Saturday, May 17, 2025

2019 Cameo

Shelley in a promo pic for Charlie's Angels
with Cheryl Ladd, David Doyle, Farrah Fawcett
and Jaclyn Smith, 1979

Charlie's Angels debuted as a TV movie in March of 1976 and was immediately an audience favorite and a ratings smash. It debuted as a series on September of that same year and ran for 5 seasons... it made superstars of the six women who played the Angels (Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack and Tanya Roberts). It was such an unforgettable smash hit that in 1988 plans to reboot the series were in the works. But after Angels '88 was cast (with Karen Kopins, Claire Yarlett, Sandra Canning, and Téa Leoni as the '80s Angels), the series went through many setbacks and was eventually shelved. It was brought to the big screen in 2000 and 2003 via Charlie's Angels The Movie and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (with Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, and Demi Moore as the 2000 Angels) with great success. In 2011, it was again rebooted as a series with Charlie's Angels 2011 (with Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor, and Nadine Velazquez as the Miami Angels) but was cancelled after a short run. In 2019, it again hit the big screen with Charlie's Angels 2019 (with Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska, and Elizabeth Banks as the latest Angels) but it received mixed reviews.

screen caps of the scene
where a pic of Shelley appeared
on Rebekah's (Elizabeth Banks) tablet,
Charlie's Angels 2019

In Charlie's Angels 2019, there was a scene wherein Rebekah (Elizabeth Banks) presents photos of John Bosley (played by Patrick Stewart) with a number former Angels... "a walk down memory lane" as Rebekah put it. A photo from a 1978 Charlie's Angels promo pic was featured (with Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, and Cheryl Ladd), as well as two promo pics from Charlie's Angels The Movie (with Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu). Patrick Stewart's face was superimposed over the faces of David Doyle and Bill Murray, who both played John Bosley in the original TV series and the first two Angels movies. Another picture that appeared in the 2019 movie (if you look closely at Rebekah's tablet) is a 1979 Charlie's Angels promo pic (with Cheryl Ladd, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, and Shelley Hack). And, as with the previous photos, Patrick Stewart's face was superimposed over the face of David Doyle as well. I guess we can safely say that Shelley made a small cameo in the Charlie's Angels 2019 movie.

Shelley in a promo pic for Charlie's Angels
with Cheryl Ladd, David Doyle, Farrah Fawcett
and Jaclyn Smith, 1979