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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Shirley Temple, born April 23 ... Beginning with 1935's The Little Colonel, Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson formed an extraordinary partnership, marking possibly the first time a white ...

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 ...

The Little Colonel (1935): Shirley Temple Tap Dances with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson Up the Stairs 5. Curly Top (1935): “Animal Crackers in My Soup” 6. Heidi (1937): “Magic Wooden Shoes” 7.

Toward the end of the decade, though he was now 60 years old, he was a huge success in the smash-hit production of Lew Leslie’s “Blackbirds of 1928.” In the mid-’30s he appeared at ...

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 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 ...