A musical would go on for six months to a year. A regular movie was usually two or three months.
Actually, I had turned down The Brady Bunch first.
Actually, I turned down television. I was not about to go into television.
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Again, I liked the regularity of a TV series. I liked knowing what I am going to do every day.
All In The Family was a brand new concept in television, and suddenly we were old hat.
And it was an old bus. I mean, it had the clutch and shift in the floor.
At that time it was a step down. Movie stars didn't do television.
But for that time, it was a very good salary if the series was a hit.
But that's what made the show so much fun because we were a normal family BUT we had that extra little cherry on the cake that made us interesting.
But the salaries were nowhere near what they are today.
But with TV, the days were shorter and they were much quicker.
David started on Broadway and Jack respected his talent.
First of all, I was home and working with kids, and they loved the show.
For Shaun, I had a nurse from the time he was born until he was about four or five.
I didn't have to do a lot of driving, but it was nerve-wracking in the beginning. I would basically just put it in gear and we would go.
I don't miss those days, but I miss that kind of musical format. I love watching them still.
I don't think it had anything to do with David leaving. I think the show had just run its course.
I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.
I knew from the beginning that I wasn't supposed to front the band.
I knew I would be mostly in the background to David, because he was the lead singer.
I liked The Partridge Family because it had music in it and I felt it had a chance to succeed because it was different.
I obviously learned to drive on an automatic so I had no idea how to drive a clutch with the gearshift in the floor.
I thought we did a great pilot, which sold the show.
I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.
I was not an expert on child actors.
I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.
I'm not very good at harmony so I'm sure I had the melody.
I've never been a rock fan at all.
It took a full week to shoot the show. We would go over the script and rehearse on Monday, and then shoot from Tuesday through Friday.
It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.
Movies were always done on location then. You rarely ever did a film in the studio.
Now in my career, I want to play roles that are challenging and fun and different for me.
Now, for me, I want to keep an interest in what I am doing and have fun.
Now, Marty's humor is a bit different and he has a different approach to humor than Jack did, but Jack wanted to be a stand-up comic.
Now, they would welcome changes but I never actually just threw out the idea. That would have been too difficult to do.
Oh, sure, I was doing a lot of movies for television, but the big screen was not as easy.
That show came at a time in my life where I wanted some normalcy.
The European market just was not receptive to the musicals.
The fact of the matter is, Marty can't lie. Everything is out there, whether he is talking to the press or the neighbor next door.
The genre of the European film was total stark reality and America was eager to get in on that kind of market.
The Music Man is charming to watch on television.
The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place.
The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.
The musicals will always remain very important to me because they are classics.
The woman was one of the first working mothers without a husband - which at that time I thought was a good step forward.
There's too much reality these days.
They had musicals in the 1940s, of course, the MGM musicals, and then they did the stage musicals, and then they just stopped.
They put us opposite All In The Family and that was the death of the show.
We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.
We would have the readings every Monday, and read the scripts.
What AMC is trying to do is make people aware of what classics these films were.
When David was growing up, even though I spent time with him during the summer and on holidays, he was very withdrawn and reticent.
You had a salary every week, whereas if you had a movie, it's one lump sum and then you wait for four, five, or six months and not work.
Shirley is an only child.
Shirley is the real life step-mother of her "Partridge Family" co-star David Cassidy.
She was named after Shirley Temple.
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