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Edythe Marjorie Shuttleworth (1907 – December 23, 1983) was a Canadian mezzo-soprano. She toured the rural areas of both Western Canada and the Central United States and was selected to sing on the first international radio broadcast to the United States from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Shuttleworth made her operatic debut in the United States with the National Opera Company at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1934 before retiring professional when she got married in 1938. A bromide print photograph of her is in the photographs collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.