And I liked people like that. And Bill Robinson was the best of all." Robinson died in 1949. It makes sense that he and Shirley Temple would get along so well. She was "Little Miss Sunshine ...

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Child star Shirley Temple Black’s life may have taken ... her on-screen relationship with tap dance master Bill “Bojangles” Robinson is one of her most enduring. Numerous obituaries never ...

Melissa Joan Hart was slammed for a post showing a 1935 post of Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel amid the Black Lives Matter movement. The 44-year-old was apparently trying ...

It depicted Temple dancing with a Black actor: Bill Robinson. NPR says their dance together was the first interracial dance in film history. In the modern day, such a dance sequence probably ...

Shirley Temple Black has died ... (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) BLACK: Bill Robinson was probably my best dance teacher and best friend when I was a little girl, and I would learn dancing ...

Shirley Temple and Jean Hersholt in “Heidi ... She teamed with the great black dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson in two 1935 films with Civil War themes, “The Little Colonel” and ...

GOOD MORNING: Showtime sent Shirley Temple clips in which she’s portrayed (by Lea Golde) in “Bojangles” (the story of Bill Robinson as played by Gregory Hines) airing Saturday. Temple tells ...

Edgar Hoover gave her a tour of headquarters in Washington, D.C. In 1935's "The Little Colonel," Shirley Temple teamed with the great African-American dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.

Shirley Temple's stardom falls into the latter category ... "The Littlest Rebel" (1935): Shirley dances with Bill Robinson on the old plantation. Later she and Abraham Lincoln straighten out ...

Shirley Temple And Bojangles ... the staircase dance that Temple performed with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the 1935 movie The Little Colonel. They were the first interracial couple to dance ...