Born this date in 1950 was David Cassidy, teen heartthrob, singer, Partridge Family's Keith Partridge. 10 things you might not know about him.
Cassidy was born in New York City. He was the only son of actress Evelyn Ward and actor Jack Cassidy.
He first got the acting bug when his mother took him to see his father perform on Broadway, when he was three years old. He attended church with his family as a boy and sang in the church choir. In fact, he was the lead soloist for 3 years.
At 11, he had an operation on his left optical nerve which was wrapped around a blood vessel. This left him with a lazy eye when he was tired.
David’s first appearance on Broadway was in a musical called The Fig Leaves Are Falling. It was a flop.
He became famous for his role as Keith in The Partridge Family. The actress who played his mother in the show, Shirley Jones, was his stepmother in real life. Cassidy didn’t know she’d got the part until after he was cast. Luckily, the two of them got on well.
In 1974, a fan died of injuries sustained in a crush at one of his concerts in the UK. 650 more fans were injured. This affected Cassidy deeply and resulted in him leaving The Partridge Family and quitting touring.
He was allergic to Garlic.
He was married three times: to Kay Lenz from 1977 to 1983; Meryl-Ann Tanz from 1984 to 1988; and Sue Shifrin from 1991 to 2016 She was the only wife he had a child with, a son, Beau. All three marriages ended in divorce. He also had affairs, one of which, with Sherry Williams, resulted in a daughter, Katie, who followed in his footsteps and became an actor and singer. She covered one of his songs, I Think I Love You, and plays Laurel Lance/Black Canary on the TV series, Arrow.
In an attempt to break from his squeaky clean Keith Partridge persona, he posed nude for Annie Leibovitz for a photo in Rolling Stone magazine in 1972.
He played Guitar, Drums, Piano and Clarinet, which he started learning at the age of eight.
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