In the 1970's TV series 'The Partridge Family', which actress played the part of the children's mother?
"the ABC special ""Thanksgiving Reunion with The Partridge Family and My Three Sons"", that aired on November 25, 1977. The show featured the casts discussing the histories of their shows, although other than Jones and Fred MacMurray both portraying single parents of large families, the two series had no narrative link. In 1995, a majority of the cast appeared on Bonaduce's talk show ""Danny!"", including Shirley Jones, Dave Madden, Jeremy Gelbwaks, Brian Forster, Suzanne Crough, Ricky Segall and the show's executive producer Bob Claver. Susan Dey was working on a movie at the time but called into the show to"
"Suzanne Crough Suzanne J. Crough (March 6, 1963 – April 27, 2015) was an American child actress best known for her role as Tracy Partridge on ""The Partridge Family"". On ""The Partridge Family"", Crough played Tracy Partridge, the youngest Partridge sibling, who played the tambourine. After ""The Partridge Family"", she made several TV movies and made guest appearances on television shows, including ""Mulligan's Stew"". Her last credited on-screen role was as Kate in the 1980 TV movie ""Children of Divorce"". Crough graduated from Los Angeles Pierce College and until 1993 owned and operated a bookstore. She married William Condray in"
"Susan Dey Susan Hallock Dey (born December 10, 1952) is a retired American actress, known for her television roles as Laurie Partridge on the sitcom ""The Partridge Family"" from 1970 to 1974, and as Grace Van Owen on the drama series ""L.A. Law"" from 1986 to 1992. A three-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series for ""L.A. Law"" in 1988. Dey was born Susan Hallock Dey in Pekin, Illinois, to Ruth Pyle (née Doremus) Dey, a nurse, and Robert Smith Dey, a newspaper editor for"
"product 20 Mule Team Borax, which sponsored ""Death Valley Days"". DeCamp had a recurring role as Helen Marie, the mother of Marlo Thomas's character on the ABC sitcom ""That Girl"" from 1966–1970. She appeared in several 1968 episodes of the CBS sitcom ""Petticoat Junction"" as Kate Bradley's sister, Helen, filling in as a temporary replacement for the ailing Bea Benaderet as the mother figure to Bradley's three daughters. DeCamp made several appearances as the mother of Shirley Partridge in ""The Partridge Family"" from 1970–1973. She also played The Fairy Godmother in the 1980s TV show, ""The Memoirs of a Fairy"
"role that ultimately went to her best friend, Florence Henderson, Jones was the producers' first choice to audition for the lead role of Shirley Partridge in ""The Partridge Family"", an ABC musical sitcom based loosely on the real-life musical family The Cowsills. The series focused on a young widowed mother whose five children form a pop rock group after the entire family painted its signature bus to travel. She was convinced that the combination of music and comedy would be a surefire hit. Jones realized, however, that: During its first season, it became a hit and was screened in over"
"a relationship when production on the show finished, but Cassidy broke it off as he did not reciprocate her feelings. In 1994, Cassidy disclosed details on his relationship with Dey in his autobiography, ""C'mon, Get Happy ... Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus"". Dey's response was to sever all contact with Cassidy. Susan Dey Susan Hallock Dey (born December 10, 1952) is a retired American actress, known for her television roles as Laurie Partridge on the sitcom ""The Partridge Family"" from 1970 to 1974, and as Grace Van Owen on the drama series ""L.A. Law"" from 1986 to"
"dysplasia, a rare form of cardiomyopathy. Several of Crough's ""Partridge Family"" co-stars paid tribute to her, including Shirley Jones and Danny Bonaduce. Bonaduce lamented, ""Everyone thought I'd be the first Partridge to go. Sadly it was little Tracy. Suzanne was a wonderful lady and a good mom. She will be missed."" Suzanne Crough Suzanne J. Crough (March 6, 1963 – April 27, 2015) was an American child actress best known for her role as Tracy Partridge on ""The Partridge Family"". On ""The Partridge Family"", Crough played Tracy Partridge, the youngest Partridge sibling, who played the tambourine. After ""The Partridge Family"","
"with his wife, Corie (played by Tracy Reed). The show was a slice-of-life situation comedy about surviving in New York City. Other regulars included Thelma Carpenter as Corie's mother, Mable Bates, Harry Holcombe as Mr. Kendricks, Vito Scotti as Mr. Velasquez and Nipsey Russell as local pool hall owner, Honey Robinson. Dead End Kids alumnus Huntz Hall and actor Jackie Coogan appeared on the 10th episode, aired December 3, 1970, entitled ""Disorder in the Court"" (which gets its title from the 1936 Three Stooges short). Penny Marshall made one of her earliest television appearances on the 4th episode of the"
