The Little Colonel, 1935 The famous stair dance made Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Shirley Temple the first interracial dance pairing in Hollywood history. Temple said in an interview that he taught her “to feel the beat, rather than count it out.” • via Instagram.com/invsout | FilmFreeway
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The Little Colonel, 1935 The famous stair dance made Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Shirley Temple the first interracial dance pairing in Hollywood history. Temple said in an interview that he taught her “to feel the beat, rather than count it out.” • via Instagram.com/invsout | FilmFreeway
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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson shows Shirley Temple how to best use some stairs in the 1935 film “The Little Colonel”.
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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson shows Shirley Temple how to best use some stairs in the 1935 film “The Little Colonel”.
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Classic Hollywood Fans on Instagram: "A talented pair! ❤️ Shirley Temple & Bill “Bojangles” Robinson do the staircase dance in THE LITTLE COLONEL (‘35). This scene is believed to be the first interracial dance to appear in an American film. Robinson later recalled that the idea for the legendary dance with Temple came to him in a dream. “I was being made a lord by the King of England and he was standing at the head of a flight of stairs. Rather than walk, I danced up.” The pair appeared in four
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