Shelley with the late Leonard Goldberg
Shelley was hand-picked by producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg in 1979 to become Charlie's newest Angel; and she became Tinseltown's latest superstar. Spelling-Goldberg Productions was one of the most successful production teams in the 1970s and 1980s and was responsible for TV mega-hit series such as The Rookies, S.W.A.T., Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Family, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart and T. J. Hooker, as well as numerous TV movies such as The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Death at Love House, Murder on Flight 502, Death Cruise, The Girl Who Came Gift Wrapped, Satan's School for Girls and The Great American Beauty Contest. Their productions created mega stars out of Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack, Tanya Roberts, Robert Urich, David Soul, Paul Micheal Glaser, Meredith Baxter, Kristy McNichol, Adrian Zmed and Heather Locklear, to name a few.
Shelley with Cheyl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith
Charlie's Angels season 4 circa 1979
Leonard Goldberg also produced unforgettable hits such as Paper Dolls, War Games (which made Matthew Broderick a star), Space Camp (which was directed by Shelley's future husband Harry Winer), the Julia Roberts starrer Sleeping with the Enemy, Double Jeopardy which starred Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd, as well as all the iterations of Charlie's Angels since the original series' demise. Like Aaron Spelling, the late Len Goldberg, who passed away Last Dec 4, was a star-maker too, and he will be always be remembered with fondness as the producer of the legendary 1970s series Charlie's Angels.
