Bill Robinson! #master #icon #legend #tapdance | Operation: Tap

#videorewindwednesday to the master Bill “Bojangles” Robinson! #tapdance #billrobinson #master (1937) | Operation: Tap

Bill Robinson in Stormy Weather (1943)! #happybirthdaybillrobinson #Repost @vintagemoviestars ・・・ Bill "Bojangles" Robinson performing the sand dance in Stormy Weather, 1943. • • • #billrobinson #oldhollywood #classichollywood #goldenage #goldenera #history #nostalgia #vintage #retro #movie #film #cinema #dance #1940s #40s | Operation: Tap

Because of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, U.S. Congress designated May 25 (Robinson's birthday) as National Tap Dance Day. Best known and the most highly paid African-American entertainer in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. Bill Robinson's long career mirrored changes in American entertainment tastes and technology. His career began in the age of minstrel shows and moved to vaudeville, Broadway theatre, the recording industry, Hollywood films, radio, and television. Bill

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, was the most famous of all African American tap dancers in the twentieth century. Dancing upright and swinging, his light and exacting footwork brought tap “up on its toes” from an earlier flat-footed shuffling style, and developed the art of tap dancing to a delicate perfection. Born Luther Robinson in Richmond, Virginia, his parents, Maria and Maxwell Robinson, died in 1885. Young Bill was reared by his grandmother, Bedilia Robinson, who had been a slave. In Richmond

"On This Day" May 25, 1878 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, tap dance pioneer and actor, is born in Richmond. | Virginia Museum of History & Culture