"(born on September 30, 1977). The four siblings later wrote a book about their family life after their parents' untimely deaths, ""The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir"" (Harmony/Random House, 2009). Ann Williams (actress) Ann Morgan Williams (May 18, 1935 – December 13, 1985) was an American television, soap opera and Broadway actress. A native of Washington, D.C., Williams' notable soap roles included stints on ""The Doctors"" as the first Dr. Maggie Fielding Powers and on ""The Edge of Night"" as television station owner Margo Huntington Dorn. Her most memorable role, however, for which she is best-remembered, was as the"
"""Madigan"" and ""Rachel, Rachel"" in 1968, ""Love Story"" in 1970, ""The Hospital"" in 1971, ""Child's Play"" in 1972 and ""The Sentinel"" in 1977. Beginning in 1956, Harrington made sporadic television appearances, including 2 in ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"" presentations of ""The Cradle Song"", ""Ford Star Jubilee"", ""Experiment in Television"" and ""Great Performances"". On daytime television, Harrington was the second actress to play Katherine 'Kate' Martin on ""All My Children"", a role she played from early February until August of 1970. Then Harrington moved on to the role of Marion Conway (#2) on ""Guiding Light"" from 1971 to 1972. Harrington died"
"Catherine Hicks Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 6, 1951) is an American television, film, and stage actress. She is known for her role as Annie Camden on the long-running television series ""7th Heaven"". Other notable roles include Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera ""Ryan's Hope"" (1976–1978), her Emmy Award-nominated performance as Marilyn Monroe in """" (1980), Dr. Gillian Taylor in """" (1986), and Karen Barclay in ""Child's Play"" (1988). Hicks was born in New York City, the daughter of Jackie, a homemaker, and Walter Hicks, an electronics salesman. She is of Irish and English ancestry. Her family moved to"
"year, she accepted the similar role of a mother with five children, named Shirley Partridge, in ""The Partridge Family"", which aired from 1970–1974. Primarily owing to her role on ""The Brady Bunch"", Henderson was ranked by TV Land and ""Entertainment Weekly"" as number 54 on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Icons. An avid game-show fan, Henderson was a frequent panelist on the original version of ""Hollywood Squares"" and made occasional appearances on ""The $25,000 Pyramid"". Her other game show appearances include ""Password"", the original ""Match Game"", ""What's My Line"" (as panelist and mystery guest), ""To Tell The Truth"","
"and Marion Ross (""Happy Days""), Monty Hall (""Let's Make A Deal""), Gavin MacLeod (""The Love Boat"" and ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show""), Don Knotts, Richard Kline and Jenilee Harrison (""Three's Company""), and Danny Bonaduce and Shirley Jones (""The Partridge Family""). Series recurring cast member Tanya Roberts also starred in a popular show in the 1970s (""Charlie's Angels""). Beginning with season 5, each episode in the series is named after a song by a rock band that was famous in the 1970s: Led Zeppelin (season 5), The Who (Season 6), The Rolling Stones (season 7), and Queen (season 8, except for"
"campaign office and for The League of Women Voters. Catherine Hicks Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 6, 1951) is an American television, film, and stage actress. She is known for her role as Annie Camden on the long-running television series ""7th Heaven"". Other notable roles include Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera ""Ryan's Hope"" (1976–1978), her Emmy Award-nominated performance as Marilyn Monroe in """" (1980), Dr. Gillian Taylor in """" (1986), and Karen Barclay in ""Child's Play"" (1988). Hicks was born in New York City, the daughter of Jackie, a homemaker, and Walter Hicks, an electronics salesman. She is"
"the ""Standard-Star"" in New Rochelle, New York. Ruth died in 1961, when Susan was eight years old. Susan attended Columbus Elementary School in Thornwood, New York, later moving to Mount Kisco, New York, where she graduated from Fox Lane High School in 1970. Dey was a model before starring as Laurie Partridge in the television series ""The Partridge Family"" from 1970 to 1974. She was 17 years old when she won the part and had no previous acting experience. Her first modeling break was the cover photo for a booklet by Pursettes tampons on first facts of menstruation for young"
"selfish. She supposedly saw Allison and her friend Norman Page, swimming in the nude (It had really been Rodney Harrington and Betty Anderson; Allison and Norman were wearing swimming attire) and she had called Constance and Evelyn (Allison and Norman's mothers, respectively) to spread the news. Marion Partridge Marion Partridge (née Saltmarsh) is a fictional character in the novel ""Peyton Place"" and in the subsequent film adaptation. In the film, Marion was played by actress Peg Hillias. Marion Saltmarsh was born an unknown seaside community in New Hampshire, and met her future husband, Charles Partridge, fresh from law school, when"
