Partridge Family Album, the rest of the story

Now you can read, as Paul Harvey said, The Rest of the Story 

... or at least the information I did not add to the other posts.  Enjoy

(Meg 2017)

The The Partridge Family's success contributed to her divorce from actor Jack Cassidy.

"The stratospheric success of the show took its toll on my marriage to Jack," Jones writes. "His overriding sense of inferiority in the face of my success drove him into the arms of other women even more often than before." After Jones caught Cassidy at a restaurant with another woman, he announced he wanted a separation, and the couple later divorced (Nguyan 2023).

(Meg 2017)

Danny Bonaduce was a troublemaker on set.

In the memoir Jones calls Bonaduce, who played Danny Partridge, "highly talented" and "really, really smart." "But he was still a kid and would do kid things like get a dish of food and throw it across the room or have a pillow fight," she writes. "Danny was a wild child who came from an unhappy home. At eleven, he started smoking." And although the cast "loved and appreciated him, we couldn't deny that he was snotty at times. Once, when he was getting too big for his boots, we all ganged up on him and convinced Susan to pour a pitcher of milk over his head, just to put him in his place." The incident found its way into an episode of The Partridge Family, but with David Cassidy on the receiving end of the prank instead (Nguyen 2023).  

(Meg 2017)

(Meg 2017)

Between 1970 and 1974, The Partridge Family was one of the most beloved TV shows in America. Audiences watched the singing family for four seasons as the show picked up five Golden Globe nominations, high ratings, and even a Grammy nomination (Nguyen 2023). 

 

Jones loved some guest stars, but not others.

"One of the joys of working on The Partridge Family was the guest stars," Jones writes. When Farrah Fawcett joined an episode "everyone noticed what a great looker she was and predicted she would go on to be a big star," Jones says. Jodie Foster, who guest-starred when she was 11, was "one of the finest child actresses I had ever worked with," and Rob Reiner was "great" and also "fun to work with." On the other hand, Jones found fault with some of the other guest stars through the years: when Dick Clark came on the show, Jones "didn't like him very much," Richard Pryor was "so drugged up that he never asked me a thing about myself," and Ray Bolger was "a bit irritable and insisted that everything had to be his way," Jones writes (Nguyen 2023). 

Sources

Meg. (2017, November 30). 10 Facts About The Partridge Family That Will Bring A Whole Lot Of Lovin'. Retrieved June 13, 2023, from Throwbacks: https://www.throwbacks.com/partridge-family-facts/

Nguyen, V.-A. (2023). 7 Surprising Secrets of The Partridge Family Cast from Shirley Jones's Memoir. (Arena Media Brands) Retrieved June 13, 2023, from Parade: https://parade.com/58537/viannguyen/7-surprising-secrets-of-the-partridge-family-cast-from-shirley-joness-memoir/