VCOS: Did you have a favorite singer when you were growing up? I still can hit a high C and I’m almost 80. I was very difficult to raise, I’m told (laughs). I had a very definite personality because I was an only child. I didn’t want to travel all over the world and learn new languages. If I was going to sing, I wanted to sing on Broadway or in movies. Then I entered a contest for Miss Pittsburgh, sang an aria, Il Bacio, and won. My parents sent me to a girls camp when I was about 12 and the counselor called my mother and said, “Do you know what you have here? This is an extraordinary voice.” Then she started me in singing lessons in Pittsburgh and the teacher told my mother I had an unbelievable coloratura soprano voice. VCOS: Were you a singer or an actress first? We interviewed Shirley at her comfortable Encino home, where she talked about her career in Broadway and in films and television. It was at this point that fate stepped in, and Shirley became one of that rare breed: an overnight success in show business. Teachers told her parents she had astounding coloratura abilities, but after graduating from high school in 1952, she decided she wanted to attend veterinary school. Blessed with natural singing talent, Shirley started singing at age 6. Shirley Jones was born Main Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a small town outside of Pittsburgh.
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