"Cowsill singing lead vocals, peaked at #2. The Cowsills made regular television appearances, which led to Columbia Pictures considering a sitcom based on their story and starring most of the members of the band; the deal was abandoned when the producers of the show wanted to replace Barbara in the cast. The show would later become ""The Partridge Family"", with David Cassidy playing the lead singer and Shirley Jones as the mother. It was commonly thought that Cowsill's involvement with the family band came to an abrupt end in 1969 when his father, Bud, caught him smoking marijuana, and he"
"Kate Martin (All My Children) Kate Martin is a fictional character on the soap opera, ""All My Children"". She was played by Christine Thomas from January to early February 1970, then by Kate Harrington from February to October 1970, and finally by Kay Campbell, from October 1970 to April 1985. She was the matriarch of the Martin family, wife of Henry Martin and mother of Joe and Paul Martin. She was usually found in the kitchen cooking some of her famous recipes or offering sensible advice to Tad. Kate Martin suffered many tragedies around the same time, including the death"
"Not in Front of the Children (TV series) Not in Front of the Children is a BBC television situation comedy, which ran for four series from 1967 to 1970. It starred Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, a rather scatterbrained middle-class housewife. Her husband Henry was a school art teacher, played by Paul Daneman in the ""Comedy Playhouse"" pilot ""House in a Tree"" and the first series, and Ronald Hines subsequently. They had three children, a boy in his early teens (played by Hugo Keith-Johnston) and two girls who were slightly younger (played by Roberta Tovey and Jill Riddick). Charlotte Mitchell"
"Mrs Partridge, the librarians having a not-so-secret affair. Butler and Martin, however, were dropped as major characters after the first series. According to Peter Sallis, Roy Clarke felt there was little more he could do with them. Although the show initially focused on the trio and four to five supporting characters, the cast expanded over the years to include an ensemble of eccentric characters who rounded out the show. The biggest expansion came in 1985 when four characters from the stage adaptation of the show were brought over to the series proper: Howard (Robert Fyfe), Pearl (Juliette Kaplan), Marina (Jean"
"Hour"" (1961) and Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (1963), which were both highly successful. In ""The Birds"", she was cast along with her television father from ""Leave It to Beaver"", Richard Deacon, although the two were not on screen together. She played daughter Jemima Boone in the first two seasons of NBC's ""Daniel Boone"" from 1964 until 1966, with co-stars Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, Ed Ames and Dallas McKennon. She won a regional Emmy Award for the television movie ""Tell Me Not in Mournful Numbers"" (1964). Cartwright achieved successes with ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers"" (1978) and ""Alien"" (1979),"
"Harris, and is the mother of author Sam Harris. The first script Harris sold was ""Then Came Bronson"". She then wrote for ""Love, American Style"", ""All in the Family"", ""The Partridge Family"" and the TV adaptation of Neil Simon's ""Barefoot in the Park"". Her abortion episode for the Bea Arthur-starring series ""Maude"" in the 1970s won Harris the Humanitas Prize. She would later work with Arthur again in the 1980s when Arthur took one of the lead roles in ""The Golden Girls"". Harris had the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, which affected her ability to participate in the production of"
"Jeremy Gelbwaks Jeremy R. Gelbwaks (born May 22, 1961; Los Angeles) is a former American child actor who starred in the television series ""The Partridge Family"" (1970–71). Gelbwaks was the first actor to play the role of Chris Partridge. He left the program (and the business) after the first season, and was replaced by Brian Forster in the summer of 1971. According to his ""Partridge Family"" co-star David Cassidy, Gelbwaks ""had a personality conflict with every person in the cast and the producers"". In a 2005 interview with the Television Academy Foundation, Shirley Jones mentioned that Gelbwaks ""was not happy"
"familiar ""Father Knows Best"" style and later renovated variations in episodes of ""Hazel,"" ""Bewitched,"" ""The Monkees,"" ""The Partridge Family"" and in numerous other television comedies and dramas. The TV cast reunited for a pair of TV movies on NBC: ""Father Knows Best Reunion"" on May 15, 1977 and ""Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas"" on December 18, 1977. In the 17 years since the series ended, the characters of Betty and Bud had both gotten married and had families of their own. Betty was the widowed mother of two girls, Jenny (Cari Anne Warder) and Ellen (Kyle Richards), while Bud"
"briefly reminisce with Bonaduce. David Cassidy was also unable to appear as he was working on a new album at that time. In 2004, VH1 produced a pilot for a syndicated ""The New Partridge Family"", starring Suzanne Sole as Shirley, Leland Grant as Keith, Emma Stone as Laurie and Spencer Tuskowski as Danny. The pilot was the only episode produced. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released all 4 Seasons of ""The Partridge Family"" in DVD Region 1. Seasons 1 and 2 have been released in Regions 2 and 4. On October 15, 2013, Sony released ""The Partridge Family – The"
