He was a 57-year-old Black man, she was six years old and white. Together, they danced into history as the first interracial tap-dancing couple in 1935’s The Little Colonel. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson called Shirley Temple his "darlin’". He was "Uncle Billy" to her. They would act and dance in three other films – The Littlest Rebel (in This video), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and Just Around the Corner. While Robinson was a star onstage in minstrel shows and vaudeville, he did not become famous as a Hollywood movie star until his collaboration with Temple.
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