'Smithton, and nothing,' Jones recalls as her flustered reply. 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.Īfter '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?' 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. 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. but it was my life and it was the way I wanted to live it.' Doting mother: David Cassidy gets a kiss from his mother Shirley backstage during the TV Land Awards 2003 at the Hollywood Palladium
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