Bill Robinson Movies

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley Temple

Dancing great Bill Williamson sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: Just back from World War I, he meets lovely singer...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lena Horne

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley Temple

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Trevor

Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

A talented tap dancer who can't get an audition uses his prowess at playing craps to gain ownership of a musical show, making himself the star.

Genre: Music

Cast: Bill Robinson

A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sothern

A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bebe Daniels

Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Arthur

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bill Robinson

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson made his movie acting debut in this 1932 film, featuring Putney Dandridge, James Baskett (Oscar winner for "Song of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bill Robinson

After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Shirley Temple

A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Preston Foster

Tap Dance History: From Vaudeville to Film is a collection of rarely seen original film footage from Soundies and short films of the 1930's and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Will Mahoney

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov