Cover '77

Shelley was on the cover of the premiere issue of Women Today back in August of 1977. With the success of her 1976 Charlie perfume commercial, she had become the embodiment the new independent young woman - sexy, gorgeous, free, confident and successful all on her own - because the Charlie Girl that Shelley portrayed/projected was a women who had it all. And her 30-second spot did a lot more than promote perfume. It affected many women into thinking that they too could be a Charlie Girl, they too could have it all. Even the young Oprah Winfrey wanted to be a Charlie Girl. As Oprah confessed in 2008 when Shelley appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, "I wanted to stride like her with confidence. I wanted to be this fabulous." So it's only appropriate that Shelley graced the cover of this magazine.

Theater Stint

Shelley starred as Billie Dawn in the Pennsylvania Stage Co.'s production of Born Yesterday back in 1982. From the clipping, we can see that the play ran from September 29 to October 24 of that year and was presented at the J.I. Rodale Theater in Allentown. After her Charlie's Angels stint, Shelley went on to tackle stage and received critical acclaim in the process, especially in Born Yesterday.

A quote from The Morning Call's Sylvia Lawler's article about Shelley in 1986:

That she acquitted herself endearingly enough in "Born Yesterday" came as something of a surprise to a lot of people. She projected "a touching and engaging innocence," The Call reviewer had written. Clearly, if Hack had come to these regional hustings to learn her craft and shake that model-turned-actress image, she had done some good for herself.

Breathtaking in Pink

A Charlie perfume ad that never was...
An imagined Charlie ad with a very pink and gorgeous Shelley

As THE Charlie Girl, Shelley appeared in many Charlie Perfume ads and commercials from 1976 to 1982. The embodiment of the gorgeous, sexy young women of the day, Shelley was particularly fresh and breathtaking in this very pink 1979 promo pic for the fragrance. In fact, she's so breathtaking in it that I decided to build some art around her pic, adding some background elements and a pic of the fragrance from around that era.

 Another imagined Charlie ad...
A pic from the same pink set was used
in the September 1979 People magazine article about Shelley

Cutter To Houston Ad

Shelley with Jim Metzler and newcomer Alec Baldwin in a TV Guide ad 

for the premiere of their series Cutter To Houston in 1983

Great New Looks From Top Designers

Shelley opened the spread entitled "Great New Looks From Top Designers" which appeared on the October issue of Harper's Bazaar in 1977. She modeled the "beauty look" that Bill Blass designed for Ultima II Charles Revson (by Revlon) to go with his current collection. And along with it, she donned pieces from the Blass's 1977 fall fashion collection.

A Little Bit of Lycra

Shelley appeared in a 1975 ad for Jantzen swimwear
that "likes a little bit of Lycra in swimsuits."

Shelley Article

Shelley was the subject of this 1986 article from TV Guide where she talked about her new series Jack and Mike and expressed how she had been trying to move past her Charlie Girl/Charlie's Angels image. With her during the interview was her 80-pound German shepherd, Bear.