- Was best friends with Ruby Keeler.
- Youngest of 13 children.
- Made only one record because of a clause in her Warner Brothers contract. It was the 78 of "Lullaby of Broadway" (side A) and "I'm Goin' Shoppin' With You" (side B), Decca 408.
- She had an unexpected hit in 1976, when "Lullaby Of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) made the British record charts.
- Year of birth is sometimes given as 1899 and place of birth as Hawaii.
- At the time of her death she was survived by two children from her union with Leo Cummins: a son, James Cummins, and a daughter, Elizabeth Holding.
- Father: James Edmonds Shaw; Mother: Esther Pua Kinamu Stephenson.
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