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Feb 14, 2014 · AP. When Shirley Temple Black died earlier this week, many of the tributes mentioned one of the most iconic scenes in American movie history: the staircase dance that Temple performed with...
- Elizabeth Blair
Aug 10, 2021 · Her relationship with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was like nothing that had never been seen on the silver screen before. Temple, a white actress, and Bojangles, a Black actor, shared not just the big screen together. They formed a relationship that was long-lasting, per NPR.
- Haley Van Horn
Apr 23, 2022 · The most well-known scene in "The Little Colonel" is the staircase tap dance performed between 6-year-old Temple and 57-year-old Robinson. According to the Huffington Post, this dance made cinematic history as they were the first interracial duo to tap dance as a couple on screen.
Robinson was the first black performer to appear in a Hollywood film in an interracial dance team (with Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel, 1935), and the first black performer to headline a mixed-race Broadway production.
Feb 14, 2014 · When Shirley Temple Black died earlier this week, many of the tributes mentioned one of the most iconic scenes in American movie history: 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 onscreen.
- Elizabeth Blair
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Apr 9, 2014 · Shirley Temple Black, who died Feb. 10 at age 85, performed in four movies with Robinson. Constance Valis Hill, a historian of tap dancing, wrote a 2012 piece for The Huffington Post in which she cited Robinson and Temple as a groundbreaking interracial couple.
Feb 16, 2014 · Shirley Temple and Harlem’s Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson behind-the-scenes in the film The Littlest Rebel, in1935. Mr. Bojangles was a Harlem favorite, he was a Harlem Hellfighter, he danced at the Hoofers Club, in Harlem, and was named an honorary mayor of Harlem.
