New Book: Shirley Jones Dishes On Her Kinky Sex Life With Marty Ingels And Jack Cassidy

Jul 23, 2013
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She is best known for playing innocent Shirley Partridge in the hit Seventies series, The Partridge Family.

But famed Oklahoma actress Shirley Jones has completely shed that image in a new tell-all book, recounting her kinky sex life with husband Marty Ingels and famous ex-Jack Cassidy.

In her autobiography, simply titled ‘Shirley Jones’, the 79-year-old actress completely turns her TV image on its head in startling – even shocking – ways.

On the pages there is recounting of her early life and dazzling career that included working with two musical theater masters, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, as well as many of Hollywood’s top actors, including Marlon Brando, Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark.

But a substantial part of the book is spent on her troubled marriage to the late Jack Cassidy, the glossily handsome actor and singer whom she describes in a passage as her first lover and ‘sexual Svengali,’ and whose lessons she shares candidly.

That includes Cassidy’s impressive endowment, Jones’ own ‘highly sexed’ nature that made orgasms a breeze, their threesome with another woman (‘yuck,’ she says, when asked about the onetime experiment), Cassidy’s pre-marital sexual encounter with Cole Porter that Jones says left her unfazed, and her apparent tolerance for his infidelities.

The character of Marian, the spinsterish librarian in 1962’s The Music Man, another smash hit for Jones, ‘wasn’t me,’ she says firmly in the book.

And her autobiography makes that abundantly clear, although she says it took the passing of years for to bring such candor.

‘I never would have written this book if I weren’t the age I am now,’ she says.

She overturned her squeaky-clean image once before with her Oscar-winning portrayal of a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960) opposite Burt Lancaster, and the role that she considers her most important.

It also brought backlash from her admirers.

‘I got letters up the kazoo: `Why would you ever take a part like this?’ Jones recalls in her tome.

Marty Ingels, the comedian who is her second husband of 35 years and counting, jokes that he is offended by her personal history.

‘All that stuff she did with her husband (Cassidy), all those adventures …. I’m looking into the grounds of having my marriage annulled,’ he says.

That draws a boisterous guffaw from Jones, whose loyalty to her outspoken, eccentric spouse has provoked speculation about how she could have jumped to Ingels from Cassidy, deeply troubled but unquestionably urbane.

Jones has a simple answer for doubters: Ingels makes her laugh every day and keeps life from being boring.

Her sexuality remains unabated, says the naturally youthful-looking Jones (healthy eating, daily exercise and no plastic surgery, she said). She is eager to quash the idea that age kills passion or friskiness.

Current spouse: The famed actress also discusses her healthy sex life with current hubby Marty Ingels.

Current spouse: The famed actress also discusses her healthy sex life with current hubby Marty Ingels.

‘Luckily, Marty thinks I’ve still got a beautiful body, even though it is old, and every now and again I take all of my clothes off in front of him and shake my (breasts) at him, and he loves it,’ Jones writes in her autobiography.

As she sees it, her own steady temperament made her crave an exciting, surprising partner, and both Cassidy and Ingels fit the description.

She met Cassidy as a 21-year-old small-town girl, a virgin, and ‘he taught me a lot about everything. Absolutely everything,’ Jones says.

‘I learned about life with Jack, about parties with Jack, drinking with Jack, design with Jack. He was bright, well-read, smart.’

He was also repeatedly unfaithful to her, envious of her success and an inadequate father who late in life was diagnosed as bipolar, Jones says.

‘Many people may say, `She was crazy. She did anything he wanted and it wasn’t good for her, wasn’t good for the kids, wasn’t good for the people around her,” she says.

‘I’m going to get a lot of that … but it was my life and it was the way I wanted to live it.’

Her autobiography begins innocently enough, with Jones born in Charleroi, Pa., and moving as a toddler to Smithton, Pa., where her father helped run the family-owned brewery, the Jones Brewing Co.

She describes herself as a rebellious tomboy, ‘wild, willful and independent,’ who became obsessed with movies and their stars but intended to turn her love of animals into a career as a veterinarian. Talent intervened.

In 1953, on a post-high school graduation trip to New York with her parents, a friend introduced her to an agent who, immediately impressed, told her to attend an open audition with John Fearnley, the casting director for the songwriting team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

After ‘going for broke’ and singing The Best Things in Life Are Free, a voice from the theater called out to Jones on stage, ‘Where are you from? And what have you done before?’

‘Smithton, and nothing,’ Jones recalls as her flustered reply.

She received a part in the chorus for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific and then, a year later, the starring role in the duo’s Oklahoma! – as well as the title of ‘Hollywood’s new Cinderella,’ as Jones recounts in her book.

With the end of the big-screen musical era, Jones fought for recognition as a serious actress to win the role in Elmer Gantry and other dramatic fare.

The Partridge Family, about a widow and her musical family and co-starring David Cassidy, allowed her to work in Los Angeles and be home at night with her young children.

She didn’t see Hollywood as exciting, Jones insisted. It was work, which she left behind each day when she returned to her roles as wife and mother.

‘I liked my job, but when I came home, I never thought of it,’ said Jones, who still takes on occasional theater, movie and TV roles.

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