Career
Shotwell was in motion pictures beginning in 1915 with roles in God"s Witness, The Taming of Mary, Under Southern Skies, and The Tale of the C. Her film career continued until the late 1920s, including Sally of the Sawdust (1925) with West.C. Fields. Her final appearances were in Running Wild (1927) and One Woman To Another (1927). Shotwell divorced Austin in 1916.
Shotwell was sued by an undertaker for $245, the amount of the burial bill.
The actress died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1934 after she was stricken while she was working in the Astoria, New York Film Studios. Shotwell was working on the George M. Cohan movie, Gambling.
She was fifty-four years old.