Wini Shaw

Acting

Wini Shaw

Born — Died

1907-02-25 — 1982-05-02

Place of birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

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).

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 32 titles

September in the Rain poster
5.9

The rain is outdoors; the action is indoors, in a grocery store, where the characters on product labels come to life.

September in the Rain

1937

Satan Met a Lady poster
5.8

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

Satan Met a Lady

1936

Fugitive in the Sky poster
6.3

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.

Fugitive in the Sky

1936

Ready, Willing and Able poster
5.4

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

Ready, Willing and Able

1937

The CooCoo Nut Grove poster
5.7

A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John Barrymore, Harpo Marx, George Arliss, Mae West, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clark Gable, Edna May Oliver, Gary Cooper, The Dionne Quintuplets, Groucho Marx, Helen Morgan, Wallace Beery, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.

The CooCoo Nut Grove

1936

Three on a Honeymoon poster
7.0

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.

Three on a Honeymoon

1934

Gold Diggers of 1935 poster
6.4

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

Gold Diggers of 1935

1935

The Case of the Curious Bride poster
6.0

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.

The Case of the Curious Bride

1935

Gift of Gab poster
5.2

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

Gift of Gab

1934

Smart Blonde poster
6.4

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

Smart Blonde

1937

The Case of the Velvet Claws poster
6.9

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.

The Case of the Velvet Claws

1936

A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio poster
5.9

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.

A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

1935

Front Page Woman poster
5.9

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.

Front Page Woman

1935

In Caliente poster
6.7

At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.

In Caliente

1935

The Singing Kid poster
6.0

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.

The Singing Kid

1936

I Believed in You poster
7.0

An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and her new friends are all starving for their art until a kindly gent offers them financial assistant. They refuse on principle. Tragedy pays a call when the writer learns that her boyfriend has been untrue.

I Believed in You

1934

Little Me poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Little Me

1938

Broadway Hostess poster
6.0

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

Broadway Hostess

1935

Page Miss Glory poster
6.7

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.

Page Miss Glory

1935

Melody for Two poster
7.0

Tod Weaver finds his career on the skids and feels frustrated playing small-time venues. Tod is romantically tied to Gale Starr, an assistant conductor or singer who works in a top-notch club. Prompted by a helpful janitor named Exodus Johnson, Tod's band pivots to a fresh swing style featuring singer Lorna Wray. Tod's new sound skyrockets him to fame while Gale's career hits a rough patch, causing personal and romantic complications before a final reconciliation.

Melody for Two

1937

Wake Up and Dream poster
5.3

The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.

Wake Up and Dream

1934

King of the Islands poster
8.0

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.

King of the Islands

1936

Romance in the Air poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Romance in the Air

1936

Million Dollar Ransom poster
5.0

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.

Million Dollar Ransom

1934

No artwork available
5.7

Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's 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, and his employer who humors his nutty ways...as good help seems to be hard to find.

Gypsy Sweetheart

1935

Sons o' Guns poster
5.2

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.

Sons o' Guns

1936

Cross Country Cruise poster
6.7

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

1934

Sweet Adeline poster
6.8

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.

Sweet Adeline

1934

What, No Men? poster
6.0

A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-female Indian tribe for study.

What, No Men?

1935

Wild Gold poster
6.5

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.

Wild Gold

1934

Hats and Dogs poster
NR

Rags Ragland and Joey Faye adapted their famous stage routines for the film, notably performing the signature Pascooniak (later known as Floogle Street) hat company sketch. A dog destroys a man's hat. The destruction forces a comedic journey to track down the specific hat company.

Hats and Dogs

1938

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rhumba Land

1939