Saturday, March 2, 2019

Superstar in 1979

Shelley and Broadway star Ben Vereen in 1979

Shelley became Charlies Angels no. 5 in 1979. Her casting immediately catapulted her to superstar status in Hollywood and she was photographed everywhere she went - even before she filmed one frame for the TV series. The paparazzi photographed her every move and she was snapped with the other stars she was with at the time. In St. Thomas, where her first Angels episode was filmed, she described, surprised, "When I got off the plane, there were maybe eight million paparazzi. I looked around for Sophia Loren. It was for me. I couldn't believe it."