Shirley Jones (1934-) is an Oscar® winning American actress. In her six decades of show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as 1955’s Oklahoma! , 1956’s Carousel and 1962’s The Music Man . She won an Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in 1960’s Elmer Gantry (1960). Growing up many people knew her as Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the television series The Partridge Family.
Her IMDb page shows 109 acting credits since 1950. This page will rank 19 Shirley Jones movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her many many television roles and movies not released in North America were not included in the rankings.
Shirley Jones Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Shirley Jones movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Shirley Jones movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Shirley Jones movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Shirley Jones movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins each Shirley Jones movie received.
- Sort Shirley Jones movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Im currently on holiday and off the net most of the time. But today the weather is bad, I’m on my own for a while and the first thing that comes to mind is to check UMR? Well, be it, still don’t like writing on my tablet, so this one will be short. 8 movies watched, faves are Oklahoma!, Carousel, Music Man and Elmer Gantry. Faint memories of The Patridge Family, but I’m sure I’ve only seen a few episodes of that tv show. Greetings from Portugal ?
Hey Lupino…..sounds like you are having a horrible time in Portgual…..lol. Hope the rain stops and you get back to seeing Portugal in all of it’s glory. I used to work with a guy that was born and raised there….he had some wonderful photos and stories of Portugal….envious that you are there.
As for Shirley Jones…..8 is a decent tally. Your favorite Jones movies were all made during her peak star years….my tally is higher than yours….but most of movies are Jones in supporting roles. I understand 100%….we older people like our big computers…..it is so much easier to type comments with a keyboard and mouse….lol. Good to hear from you.
HI BRUCE
I initially thought your academic Micklewhite connection today was with his portrayal of Prof Frank Bryant in Educating Rita and was going to express the hope that you didn’t want to do on your Bursar what Prof Bryant wanted to do with his!
In looking over this table and the costars column, you have Robert Forster as a co-star for The Music Man which was released in 1962. He never appeared in that movie. In fact, the earliest movie Forster was in was Reflections in a Golden Eye from 1967.
The first costar should read Robert PRESTON who played the title character.
HI FLORA Bruce may be the King of Movies but you certainly are the Queen of the Classic Era on this site and your Robert Preston/Robert Forster catch was a good one. Bruce will no doubt be grateful to you as he covers so many films and at such speed that it is impossible for him personally to spot every occasional error.
I certainly remember the fuss over Forster’s debut in Reflections in a Golden Eye because he had made his debut in a Taylor/Brando film. The film was a commercial and critical flop but am I right in saying that YOU once commented that it was at least noteworthy for being the 1st movie in which Liz “bared all” as the saying goes?
Whilst Preston was reasonably successful in his career, in terms of major stardom he was like the character in the famous novel The Hired Hand who was said to always be “a day late and a dollar short”. If you look at the Wikipedia poster for This Gun for Hire you will see that Preston is billed as the star along with Veronica Lake.
However during the shooting of that movie supporting actor Ladd emerged as a dynamic screen force as the cameras rolled and Alan’s part was apparently built up at Preston’s expense and in their two later films together Wild Harvest and Whispering Smith Robert was clearly consigned to supporting roles and inferior billing to Laddie.
Preston had as you are obviously aware a career purple patch in the late fifties/early sixties with the stage and film versions of Music Man and in that period he also had the male leads in the 1960 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs with Dorothy McQuire and 1963’s All the Way Home with Jean Simmons and was also in the ensemble cast of How the West Was Won.
Also given that you and Bruce between you have inadvertently forged a kind of Preston/Forster/Brando link a further sort of slender Dan-like thread runs through the matter. In 1972 possibly emboldened by basking in the success of his Godfather career-revival Brando walked out on the film Child’s Play with James Mason. Marlon was sued for breach of contract and Preston got the Brando part.
Anyway I hop you have a nice weekend.
Hey Bob…..good thoughts on Forster and Preston….two very different actors for sure. Robert Preston will probably get an UMR Page in the future….not sure about Robert F. Growing Robert Preston was the “old guy” from The Last Starfighter. Amazingly he does not seem as old today….lol.
I love the title Queen of the Classic Era. Interesting how Robert Preston’s career developed. I recently saw him in Victor/Victoria where he had a supporting role that got him an Oscar nomination. I’ve always enjoyed his films. I’m not too familiar with Forster’s career.
Hey Flora…good catch….sadly I am at work and can not fix that mistake currently. Good news is I am Michael Caine today….it is always a good day when you are Michael Caine….lol. Caine is a Math teacher I work with at school. I will fix my Robert mistake later today. Thanks for the heads up.
Robert Preston is now correctly listed as the star of The Music Man. I had also given Robert Forster credit for the lead role on our Top Musicals page….that was also fixed.