LITTLE COLONEL, THE (1935) Photo

Vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Hattie McDaniel, Bill Robinson, dir: David Butler; Twentieth Century Fox. Slight curling and minor corner wear, near fine.

Wonderful publicity portrait of one of the finest dance teams in movie history. Temple and Robinson were cast for the first time together and became movies’ first interracial dance couple.

This story, set during the American Civil War, is most famous for the staircase dance they do together. Still is coded 92/208.

-bojangles