Shelley relaxes during rehearsals for the play Close Ties, 1983
Shelley immediately jumped into theater work after leaving the TV series Charlie's Angels in 1980. Her first was Jack Heifner's Vanities with Meredith Baxter-Birney and Annette O' Toole, where she got glowing reviews. She did a slew of other plays after that. One of them was Elizabeth Diggs' Close Ties with Kim Darby, Alan Oppenheimer and Christopher Guest. Directed by Arvin Brown, it was a play about the struggles of a New England family coping with the burgeoning senility of the clan's matriarch. It premiered on The Entertainment Channel in March of 1983.
