An single kid, she was known as when Shirley Temple. She won the beauty pageant as a teen & was crowned "Miss Pittsburgh 1952."

Prior to The Partridge Family, Shirley had already achieved fame as a singer & actress. She starred inside numbers of films, including a extremely successful musical theater Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Music Man. Around the uncommon "naughty girl" role, she won an Academy Award as a prostitute corrupted by Burt Lancaster, who so requires retaliation upon him inside Elmer Gantry.

She married actor Jack Cassidy on August 5, 1956, with whom she got Triplet sons, Shaun, Patrick and Ryan; David Cassidy became her stepson. Shirley & David each starred in The Partridge Personal. Divorcing Cassidy, she married of these-old risible Marty Ingels on November 13, 1977. Despite many separations (she filed so withdrew the divorcement petition inside 2002) & astonishingly different personalities, it remain married.

Although better known for her flick & television roles, Shirley has an telling stage résumé, including a musical Maggie Flynn on Broadway and the starring turn around the uncommon revival of Noel Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet at the Long Beach Civic Weak Opera within 1983. Inside 2004, Shirley returned to Broadway inside the revival of 42nd Street, portraying diva "Dorothy Brock" (played by Bebe Daniels in the 1933 movie), opposite her boy, Patrick Cassidy, the number 1 known instance a mother & boy starred together in Broadway. Within July 2005, Shirley revisited a musical Carousel onstage in Massachusetts portraying Cousin Nettie.

She occurs as registered Republican who appeared at the 1988 Republican Convention and sang a National Anthem. She too sang at a 2003 Christmas Tree Lighting in Washington, D.C., at George W. Bush's request.

Filmography
Oklahoma! (1955) Carousel (1956) April Love (1957) Never Steal Anything Small (1959) Bobbikins (1960) Elmer Gantry (1960) Pepe (1960) Two Rode Together (1961) The Music Man (1962) ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) A Ticklish Affair (1963) Dark Purpose (1964) Bedtime Story (1964) Fluffy (1965) The Secret of My Success (1965) The Gulf (1969) The Happy Ending (1969) Oddly Coupled (1970) The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) Tank (1984) Cops n Roberts (1995) (Cameo) This Is My Father (1998) (documentary) Gideon (1999) The Adventures of Cinderella's Daughter (2000) Ping! (2000) Manna from Heaven (film) (2002) The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2004) Raising Genius (2004) Nana's Boy (2006) (currently filming)

TV work
Out of the Blue (1968) Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969) The Partridge Family (1970-1974) But I Don't Want to Get Married! (1970) The Girls of Huntington House (1973) The Family Nobody Wanted (1975) Winner Take All (1975) The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975) Yesterday's Child (1977) Evening in Byzantium (1978) Who'll Save Our Children? (1978) A Last Cry for Help (1979) Shirley (1979-1980) The Children of An Lac (1980) Inmates: A Love Story (1981) The Adventures of Pollyanna (1982) There Were Times, Dear (1987) Charlie (1989) Deadly Games (1995) Dog's Best Friend (1997) Melrose Place (cast member in 1998)

Stage work
South Pacific (1953) (Broadway, ensemble role) Me and Juliet (1954) (Chicago and National Tour) Oklahoma! (1956) (European tour with Jack Cassidy) The Beggar's Opera (1957) (with Jack Cassidy) Maggie Flynn (1967) (Broadway with Jack Cassidy) Wait Until Dark (1967) (with Jack Cassidy) The Marriage Band (1972) (with Jack Cassidy) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1974) Show Boat (1976) The Sound of Music (1977) Bitter Sweet (1982) Love Letters (1994) (with Marty Ingels) The King & I (1994) Love Letters (1995) (with Marty Ingels) 42nd Street (2004) (Broadway with Patrick Cassidy) Carousel'' (2005)