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Facts

Also Known As Bojangles • Luther Robinson
Born May 25, 1878 • Richmond • Virginia
Died November 25, 1949 (aged 71) • New York City • New York

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Bill "Bojangles" Robinson tap dancing on a set of wooden steps, holding a hat in one hand, in the film Hooray for Love, 1935.
Bill Bojangles Robinson and Shirley Temple tap dancing together in a barn, both smiling and raising their hands, in a scene from the film The Little Colonel.
Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple tap dancing together on a porch, with a horse and stable tack visible in the background, in a scene from The Little Colonel (1935).
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Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple
American actress and diplomat
Black and white portrait of Fred Astaire, 1936, wearing a suit, tie, and boutonniere, looking slightly to the side with a slight smile.
Fred Astaire
American dancer and singer
Overhead view of a Busby Berkeley dance sequence from Footlight Parade, showing dancers arranged in a precise, symmetrical circular formation with outstretched arms and legs.
Busby Berkeley
American director
Bob Fosse with a beard and open-collared shirt, looking to the side in a black and white publicity still from the film All That Jazz.
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, joyfully hanging from a lamppost with an umbrella during a nighttime rainstorm on a city street.
Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, and director
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers
American actress and dancer
Al Jolson stands behind Dolores Del Rio, resting his hand on her shoulder, in a scene from the 1934 film Wonder Bar; both wear formal evening attire.
Al Jolson
American singer
Fay Templeton, 1895.
Fay Templeton
American singer and actress
Mr. Entertainment
Sammy Davis, Jr.
American entertainer
Savion Glover
Savion Glover
American dancer
American singer and film actress Dorothy Dandridge, c. 1960
Dorothy Dandridge
American singer and actress
Actor Brock Peters smiling in a suit and tie at an event, with a softly blurred background.
Brock Peters
American actor
Jacob Epstein in work clothes sculpts a clay bust of actress Anna Neagle, who sits posing in a gown beside the sculpture in his Hyde Park studio.
Dame Anna Neagle
British actress
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Joseph Stein
American librettist
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Betty Comden
American songwriter
Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.
Vincente Minnelli
American director
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George Marshall
American director
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Stanley Donen
American film and dance director
Barbra Streisand in 2010, wearing a layered necklace and a black jacket, with straight shoulder-length hair, smiling slightly at an event.
Barbra Streisand
American singer and actress
Rouben Mamoulian.
Rouben Mamoulian
Georgian-born American director