Bill Robinson Tap Dancing in the Movies

A collection of movies featuring ? tap dancing. See also more movies with tap dancing scenes By Title and By Year Released, and By Tap Dancer.

Shirley Temple Films Co-Starring Bill Robinson
Bill Robinson's most iconic tap dancing scenes were featured in the four movies in which one of her co-stars was tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Those films included "The Little Colonel" and "The Littlest Rebel" in 1935, and "Just Around the Corner" and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" in 1938,

Bill Robinson Filmography

Hello Bill 1929

Dixiana 1930

Harlem is Heaven 1932

The Big Benefit 1933

King for a Day 1934

The Big Broadcast of 1936

The Little Colonel 1935

The Littlest Rebel 1935

In Old Kentucky 1935

Hooray for Love 1935

One Mile From Heaven 1937

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1938

Up the River 1938

Cotton Club Revue 1938

Just Around the Corner 1938

Let's Scuffle 1942

By an Old Southern River 1942

Stormy Weather 1943
Film loosely based on the life of Bill Robinson lfeaturing Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers, and Bill Robinson himself in the lead role. Stormy Weather is the film in which the Nicholas Brothers perform their most famous tap dancing in the musical number "Jumpin Jive".

1940's Bill Robinson Movies

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More About Bill Robinson Films

TITLE: Dixiana
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RELEASED: August 1, 1930
ACTORS: Bebe Daniels and Everett Marshall
NOTES: Bill Robinson appeared as a specialty dancer in "Dixiana"
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Bill Robinson Movies 1929-1943

1929 Bill Robinson Movies
"Hello, Bill" (specialty dancer)

1930 Bill Robinson Movies
"Dixiana" (specialty dancer)

1932 Bill Robinson Movies
"Harlem is Heaven" (Bill)

1933 Bill Robinson Movies
"The Big Benefit" (appeared as himself)

1934 Bill Robinson Movies
"King for a Day" (Bill Green) VIDEO #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NusZgfCQ634

1934 STEP DANCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQJzcldzAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg7ZNg1-2As

1935 Bill Robinson Movies
"The Big Broadcast of 1936"(specialty dancer)
"The Little Colonel" (Walker)
"The Littlest Rebel" (Uncle Billy)
"In Old Kentucky" (Wash Jackson)
"Hooray for Love" (played himself, danced with Jeni LeGon)

1937 Bill Robinson Movies
"One Mile from Heaven" (Officer Joe Dudley)

1938 Bill Robinson Movies
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (Aloysius)
"Up the River" (Memphis Jones)
"Cotton Club Revue" (appeared as himself)
"Just Around the Corner" (Corporal Jones)

1942 Bill Robinson Movies
"Let's Scuffle" (apopeared as himself)
"By an Old Southern River" (Specialty dnacer)

1943 Bill Robinson Movies
"Stormy Weather" (Bill Williamson)

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