Jones made her Broadway debut as a replacement in the chorus of the original run of . Coming under the wing of composer , she appeared in the ensemble of on Broadway before being tapped to play both Laurey in the 1955 film of "" and Julie Jordan in the 1956 film of "." She worked steadily in movies, TV and occasionally Broadway for decades afterward, though she is probably most widely known as the mother on the TV series "The Partridge Family."
As a happy birthday from 半岛体育, here she is as Marian the Librarian with singing "Till There Was You" in the 1962 film of . The song starts at the 1:14 mark. Note the casual reference to Broadway operetta composer Rudolph Friml at the very end.
