Career
He did not begin to again work regularly in Hollywood until 1973 when his career restarted. Shelley"s onscreen work, both preand post-blacklist, was confined primarily to television Nonetheless, two career highlights remain Shelley"s enthusiastically received 1949 feature film debut in City Across the River, as well as the blacklist-related 1976 film, The Front, notable for reuniting Shelley with several fellow blacklistees, including cast members Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, and Lloyd Gough, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Martin Ritt, the latter also a fellow Actors Studio member.