Shelley with Annette O' Toole and Meredith Baxter-Birney
in a clipping about Vanities, 1981
Shelley immediately jumped into theater-acting when she left Charlie's Angels via the play Vanities by Jack Heifner, alongside Meredith Baxter -Birney and Annette O' Toole. Staged at the Westside Playhouse in Los Angeles, the play was filmed on stage for HBO's Standing Room Only. "I don't know how I got the guts to go right into a play immediately after leaving the series," Shelley said. But her gamble paid off. Shelley won a critical acclaim for her role.
