Ethel Shutta, best remembered as
Eddie Cantor's nurse in his movie
Whoopee! (1930) was in
the 1920s a well-known stage actress. She was married with the band
leader
George Olsen, with whom she also sang in clubs and on radio. In the
late 1930s she worked on her own as a singer, made a Broadway comebacks
in 1943 and later in 1963 and 1971.