Being the girl of our wet dreams was her ticket out, and she quickly found herself in one of the first successful superhero comic book adaptations, Flash Gordon 1980.
On top of a very young Nicolas Cage, Melody goes for a ride until the cops interrupt the affair.
Melody started out as a reporter, before heading to the world of fiction in 1977 when she appeared as a Female Sweathog on the hit series Welcome Back, Kotter.