Winnie Lightner
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Winnie Lightner （born Winifred Josephine Reeves; September 17, 1899 – March 5, 1971） was an American stage and motion picture actress.
Perhaps best known as the man-hungry Mabel in Gold Diggers of Broadway （1929）, Lightner was often typecast as a wise-cracking gold-digger and was known for her talents as a comedian and singer.
She is also noted for introducing the song "Singin' in the Bathtub" in the 1929 motion picture The Show of Shows.
Winifred Josephine Reeves was known as Winifred Hansen.
Starting off in vaudeville at age fifteen and adopting Winnie Lightner as her stage name, she was an immediate success and played the fabled Palace theater in New York City only three months after beginning her career.
With vaudeville in decline in the early 1920s, she switched to Broadway revues, where she starred in George White's Scandals of 1922, 1923, and 1924, in Gay Paree in 1925 and 1926, and in Harry Delmar's Revels in 1927.
In 1928, she made a Vitaphone short in which she sang "We Love It", "God Help a Sailor on a Night Like This", "That Brand New Model of Mine",
and "We've Got a Lot to Learn." A censorship board in Pennsylvania held up the release of the film because of the content of Lightner's songs.
According to film historian Alexander Walker, "Warners asked the censors to merely pass judgment on the visuals – the censors refused." The musical Gold Diggers of Broadway was a 1929 triumph and made her a star.
Warner Bros.
quickly signed her up for additional films.
The first of these was She Couldn't Say No （1930）, in which Lightner was cast in a maudlin dramatic role that did not suit her talents.
This was followed by Hold Ev...
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