As Jack struggled with his career, he became jealous of his wife because her career was constantly on the rise while his remained static. They would have three sons, including another teen idol in the form of Sean Cassidy (1958-), before Jack’s bizarre and erratic behaviour caused her to divorce him for the safety of her boys.įrom the time Shirley and Jack married she found success came easily even if she wasn’t interested in showbusiness. In fact, the pair had fallen in love during a theatrical tour of Oklahoma.
They divorced in 1956 so Jack could marry Shirley Jones (1934-) whose career was on the upswing with appearances in the hit movie musicals Oklahoma (1955) and Carousel (1956). Jack married Evelyn Ward (no info) in 1948 and son David was born in 1950. Jack Cassidy with his first wife and son David Tryon was later the lover of gay porn star Casey Donovan (1943-87 AIDS) and Tryon’s reported death from stomach cancer was said to be AIDS-related according to those closest to him. There is a report that he had an affair with actor and writer Tom Tryon (1926-91 stomach cancer) while the two of them appeared in the 1952 theatre production of Wish You Were Here. He must have been a teenager when this happened. He told me about having an affair with Cole Porter.” He even told me he had affairs with men that was the first thing he said. He was very sexual and very up front about it. His second wife Shirley Jones said: “I was a virgin when I married Jack. The title suggests Porter really did have something for them. He made his debut as a chorus boy in the Cole Porter musical Something for the Boys In 1943. The vainglorious actor Jack Cassidy was born in John Joseph Edward Cassidy in Queens, New York in 1927 to a strict Irish Catholic father and a mother of German descent. Jack’s double roles in this film has him try to vainly save the memories of his ‘home’ before the bulldozers come and destroy it. The Phantom of Hollywood has the distinction of juxtaposing the end of the Old Hollywood and the end of Jack Cassidy’s career – although we and he didn’t know it – as it was filmed on the old MGM back-lot just as it was about to be torn down. Also, the tv movie The Phantom of Hollywood (1974 tv movie) made the previous year also helped to seal Jack as a legend, especially since he was used frequently in the tv medium throughout the 1960s and 70s. But it was his short appearance in The Eiger Sanction which was legend-making for me. He practised for the part in an episode of Get Smart in 1968 playing an interior decorator named Mr. In this film Jack plays a sleazy homosexual with such conviction you wonder if he was tapping his own inner self. One of the last movies Jack appeared in was the Clint Eastwood directed The Eiger Sanction (1975). From left: David Cassidy, Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy
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