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Shirley Jones
In the past few years, Shirley has been busy touring the world, performing in concert. She has also accepted some fantastic and highly memorable guest appearances on popular network shows such as “The Drew Carey Show,” where she played Drew’s girlfriend, “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” and “That ‘70s Show”. In 1999 Shirley starred in the family film “Ping”. She was also featured in a comic cameo for the teen horror flick spoof titled: “Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th”. Shirley’s next major movie “Manna from Heaven” boasted an amazing Oscar-winning cast with Academy Award winning actresses Shirley Jones, Louise Fletcher, and Cloris Leachman. Then came “Bloodhead”, Shirley’s first venture into the horror film genre directed by Christopher (nephew of francis Ford) Coppolla.
After an incredible summer run on Broadway in the musical “42nd Street” also starring her son Patrick Cassidy (in the first time a Mother-son team had starred on Broadway), Shirley finished work on several films. She co-starred with Doris Roberts and Shirley Knight in ” Nana’s Boy”, an outrageous comedy from Adam Sandler, which leads all movies of 2006 for the “High Times” Magazine “Stony” Awards with six nominations, including Best Stoner Movie, Best Actor in a Movie, Best Pot Scene in a Movie, and Best Song in a Movie or TV Series. Shortly afterward Shirley completed work as Aunt Batty, an eccentric character in the marvelous Hallmark television production “Hidden Places” for which she was nominated for an Emmy.
She spent several months in Australia shooting a Lifetime movie “Monarch Cove”, is currently shooting a 13 episode series for PBS titled “Hollywood Singing and Dancing”, and has joined a pop rock band called “The Forever Family” whose CD (on which she sings lead on three POP songs) is being shopped to major record labels while a music reality show on the band is being shopped to networks in the US and in Canada.
Shirley’s formula for success can be summed up by this quote by husband Marty Ingels: “It is hard to conceive of a human being the likes of that consummate lady, who can somehow live and function in a world of flowers and frenzy, and see only the flowers.”
Yeah, Baby. Rock on, Shirley!
