List of the best Bill Robinson movies: Stormy Weather(1943), The Little Colonel(1935), Just Around the Corner(1938), In Old Kentucky(1935) ... ...
Musical
USA
1943
77 Minutes
Bill Williamson
Lena Horne Bill Robinson The Nicholas Brothers Dooley Wilson Nat Stanfield Johnny Horace Babe Wallace
dancer singer fats waller cab calloway soldier winsome spectacular music hall stage reunion aspirations performance rags to riches unlikely romance fame rise underdog love quest 1940s
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
80 Minutes
Walker
Shirley Temple Lionel Barrymore Bill Robinson Evelyn Venable John Lodge Sidney Blackmer
colonel daughter husband grandchild veteran swindler cheeky charming moving kentucky household garden staircase woods pride war culture clash family deception courage
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Cpl. Jones
Shirley Temple Joan Davis Charles Farrell Amanda Duff Bill Robinson Bert Lahr Franklin Pangborn Cora Witherspoon Claude Gillingwater Bennie Bartlett Hal K. Dawson
young girl tycoon father chauffeur janitor airy charming positive melodramatic hotel basement great depression youth optimism dance father/daughter relationship underdog rise 1930s
Shirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with bill "Bojangles" robinson. Based on paul gerard smith's book, "Lucky penny".
Comedy
USA
1935
86 Minutes
Will Rogers Dorothy Wilson Russell Hardie Charles Sellon Louise Henry Charles Richman Alan Dinehart Esther Dale Etienne Girardot John Ince Bill Robinson
Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather Ezra, and the feud is to be resolved by a... See full summary »