Bill Robinson

On stage 5 productions, 17 years

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Worked with more than once6 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast: Adelaide Hall, Bill Robinson, Aida Ward, Tim Moore, Elizabeth Welch, Mantan Moreland, Cecil Mack, Hall Johnson Choirebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Proclaiming itself “A Distinctive and Unique Entertainment with an All-Star Cast of 100 Colored Artists,” Blackbirds of 1928 was the brainchild of impresario Lew Leslie who had first exhibited a Blackbirds revue in London in 1926. Florence Mills scored such a hit in that production that Leslie planned to build a show around her in New Yor…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• C AST : Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Charlie Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Wendy Barrie, Ethel Merman, Lyda Roberti, the Nicholas Brothers, Bill Robinsonebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• He did. The most esteemed black tapper of vaudeville, Bill Robinson made a name for himself in nightclubs and on Broadway before reaching stardom beside Shirley Temple in movies like The Little Colonel, where he performed his virtuosic stair dance. Some traced the nickname Bojangles back to the French beau jongleur, meaning “juggler” or “…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
• King and Flora LeBreton were in “Present Arms,” Bill Robinson and Adelaide Hall were in “Blackbirds of 1928,” Mitzi was intheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• duced by Lew Leslie and was a sensation in its time. It starred Adelaide Hall, Tim Moore, Mantan Moreland, and Bill Robinson. Musical numbers: "Shuffle Your Feet," "Dbcie," "Diga, Diga, Do," "I Can't Give You Anything but Love," "Bandana Babies," "Porgy," "Doin' the New Low Down," "I Must Have That Man," "Here Comes My Blackbird," "The Ca…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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