When the pint-sized actress and the tap-dancing legend performed their "stair dance" in The Little Colonel, it was considered the first... Shirley Temple And Bojangles: Two Stars, One Lifelong ...

Few actresses ever had a better claim on the title of America’s Sweetheart than Shirley Temple. But her life ... The disarming innocence of her famous stair dance with Bill “Bojangles ...

If the world were good and fair, Robinson, dance royalty, would have lived in a castle with sparkling stairs — and Shirley Temple would have needed an appointment to dance one of their affable ...

Shirley Temple, the pint-sized star whose youth and ... Robinson are the main source of music in this memorable stair dance from 1935’s “The Little Colonel.” The racial politics of this ...

By Jordan Riefe Shirley Temple - S 2015 Over 550 items will be ... in which he taught her his signature stair dance in an iconic scene marking cinema’s first interracial pairing.

“Shirley Temple Black captivated audiences as an actor and her work ... steps given to her by legendary dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson for their famed stair dance routine in 1934’s “The Little ...

The young Shirley ... to Temple at the 1934 Academy Awards, the tap shoes and portable wooden practice-steps given to her by legendary dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson for their famed stair ...

and Betty wanted to be Shirley Temple. We wanted her dimples, her curls, her sparkling personality, her tap dancing and singing ability. We wanted to dance up and down the stairs like Shirley did ...

Shirley Temple ... such as song-and-dance-man Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Alice Faye, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Joan Davis, Buddy Ebsen and Frank Morgan. Temple’s best known songs are “On ...