has ever been out there "walking off her tired feet" like the 74-year-old Shutta." Follies was staged at the Winter Garden Theater where Shutta made her first Broadway appearance in September 1922, in The Passing Show Of 1922. Personal life In 1926 she married George Olsen, with whom she had two children, Charles (who became a theater director) and George (her son George attended school with Hal Prince, who was later to cast her in Follies). Shutta sued for divorce in 1938, stating that Olsen had deserted her as of June 10, 1937. According to The New York Times, the divorce was granted in March 1939. Olsen opened a restaurant in New Jersey that used his own recordings as background music. According to John S. Wilson in The New York Times, Olsen had a restaurant in Paramus, NJ called "George Olsen's". Wilson noted that "Olsen is there every day greeting guests at lunch and dinner... In the background, the original George Olsen records of the Twenties play softly. Death Shutta died in February 1976 in New York City in St. Clare's Hospital at the age of 79. She resided in Greenwich Village. Work Broadway The Passing Show of 1922 (1922) Marjorie (1924) Ziegfeld Follies (1924–1925) Louie the 14th (1925) Whoopee! (1928) Jennie (1963) Follies (1971) Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (1973) Film Whoopee! (1930) - Mary Custer The Playground (1965) - Mrs. Cartwright Radio The Canada Dry Ginger Ale Program, a forerunner of The Jack Benny Show (1932) Television Wagon Train (1958-1960) - Mrs. Parker / Mrs. Foster's Friend / Mildred Anderson / Woman References Sources Ted Chapin, Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003 () External links 1896 births 1976 deaths American film actresses American musical theatre actresses American radio actresses American stage actresses People from Greenwich Village Place of birth missing Vaudeville performers 20th-century American actresses 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers