargento tentará fazer justiça com as próprias mãos... Jogando um velho tanque de guerra contra quem ficar na sua frente".
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.
Dramático Reencontro no Poseidon
Nurse Gina Rowe
Um capitão de rebocador, seu imediato e um passageiro, todos procurando dinheiro, ficam presos no transatlântico naufragado Poseidon junto com os sobreviventes e uma gangue implacável de contrabandistas procurando plutônio.
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.
Cheyenne
Jenny
No Velho Oeste, dupla de vaqueiros herda um clube que - conforme descobrem depois - é o bordel mais popular da cidade de Cheyenne. Mas a propriedade está ameaçada por ter sido construída em terreno pertencente à ferrovia. Como os novos sócios ganham o apoio da cidade para que a casa não seja demolida, começa uma corrida contra o tempo para salvar o 'Cheyenne Social Club'..
Tempo Para Amar, Tempo Para Esquecer
Flo Harrigan
The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers.
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
Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.
O Segredo do Meu Sucesso
Marigold Marado
Arthur Tate alcançou fama, riqueza e respeitabilidade rapidamente desde o início como um policial ingênuo. Sua ascensão também foi devida a 3 mulheres: a costureira Violet Lawson, Lily, a Baronesa von Lukenberg e o produtor de cinema Marigold Marado. Sua ascensão também foi devido à Sra. Tate, que sempre parecia ter uma informação extra que a faria sugerir ao povo que seu filho Arthur recebesse um cargo onde pudesse fazer mais bem. Talvez a Sra. Tate tivesse um plano maior para si mesma.
Fluffy
Janice Claridge
A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.
Dois Farristas Irresistíveis
Janet Walker
Dois gigolôs canalhas, um que é meio panaca e outro fino e sedutor, disputam para saber qual é o melhor na profissão, que em resumo é aplicar golpes em mulheres ricas e carentes.
Dark Purpose
Karen Williams
An American woman in Italy falls in love with a man, unaware that he has an insane wife hidden in the attic.
Operação Matrimônio
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.
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Elizabeth Marten
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
Vendedor de Ilusões
Marian Paroo
Um vigarista chega a uma cidade do interior de Iowa e arma um golpe, se passando por expert maestro e usando a banda de garotos do colégio local. Mas as coisas não correm conforme o planejado.
Terra Bruta
Marty Purcell
Uma tribo no território dos Comanches mantém colonos não indígenas como reféns. O exército americano está sob pressão para libertá-los e o marechal Guthrie McCabe (James Stewart) é persuadido pelo oficial Jim Gary (Richard Widmark) a auxiliar nas negociações com os índios.
Pepe
Suzie Murphy
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
Entre Deus e o Pecado
Lulu Bains
Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) é um caixeiro-viajante oportunista, imoral e alcoólatra que é convertido pela Irmã Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons) e passa a viajar em sua companhia pelos Estados Unidos pregando e explorando novos fiéis. Ricos e famosos, eles constroem um templo, mas Gantry é abalado pelo reencontro com um antigo amor.
Bobbikins
Betty Barnaby
Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult.
O Rei da Zona
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.
Primavera do Amor
Liz Templeton
Um jovem que vai viver na fazenda de seus parentes no Kentucky se apaixona por sua vizinha. Nick Conover, de Chicago, recebeu uma sentença condicional por ter sido pego em um carro roubado, e sua carteira de motorista foi suspensa indefinidamente. O problema de Nicky é que anda com a turma errada. A sentença de Nicky é ir viver um tempo na fazenda de cavalos do Kentucky, de sua tia Henrietta e tio Jed Bruce, que ele não vê desde que era criança. O juiz achou que esse ambiente mais saudável tiraria Nicky de suas más influências. Henrietta quer fazer parte da salvação de Nicky, mas Jed não gosta do fato de um delinquente estar sob seu teto. Nicky não se revolta contra a vida na fazenda, mas acaba gravitando em direção a qualquer coisa mecânica, especialmente o carro esportivo de propriedade de sua vizinha, a sofisticada Fran Templeton, filha mais velha de Dan Templeton, dono da luxuosa fazenda de cavalos vizinha. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Carrossel
Julie Jordan
Billy é um jovem rapaz que trabalha organizando e animando um carrossel em um parque de diversões. Um dia, ele conhece a bela Julie, e os dois se apaixonam e decidem morar juntos. Julie engravida e, antes mesmo do bebê nascer, Billy morre. Depois de alguns anos, ele recebe uma nova chance para voltar à Terra e provar seu amor à sua esposa e sua filha.
Oklahoma!
Laurey Williams
Ambientado na Oklahoma do início da década de 1900, "Oklahoma!" conta a história de Curly (Gordon MacRae), um rancheiro extrovertido e bem-humorado, e de Laurey Williams (Shirley Jones), a filha do fazendeiro e dona do coração de Curly. O problema é que também há o ameaçador Jud (Rod Steiger), que tenta impedir os apaixonados de ficarem juntos. Com coreografia de Agnes de Mille, a trilha sonora contém clássicos como "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning", "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top", "People Will Say We're In Love" e "Oklahoma!". Este é o primeiro trabalho conjunto de Rodgers e Hammerstein, dando origem à mais criativa parceria da história dos musicais de cinema.
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.