Wini Shaw
Birthday: 1907-02-25
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Biography: Wini Shaw (often credited as Winifred Shaw) was an American singer, dancer, and stage and screen actress. She is today best remembered for introducing the song "Lullaby of Broadway" in the 1935 film Gold Diggers of 1935. Despite it today sometimes being stated that her maiden name was Momi, it was, in fact, Shaw (corresponding with the last name of her parents and all her siblings).
Movies
Satan Met a Lady
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress...
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Sweet Adeline
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing...
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Smart Blonde
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the ma...
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September in the Rain
The rain is outdoors; the action is indoors, in a grocery store, where the characters on product lab...
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Front Page Woman
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes wome...
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Broadway Hostess
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer....
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In Caliente
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print....
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Wake Up and Dream
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time....
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Sons o' Guns
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays t...
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Ready, Willing and Able
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in th...
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Million Dollar Ransom
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helpi...
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Fugitive in the Sky
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline host...
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, b...
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Page Miss Glory
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant cel...
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Musical Movieland
A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that ...
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Cross Country Cruise
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kill...
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The Singing Kid
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperatin...
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The Case of the Curious Bride
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China....
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What, No Men?
A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-femal...
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Gypsy Sweetheart
Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's ...
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King of the Islands
In this musical short, a shipwrecked sailor is washed up on the shores of a tropical island and fall...
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A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bro...
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Three on a Honeymoon
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress ...
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Gold Diggers of 1935
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a ...
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That's Dancing!
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie ca...
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Wild Gold
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone...
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Hollywood Wonderland
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios....
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I Believed in You
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of...
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The CooCoo Nut Grove
A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herb...
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