Wini Shaw
Date of birth: 1907-02-25
Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Winifred Lei Momi Shaw, Winifred Shaw
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).
Movie Credits
Satan Met a Lady
1936-07-22
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress
Sweet Adeline
1934-12-29
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing
Smart Blonde
1937-01-02
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the ma
September in the Rain
1937-12-17
The rain is outdoors; the action is indoors, in a grocery store, where the characters on product lab
Front Page Woman
1935-07-11
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes wome
Broadway Hostess
1935-12-07
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Melody for Two
1937-05-01
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
In Caliente
1935-05-25
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
Wake Up and Dream
1934-10-01
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Sons o' Guns
1936-05-13
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays t
Ready, Willing and Able
1937-03-06
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in th
Million Dollar Ransom
1934-09-01
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helpi
Fugitive in the Sky
1936-11-28
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline host
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936-07-03
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, b
Page Miss Glory
1935-09-07
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant cel
Musical Movieland
1944-09-09
A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that
Cross Country Cruise
1934-01-16
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kill
The Singing Kid
1936-04-10
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperatin
Gift of Gab
1934-09-01
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
The Case of the Curious Bride
1935-04-13
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China.
Gypsy Sweetheart
1935-03-30
Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's
What, No Men?
1935-01-05
A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-femal
King of the Islands
1936-02-22
In this musical short, a shipwrecked sailor is washed up on the shores of a tropical island and fall
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
1935-02-02
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bro
Three on a Honeymoon
1934-03-22
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935-03-15
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a
That's Dancing!
1985-01-18
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie ca
Wild Gold
1934-06-08
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone
Hollywood Wonderland
1947-08-09
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
I Believed in You
1934-04-09
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of
Romance in the Air
1936-05-16
The CooCoo Nut Grove
1936-11-28
A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herb
Little Me
1938-03-05
Hats and Dogs
1938-12-31
Rhumba Land
1939-11-18