Reta Shaw

There are actresses who are always remembered for play certain types of roles. Reta Shaw is one of those actresses she was always a tough as nails housekeeper. Her career started in Boston n the stage and eventually she was in New York on Broadway playing in the "Pajama Game" as Mabel the bossy woman at the factory. She moved onto television and the movies. She played housekeepers and busy bodies and bossy wives. She is remembered at playing one of the singing domestics in "Mary Poppins" and Housekeeper Martha on "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir". Shaw worked all the time appearing on sitcoms and in small rolls in movies until her death in 1982. Reta Shaw was 69 years ols at the time of her death