I can't help what the past generations have done. The important thing is that we have mostly changed it. South was both sadistic and kind but stopped slavery and Jim Crow. When we look at each other as people and not colors is when we will be truly equal. I take the good and ignore the bad in the old movies. As long as the bad has stopped that is all that matters. Bojangles & Shirley are perfect.
Has anyone ever seen the Shirley Temple Story. There was a lot of surpise when Shirley released her first movie that dealt with slavery, which wasn't this one, but the Little Colonol.
The war between the states was only partially about slavery. If the south had seceded then north america would have been at war with itself for two hundred years like Europe. That would not have served any purpose.
Those of you offended at the kind depiction of slavery in this story, I suggest you actually read what was written at that time by people who lived then. Think logically. If most slaves were oppressed in the way that the revisionist history books make it out, why is it that more than 80% of them adopted the religion of their masters/former masters? If you grew up in slavery and were really treated like dirt, would you want anything to do with your masters' God?
Be mad at Your own ......because Africa is the one who sold your people over here. I'm not trying to sound rude but really some people act like this never happened.
It's kind of sad that when bill died he died poor, I'm pretty sure Shirley was one of the many who attended his funeral. And yes please let's let the past stay in the past we can't change what happened and if we could that could ruin the future we have
@babybutterflyjam We can't change what happened but we must try, using all of our individual talents and resources, to heal the wounds and salve the pain of things that we whites have caused to happen to black people. Everyday each of us must think in terms of reparations and ask ourselves, "what can I do?" as we know the US govt will never do what it should do, either morally or legally, as it is an amoral institution. It is up to us.
@Tankweti1 see, i'm mixed and i see both sides, most people however mostly see me as white though, but both sides are at fault because black people shouldn't have let whites imprison them and make them feel inferior because honsetly skin color has nothing to do with anything, you get you're skin color mostly from where you live and genes do determine it too
For God´s shake, stop that crap and get over it! History is HISTORY, and we all learnt from our mistakes. Keeping alive the feeling of revenge, is like blaming the portuguese for discovering-invading BRASIL or blame the spanish for stealing gold and killing thousands of native people from their colonies... If we want to be equal, its time to move on!!! Germans can´t forget their history either, but it doesn´t mean that they shouldn´t be not allowed to be part of Europe, and travel the world!
I enjoyed this movie when my Mom first showed it to me. All the negative comments are ruining my memories. I know that the Civil War period in history was not all magnolias and finery! The past is the past. Sometimes i think those who try to apply racism/hate to things are stuck in the past! This is a movie made to be enjoyed not to be clouded with racism/hatred.
ok, i'm getting tired of all of the hate on both sides. you can't whitewash what happened, but usually, you're blaming the wrong group. there were millions of immigrants that came over long after the civil war that were economic slaves. and had nothing to do w/ the past. so get over it and appreciate the movie for what it is. if you don't like it, use your free speach, DON'T WATCH IT.
Why can't people just watch this to see the great actors, dancers and singers who are in this. No one has ever danced like Mr. Robinson and most likely never will. The past was the past so let it stay there and and enjoy entertainment for what it is. There was not beatings, bad language or murders in this movie. 'Uncle Billy" was the best dancer in his time and is still considered the best.
I don't understand the negativity? It is the old south..do you think having black children at the party would make it authentic? People were alive then who remembered it so they would know.Uncle Billy saying "I don't know what it means myself" is a sarcasm because he didn't believe it would ever happen.The little girl giving Shirley the doll just looked incredibly shy to me, not ignorant. There has been and still is slavery all over the world, not just the old south.Leave it in the past already.
@molliebean Thank You!!! It's about time that certain black people got off their high horses and let the rest of us enjoy these old innocent films. I personally enjoy Bill Robinson's singing and dancing, and have the utmost respect for what he and other blacks of the past had to go through to practice their craft.
@molliebean exactly, the old south did not have a monopoly on slavery. that has been in existence since Biblical times, not saying its right, just a fact of history. Romans and Egyptians had slaves, including white slaves. Black landowners in the south also had slaves, little known fact.
As an African American this is more than a little hard to watch this moive just makes me realize how far the film industry has come in accepting minorities. This is degrading, but whats just as hard to watch is Mickey Rooneys performance in Breakfast at Tiffanys and other parts that were meant for asians,hispanics,or native americans being portrayed by white actors
@JoiStax There are still movies created today about the Civil War. This really happened and we can't live in the past. We acknowledge that slavery happened and we movie on.
I love Shirley!always have, always will. But I can't stomach the beginning of this movie. I think it's far worse than Shirley's Kid'n'Africa that everyone complains about. Whoever wrote the script was an idiot. Adolescent can't even find the words to speak to little white mistress half her age because she's so subservient and low in intelligence; Bill Robinson as a slave man as entertainment for a children's party. The idea that a black man wouldn't even KNOW what "free the slaves" means..so sad
@PhillyCat01 I understand completely. Lots of things were dumb in 30's people also thought people who were fat "curvy" were attractive. Girls like me back then would have been considered lanky and ugly.
