Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday, Miss Shelley Hack!!!
We wish you more blessings in the coming years
and more blessings to your husband Harry

and your daughter Devon Rose as well.
All our very best to you, 
from your fans all over the world

Mini Bio F: Producer

Check it out Smash Media Inc. at http://smashmediafilms.com/

In 2010, Shelley and her husband director Harry Winer formed Smash Media Inc. "Entertainment that brings people together" as it says on their website. The company has produced the documentary Citizens of the World and the Elizabeth-Berkley-starrer Lucky Christmas which aired Nov 2011 at the Hallmark Channel. Coming attractions are The Expatriate and Zombie Blondes. For a couple of years now, Shelley has been spotted attending Hallmark Channel events, assumingly, as a representative for Smash Media Inc.

Mini Bio E: Other Ventures

Shelley began delving in grassroots politics and political fund-raising in the '90s. In 1994, she set her sights on a county Democratic Central Committee seat in the Westside and San Fernando Valley district but was disqualified due to a flu and a signature-gathering technicality (her surrogate signature-gatherer didn't live in the district.) She would receive her MBA from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and, in 1997, she formed Shelley Hack Media Consultancy (SHMC,) a media consultancy firm that worked in pre- and post-conflict countries. Starting in Bosnia, where she produced their first ever televised debate, she would go into war-torn countries and help them establish democracy through media. She would later work extensively in Eastern Europe and Western Asia. She also became a member of the non-partisan Pacific Council on International Policy or PCIP, a membership-based international affairs organization bent on understanding international affairs among others. For ten years, she traveled all over the world.

Mini Bio D: A Hand in Acting

 Shelley appeared in (from left):

Annie Hall, Charlie's Angels, Vanities, 

Born Yesterday, The King of Comedy and The Stepfather

Shelley's acting career was jump-started in 1979 when she became one of Charlie's Angels. Although she stayed for only a season, it seems to be the role she is best remembered for. But that's not so bad. Being remembered as one of the heavenly beauties on television isn't such a bad gig. Besides, upon closer inspection, the series actually empowered many young girls and changed the face television forever.

Aside from Tiffany Welles on Angels, as an actress, Shelley's most notable roles (and where she was praised for her acting chops) are the following:

• her cameo in the 1977 (pre-Angels) Woody Allen film Annie Hall,
• her role as Mary in the 1981 (post-angels) Jack Heifner play Vanities,
• her 1982 performance as Billie Dawn in the Pennsylvania Stage Co.'s production of Born Yesterday, 
• her 1983 role as Cathy Long in Scorsese's The King of Comedy which starred Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis,
• and her role as Susan in the 1987 classic The Stepfather which also starred Terry O'Quinn.

 Her two other series, Cutter To Houston (1983) and Jack & Mike (1986), are a treat too.

Mini Bio C: From Part-Time to Super

Discovered at a debutante ball, Shelley started out as a part-time teen model in the '60s (she was still in school) but by 1974, she was a full-time top model. At the end of the '70s, she was a certified Supermodel. Part of the first batch of Supermodels to  have ever been under exclusive (and very lucrative) contract, Shelley's Revlon Charlie contract ran to over a million dollars. And as the breezy Charlie Girl, Shelley's smile and long-legged stride inspired many young women to live lives of unapologetic independence and fulfillment coupled with fun and fabulousness. 

In 2008, Shelley was invited to The Oprah Show to talk about her experience as THE Revlon model. "I wanted to stride like her with confidence. I wanted to be this fabulous," said Oprah. Charlie Girl Shelley Hack has become an icon."I was lucky," Shelley said, "There were two things I was in that were about making women feel a little more empowered." Guess what the other one is.

Mini Bio B: She's A Smithie

Shelley went to the prestigious Smith College, one of the Seven Sisters colleges, in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she earned a BA in  history. She graduated in 1970. Other notable "Smithies" are listed down at Moving and Living hsuan exploring the world.

Check it out at:
http://movingandliving.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/she-went-to-smith/

Mini Bio A: Connecticut-Raised Cutie

Shelley was born in White Plains, New York, on July 6, 1947 but was raised in Greenwich Connecticut where she attended Greenwich Academy, a preparatory school for girls. She is the oldest of six siblings. Her favorite childhood memory is “summer nights on the back porch talking to my two brothers and three sisters.”