a closeup of Shelley from a promo pic
for Jack and Mike, 1986
After leaving Charlie's Angels, Shelley was able to prove that she was a capable actress. Shelley tackled stage via plays like Vanities (1981) and Born Yesterday (1982) and was critically praised. She shined in her big screen roles in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983) and cult classics like Troll (1986) and The Stepfather (1987). In the small screen, she starred with Dick Van Dyke and Sid Caesar in Found Money (1983) and George Segal in Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer (1983). In her two other series, although short-lived (Cutter to Houston and Jack and Mike), she showed people she could act. Also, her Jack and Mike TV series may have paved the way for other yuppie series like Thirtysomething.
a writeup about Shelley from 1990
