Bill Robinson(1878-1949)
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- Additional Crew
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Bill Robinson quit school at age seven and began work as a professional
dancer the following year. Bojangles (the name referred to his
happy-go-lucky ebullience) starred in vaudeville, musical stage and
movies. He invented the stair tap routine and was considered one of the
world's greatest tap dancers. His film debut was in Dixiana (1930). He worked
in fifteen movies, but his movie fame came primarily from the films he
made with Shirley Temple -- Le petit colonel (1935), La petite rebelle (1935), and Mam'zelle vedette (1938). In 1989 the US
Congress named his birth date as National Tap Dancing Day.
