Bojangles
Drama
Romance
TV Movie
2001
101 min
NR
The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his generation. At the peak of his career, he was the highest paid Black entertainer, but for all the joy he gave others, his life was anything but happy, there was a great deal of tragedy in himself. He died broke and penniless.
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"Bill Robinson, the tap dancer who starred in a few films with Shirley Temple, and had a successful but turbulent career, is played respectably and realistically by Gregory Hines. I watched this movie many years after seeing it, and I am still impressed by Hines performance. It is also a sad portrait of trying to have success while encountering racism at every turn. But Bill Robinson tried to make the best of his talent."
Errika Mason
