Wini Shaw
Actor · 1907 – 1982 · San Francisco, California, USA
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).
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Movie6.0ComedyCrimeAfter 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 · 21 votes
Movie5.8ComedyMysteryIn 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 · 34 votes
Movie6.9DocumentaryMusicA documentary film about dancing on the screen, from its origins 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 music videos from the 80s.
That's Dancing!
1985 · 22 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935 · 58 votes
Movie5.4RomanceComedyTwo starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Ready, Willing and Able
1937 · 8 votes
Movie6.3MysteryDramaReporter 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 · 6 votes
Movie6.7ComedyMusicAt a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
In Caliente
1935 · 7 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceAce 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 · 17 votes
Movie7.2MysteryComedyPerry 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 · 6 votes
Movie7.0DramaAn 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 · 1 votes
Movie5.3DramaThe story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Wake Up and Dream
1934 · 3 votes
Movie5.9AnimationComedyThe 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 · 7 votes
Movie5.9DocumentaryThis 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 · 7 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceMelodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Broadway Hostess
1935 · 7 votes
Movie7.0RomanceComedyThis 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 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyMusicRomance in the Air
1936 · 1 votes
Movie5.6AnimationComedyA 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 · 24 votes
Movie5.2MusicComedyConceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Gift of Gab
1934 · 4 votes
Movie6.4MysteryCrimeAmbitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Smart Blonde
1937 · 13 votes
Movie6.7ComedyMusicA 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 · 7 votes
- MovieMusicFantasy
Little Me
1938
Movie6.7MusicA 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.
Musical Movieland
1944 · 3 votes
Movie5.2ComedyWarBroadway 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 · 5 votes
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceIn 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 · 1 votes