Cast: Shirley Jones

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Shirley Jones. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Elmer Gantry

1960 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Burt Lancaster · Jean Simmons · Shirley Jones · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis Elmer Gantry is a fast talking, hard drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. He is immediately taken with Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher whose hellfire and...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

Two Rode Together

1961 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast James Stewart · Richard Widmark · Shirley Jones · Linda Cristal

Synopsis Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.

7.4

5K votes

7.4

5K votes

The Music Man

1962 · Movie · 151 min. · United States

Direction Morton da Costa

Cast Robert Preston · Shirley Jones · Buddy Hackett · Hermione Gingold

Synopsis Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy's marching band, then skip town with the money since he has no music skill...

6.5

288 votes

6.5

288 votes

The Cheyenne Social Club

1970 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Shirley Jones · Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis John is working as a cow poke for very little money with his friend Harley when he gets word his brother, DJ, has left him The Cheyenne Social Club. He and Harley ride for nearly a thousand miles to his...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

1963 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Glenn Ford · Shirley Jones · Stella Stevens · Dina Merrill

Synopsis Six-years-old Eddie Corbett (Ron Howard) tries his best to be a matchmaker for his widowed father, Tom Corbett (Glenn Ford). At first, sexy Dollye Daly (Stella Stevens) seems promising, but she ends up falling in love with and marrying Tom's...

6.4

402 votes

6.4

402 votes

Bedtime Story

1964 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Levy

Cast Marlon Brando · David Niven · Shirley Jones · Dody Goodman

Synopsis In this 1960s comedy, Freddy Benson (Marlon Brando) and Lawrence 'The Prince' Jameson (David Niven) are two charming scoundrel confidence trickster gigolos who prey on wealthy women taking holidays on the French Riviera. The pair join a playful competition to...

6.3

596 votes

6.3

596 votes

Oklahoma!

1955 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gordon MacRae · Shirley Jones · Charlotte Greenwood · Rod Steiger

Synopsis Set in the times of the early 1900s', the musical is partially about the Indian Territory becoming the state of Oklahoma. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who had trouble admitting his feelings to Laurey, as does she. They both love...

6.3

466 votes

6.3

466 votes

Carousel

1956 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Gordon MacRae · Shirley Jones · Cameron Mitchell · Barbara Ruick

Synopsis Billy is sent down "from above" for one day to try and make amends for mistakes he made in life. Billy worked at the carnival running the carousel, which is where he met Julie. The carny owner Mrs. Mullen fires...

5.9

208 votes

5.9

208 votes

The Partridge Family (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Slade · Richard Kinon

Cast Shirley Jones · David Cassidy · Susan Dey · Danny Bonaduce

Synopsis Suburban widow Shirley and her kids tour the country in a wildly painted bus performing music as a family. Their agent Reuben hates kids, so Danny gives him a bad time.

5.5

41 votes

5.5

41 votes

Grandma's Boy

2006 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Nicholaus Goossen

Cast Linda Cardellini · Allen Covert · Doris Roberts · Nick Swardson

Synopsis By day, 35-year-old Alex (Allen Covert) is the world's oldest video game tester, but by night. By night, he is privately developing the next big game for the X-Box generation. When one of his roommates (Jonathan Loughran) spends all the...

5.4

1K votes

5.4

1K votes

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Allen

Cast Michael Caine · Karl Malden · Sally Field · Telly Savalas

Synopsis Adventurers return to the overturned ship, seeking a fortune.

5.2

947 votes

5.2

947 votes

Pepe

1960 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Dan Dailey · Shirley Jones · Vicki Trickett

Synopsis The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.

5.1

286 votes

5.1

286 votes

Family Weekend

2013 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Benjamin Epps

Cast Kristin Chenoweth · Matthew Modine · Olesya Rulin · Joey King

Synopsis A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

4.7

435 votes

4.7

435 votes

Gideon

1999 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Claudia Hoover

Cast Christopher Lambert · Charlton Heston · Carroll O'Connor · Shirley Jones

Synopsis Gideon is a young man living out the remainder of his life in a home for the elderly, where he enriches the lives of his fellow residents.

4.7

74 votes

4.7

74 votes

Something So Right (TV Series)

1996 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction James Widdoes · Max Tash · John Rich · Gerry Cohen

Cast Mel Harris · Jere Burns · Marnette Patterson · Emily Ann Lloyd

Synopsis Oh, this marriage thing. There's no fooling around, this time. Jack and Carly have both done this, before. He's done it once; she's been through it twice. This time is different, though. Together with his daughter, Nicole; her son, Will;...

4.5

49 votes

4.5

49 votes

Zombie Night (TV)

2013 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Gulager

Cast Daryl Hannah · Anthony Michael Hall · Rachel G. Fox · Alan Ruck

Synopsis Zombies come out at night and two families must survive until morning.

3.6

63 votes

3.6

63 votes

El golfo

1969 · Movie · 94 min. · Spain

3.6

208 votes

3.6

208 votes

Direction Kristoffer Tabori

Cast Alison Sweeney · Marc Blucas · Shirley Jones · Rebecca Staab

Synopsis A young woman receives a letter that her deceased grandmother requests she hand-deliver to a man in her grandmother's childhood home in Maine. She begins a journey of discovery of her grandmother, herself, and quality of life.

3.6

55 votes

3.6

55 votes

Ping!

2000 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Chris Baugh

Cast Judge Reinhold · Clint Howard · Shirley Jones · Lou Ferrigno

Synopsis 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...

3.0

60 votes

3.0

60 votes