To celebrate Bill “Bojangles” Robinson birthday I watched Just Around The Corner. Bill Robinson plays a doorman at a post New York City Hotel. What a great dancer. I noticed the same thing with Bill that I noticed with Gene Kelly. The floor around their feet, where they danced was worn as though they practiced, over and over and over. I wished there were more films available that he was featured.
I read Shirley Temple’s autobiography Child Star. In The Little Cornel, “Uncle Billy” as Shirley called him and Shirley touched fingers in the staircase dance. In the United States those scenes were edited so they did not touch. They were the first inter-racial dancing couple in movie history.
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