The best Wini Shaw’s movies

Wini Shaw

Wini Shaw

25/02/1907- 02/05/1982
Today we present the best Wini Shaw’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Wini Shaw’s movies.
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Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/03/1935
  • Character: Winny
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

Smart Blonde

Smart Blonde
6.4/10
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

Satan Met a Lady

Satan Met a Lady
5.9/10
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

That's Dancing!

That's Dancing!
7.2/10
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.

The Case of the Curious Bride

The Case of the Curious Bride
6.6/10
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.

Ready, Willing and Able

Ready, Willing and Able
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 06/03/1937
  • Character: Jane Clarke
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

Front Page Woman

Front Page Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/07/1935
  • Character: 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.

Broadway Hostess

Broadway Hostess
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/12/1935
  • Character: Winnie Wharton
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

Sweet Adeline

Sweet Adeline
5.5/10
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.

In Caliente

In Caliente
5.9/10
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.

Fugitive in the Sky

Fugitive in the Sky
6.1/10
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.

Page Miss Glory

Page Miss Glory
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 07/09/1935
  • Character: 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.

Three on a Honeymoon

Three on a Honeymoon
6.4/10
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.

Melody For Two

Melody For Two
6.2/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 01/05/1937
  • Character: Lorna Wray
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

The Case of the Velvet Claws

The Case of the Velvet Claws
6/10
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.

Hollywood Wonderland

Hollywood Wonderland
5.4/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 09/08/1947
  • Character: Gypsy (clip from "Gypsy Sweetheart", 1935) (uncredited)
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.

Gift of Gab

Gift of Gab
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/09/1934
  • Character: Cabaret Singer (uncredited)
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

Sons o' Guns

Sons o' Guns
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/05/1936
  • Character: 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.

Cross Country Cruise

Cross Country Cruise
6.3/10
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.

The Singing Kid

The Singing Kid
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 10/04/1936
  • Character: 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.

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