Christmas Countdown 1

Shelley in the 1979 Christmas version of the Charlie Perfume ad

MERRY CHRISTMAS, WORLD - Shelley appeared in Christmas versions of the Charlie perfume ad from 1978 up until 1981. The ad featured her striding that Charlie Girl stride alongside the season's most popular character, Santa Claus. Of course, as THE Charlie Girl, Shelley was dressed to the most glamorous hilt - as the season always demands. In the 1978 version, she wore an evening pants-ensemble by Sam Originals consisting of a black sequined evening jacket over a white Victorian-inspired blouse complete with matching black satin ribbon around the neck. A pair of shiny black satin slacks, two-toned evening heels and chunky glam earrings finished her look. The ad first appeared on December of 1978. But it seems Shelley became so busy with Charlie's Angels the year after that the ad ran again on December of 1979.

Girl Talk

A promo pic for Vanities entitled Girl Talk

 

Shelley starred- alongside Family Ties' Meredith Baxter and Smallville's Annette O'Toole - in the stage play Vanities back in 1981. The play was filmed for HBO's Standing Room Only and was Shelley's first attempt at stage acting. Shelley made the gutsy move to do a play right after her stint on Charlie's Angels and was successful. The play was a hit and Shelley astounded critics - she received glowing reviews for her performance. Looking back, if Shelley's acting was actually fine on Death Car on the Freeway (pre-Angels), on her Love Boat guest stint (during Angels) and on Vanities (post-Angels), how could she have been so bad on Charlie's Angels?

See & Sew Gorgeous

a closeup of Shelley from the See & Sew

pattern no. 5780 package cover, 1977

 

Shelley appeared in several pattern packages for Butterick's See & Sew in 1977. In one, she modeled pattern number 5780 - a blouse/sweater top that could be worn on its own or over something else. And Shelley was breathtakingly gorgeous in the package pic.

 

Shelley on the See & Sew

pattern no. 5780 package cover, 1977

Fall Fashions 3

Shelley appeared in the September 1975 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. In a spread called "The Best of Fall Fashions," she modeled fashions to sew, crochet and knit by Simplicity Patterns. The pictures were taken in The Old Village at the Historic Towne of Smithville in New Jersey, a restoration town "where life is lived as it was circa 1800." And Shelley looked positively lovely in the latest fall fashions for 1975.

 

Shelley modeled Simplicity pattern 7053 - a "peasant patterned long dirndl and quilted vest, in wool challis by Liberty of London" and pattern 6625 - "a puffed sleeve blouse, sewn in Landau's wool jersey."

 

Shelley modeled a crocheted, ruffled, triangular shawl

made with Columbia Minerva's Nantuk Bulky acrylic yarn.

 

Shelley in the crocheted, ruffled shawl

2012 Appearance

Shelley- still gorgeous at a Hallmark Channel event back in 2012

It's Darn Good

Shelley starred in the 1984 TV movie Single Bars, Single Women which, as one writer put it, was "darn good." The film explored the singles scene for women - post women's liberation. Women had finally come out on their own, so the rules of dating were changing... fast. No longer in need of escorts and chaperones, women could now go bar-hopping alone to meet the men they wanted to meet. Women finally had a voice and a choice.

Summer Girl 3

Shelley in a spread

for Cosmopolitan magazine, June 1978

Shelley appeared in a spread for Cosmopolitan magazine called "Turquoise... for Summer Show-offs!" in June of 1978. She modeled the latest summer fashions in, what else, turquoise. The spread was a sort of promo for her latest film If Ever I See You Again. The pics were taken at the Southampton Princess Hotel in Bermuda by her former flame Steen Svensson.

Shelley in a pic for a spread

on Cosmopolitan magazine, June 1978

In one pic, Shelley wore an "airborne cotton plisse" dress by Stephen Burrows' World. The fabulous summer outfit had a "blouson bodice" precariously held up by a piece of string and featured a "flyaway skirt." Red Cobra shell jewelry and a pair of "barefoot sandals" by Goody Two Shoes finished her look. And Shelley was gorgeous in it. In another pic, Shelley wore a voluminous crispy cotton shirt tunic (that could be worn on its own or over a skirt, leggings or pants) by Porter House. Her belt and accessories were by Greek Island Ltd. Shelley was just stunning.

Shelley in a pic for a spread

on Cosmopolitan magazine, June 1978