Many thanks to the Academy Players Directory for hosting Conversations with acting couple - Academy Award winning SHIRLEY JONES and the hilarious MARTY INGELS.

Shirley Mae Jones was born on March 31st 1934, in the small town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania. The only child of Paul and Marjorie Jones who named their daughter after Shirley Temple. At the age of three, the family moved to Smithton, Pennsylvania, another beautiful, small town only a few miles away. Smithton rests along the banks of the Youghiogheny River. Shirley had a carefree childhood in a town filled with friends, and family.

Shirley