Wini Shaw

Wini Shaw

Birth : 1907-02-25, San Francisco, California, USA

Death : 1982-05-02

History

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).

Profile

Wini Shaw

Movies

That's Dancing!
From 'Gold Diggers of 1935' (archive footage)
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
Hollywood Wonderland
Gypsy (clip from "Gypsy Sweetheart", 1935) (uncredited)
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
Musical Movieland
Island Princess
A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they appear to watch the filming of several productions in progress. Musical numbers from several previous Warner Bros. Technicolor shorts are edited into this short to create the illusion.
September in the Rain
Blue Dye Bottle / Morton Salt Girl (voice) (uncredited)
The rain is outdoors; the action is indoors, in a grocery store, where the characters on product labels come to life.
Melody for Two
Lorna Wray
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
Ready, Willing and Able
Jane Clarke
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Smart Blonde
Dolly Ireland
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Fugitive in the Sky
Autumn Day
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Eva Belter
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
Satan Met a Lady
Astrid Ames
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Sons o' Guns
Bernice Pearce
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
The Singing Kid
Blackface Singer
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
King of the Islands
The Island Princess
In this musical short, a shipwrecked sailor is washed up on the shores of a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful princess.
Broadway Hostess
Winnie Wharton
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Page Miss Glory
Beauty Shop Staff Member (uncredited)
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Front Page Woman
Inez Cardoza
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
In Caliente
Lois
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
The Case of the Curious Bride
Doris Pender
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
Gypsy Sweetheart
Tina
Tina (Wini Shaw), a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom (Phillip Reed) to come over to his mother's (Margaret Dumont) estate where a lawn party is in progress. She brings along her friends and a whole caravan of gypsies take over the green, telling fortunes, singing and dancing. Most of the comedy is supplied by the kleptomaniac butler,Bellingham, (Eddie Shubert) and his employer who humors his nutty ways...as good help seems to be hard to find.
Gold Diggers of 1935
Winny
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
Herself (uncredited)
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreographer Bobby Connolly working with chorus girls on production numbers. Then come some candid shots of several contract stars. Finally we see comedian Hugh Herbert filming a scene for an upcoming release, then the various behind the scenes steps that transition the raw film in the camera into the finished product.
What, No Men?
Saloon Owner
A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-female Indian tribe for study.
Sweet Adeline
Elysia
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
Wake Up and Dream
Mae LaRue
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Gift of Gab
Cabaret Singer (uncredited)
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Million Dollar Ransom
Babe
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Wild Gold
One of the Golden Girls
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
Three on a Honeymoon
Singer
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the ship's second officer. Little does she know that he has been hired by her father to keep other men away from her.
Cross Country Cruise
Singer on Bus (Uncredited)
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Cross Country Cruise
Singer on Bus (uncredited)
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.