"to do so, the ram points out that three of them did not fly away. Pleased at finding new friends, he names them Joy, Nellie, and Aranea, but as much as he loves them, they will never replace the memory of Charlotte. Five members of the cast (Henry Gibson, Paul Lynde, Agnes Moorehead, Danny Bonaduce, and Dave Madden) had previously appeared on the ABC television sitcom ""Bewitched"" (1964-1972). Hanna-Barbera also animated the opening credits of the show. However, Bonaduce and Madden are better known for their roles on another ABC-TV sitcom, ""The Partridge Family"" (1970–1974), which was still in production"
"played by native-Liverpudlian Michael Angelis; her father Mr. Boswell played by Ray Dunbobbin; and her mother Mrs. Boswell played initially by Eileen Kennally and later Carmel McSharry. Carla Lane's later series ""Bread"" revolved around the Boswell family and, in interviews, Lane agreed that the two families were probably related. Both the pilot and all 4 episodes from series 1 (originally aired in 1969) are missing, presumed wiped in their entirety, however, the opening titles (including some footage from one of the missing episodes) still exists. In 1996, 17 years after the final episode of the classic original series was broadcast,"
"mid-1950s, Hervey transitioned to television, appearing as a guest star on ""Perry Mason"", ""Honey West"", and ""My Three Sons"", the latter of which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role. Hervey appeared in occasional minor film roles in her later career, such as Gene Saks's ""Cactus Flower"" (1969) and Clint Eastwood's thriller ""Play Misty for Me"" (1971). Hervey died on December 20, 1998 of heart failure in Los Angeles. She had two children, one of whom is pop singer Jack Jones. Hervey was born Beulah Irene Herwick on July"
"years (1970–72). In the Season 4 episode of ""The Partridge Family"" entitled ""Hate Thy Neighbor"" (1973), she appeared as Donna Stevens, the daughter of the new family who move in next door to the Partridges. She then appeared often on popular dramas ""Emergency!"" (in which her stepmother and father co-starred), ""Marcus Welby, M.D."", ""S.W.A.T."" and ""Adam-12"". From 1987 to 1990, she portrayed ""Barbara"" on the CBS show ""Knots Landing"". In more recent years, Troup has appeared in guest roles on ""Strong Medicine"", ""The West Wing"" , and ""Cold Case"". On June 19, 2010, Troup appeared with her ""My Three Sons"""
"Dead Donkey"", ""Pie in the Sky"", ""Cracker"", ""Heartbeat"", ""The Bill"", ""Driving Ambition"", ""Peak Practice"" and ""EastEnders"". Her film credits include ""It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet"" (1977), ""Tess"" (1979), ""Britannia Hospital"" (1982), ""Slayground"" (1983), ""Secret Places"" (1984), ""The Dressmaker"" (1988), ""The Raggedy Rawney"" (1988), ""A Dry White Season"" (1989) and ""The Object of Beauty"" (1991). Martin died on 14 August 1998. Rosemary Martin Rosemary Martin (17 December 1936 – 14 August 1998) was an English actress, born in Birmingham. She appeared in dozens of films from 1964 to 1998 and is also known for television roles including Mrs. Partridge in"
"2000. The couple appeared together on screen in productions such as ""The Debt, The Robinsons, The Good Night"" and ""Sherlock"". They lived in Hertfordshire and have two children together. The couple split in 2016. Abbington was declared bankrupt by the High Court in March 2013 as a result of a £120,000 tax bill, but declared in March 2014 that she had already resolved the issue. Amanda Abbington Amanda Abbington (born Amanda Jane Smith; 28 February 1974) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Miss Mardle in ""Mr Selfridge"" and Mary Morstan in the BBC adaptation of ""Sherlock""."
"Meredith MacRae Meredith Lynn MacRae (May 30, 1944 – July 14, 2000) was an American actress and singer known for her roles as Sally Morrison on ""My Three Sons"" (1963–1965) and as Billie Jo Bradley on ""Petticoat Junction"" (1966–1970). MacRae was born in Houston, Texas, to parents Gordon and Sheila MacRae. Her father was stationed with the Army Air Corps in Houston at the time of her birth. Both of her parents went on to be actors. She is the sister of William Gordon MacRae, Robert Bruce MacRae, and Heather MacRae. She credited her parents with instilling a proper work"
"David Cassidy David Bruce Cassidy (April 12, 1950 – November 21, 2017) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was known for his role as Keith Partridge, the son of Shirley Partridge (played by his stepmother Shirley Jones), in the 1970s musical-sitcom ""The Partridge Family"", which led to his becoming one of popular culture's teen idols and superstar pop singers of the 1970s. He later had a career in both acting and music. Cassidy was born at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City, the son of singer and actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward. His"