Jones is best known for playing Shirley Partridge on The Patridge Family and for the films Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Music Man ...

Out of 5 nominations, Elmer Gantry won the first three categories to become a three-time Oscar-winning flick. Burt Lancaster won Best Actor while Shirley Jones and Richard Brooks bagged the next two.

Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31 ... 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 ...