I am Thai,Though black skin people not good but that how I been teach, in age of 30 just have African friends,and I like and respect my friend.we all can change history ;)
@PhillyCat01 being an african american, you are the luckiest type of african in the world. In the 30's people tolarated blacks out of pitty and ingenuity. A benifit many other minorities didn't have in many other countries (Jews, for example).
So give a good "God bless America" every morning when you wake up, and stop playing the victim. That makes me sick.
@LeeMottz1 First off no one is playing the victim I understand that it's the 30's and that's how they saw us, only 70yrs removed from slavery, it just an observation. And, as for black getting pity that's the most asinine statement I've heard, as long as our skin is dark we will never get pity from anyone rather it's the 30's or 2000's.
This is my favorite Shirley Temple film! I have quite a few favorites that I like, but this is first and foremost. I laugh at the funny scenes and cry when her mother dies.
Baloney. This film is a highly romanticized depiction of the Antebellum and Civil War South. Black people were property and were treated as sub-human. The only ones trying to whitewash (and the pun is intended) history are those who do not want to face up to the fact that their ancestors did a horrible and cruel thing to another group of human beings.
Okay, let me start off by saying that I am a conservative Republican, so I am hardly a student of the school of political correctness. With that said, this movie has to be the poorest and most offensive excuse of a production that could have been concocted in Hollywood. The depiction of African-Americans is disgusting, utterly reflective of Jim Crow at its worst, and the idea that all was harmony on the plantations is even more absurd. I suppose Hollywood was always revisionist in every way.
@ligreekguy@ligreekguy I had to look at your channel I guess it's called and saw that you're 49. I doubt it. You say you find this movie offensive? I read about how proud you are of being Greek yet you leave the comment Long Live Greek Brothels on it. It's assholes like you that the comments from Roots have to be disabled from and people with real opinions can't leave them. A conservative Republican? Yeah, me too.
Sir, I did NOT leave the comment Long Live Greek Brothels on my channel, that was left by a gag responder to another comment I had made. Frankly, I do not even check that channel, as I do not even upload stuff on it, but your comment inspired me to check it. And I meant what I said about the movie, just as I think certain old movies depict white ethnic groups (Irish, Italian, etc.) in negative ways. And do not tell me what I am politically, you left wing moron.
@ligreekguy I didn't say it was you who put the brothel comment on there and if it's on there because you hadn't read it yet then I'm sorry. Also I'm not a man I'm a woman and your right. I don't know you so I have no right to say anything about your political beliefs. By the way, I'm not a left wing anything.
You know what, I was a bit regretful after I sent that response, and I apologize for the harsh and rude tone. Thank YOU for your nice response to my response. Peace, really and truly.
This scene is a fantastic illustration of the moonlight & magnolia theme of the Antebellum South. How wonderful it must have been to have lived in Dixie when cotton was king! Every aspect of the lifestyle - from the laces of ribbon on the billowing hoop skirts to the display of wealth throughout the white castle mansions, is nothing short of opulence and lavishness.... It is rebelicious!
@plantationmuscleboy Maybe if you were white! Read the Life of Frederick Douglass to get a real idea of what living in the South was like for millions of others. :( I would also venture to say that all the moonlight and magnoliaj-ness was also a myth, born of stories and hindsight. When you read about what life was really like, with child mortality, virtually no modern medicine, no air conditioning (in the South!), it hardly seems to be ideal....
@calamtykel Actually, I am white and I appreciate you leading me to Fredrick Douglas' autobio. Wow... his view of the Old South opulence is just ast fantastic as Littlest Rebel, Gone with the Wind, and the historic plantation novels I've read from the '70s & '80s. The truth is that between 1840-1860, there were more millionaires along the MS river plantation basin than anywhere on Earth. I adire the planter society. I wish the Left would swallow their own pill about tolerance and get off my back
I can't help what the past generations have done. The important thing is that we have mostly changed it. South was both sadistic and kind but stopped slavery and Jim Crow. When we look at each other as people and not colors is when we will be truly equal. I take the good and ignore the bad in the old movies. As long as the bad has stopped that is all that matters. Bojangles & Shirley are perfect.
mvies77 2 weeks ago
read your history, you will learn some thing, truth hurts.
jimmylee23 2 weeks ago
you say so
jimmylee23 2 weeks ago
Has anyone ever seen the Shirley Temple Story. There was a lot of surpise when Shirley released her first movie that dealt with slavery, which wasn't this one, but the Little Colonol.
narniaslan47 3 weeks ago
Damn Bill was a fine hoofer. Take that John Travolta!
zapkvr 3 weeks ago
The war between the states was only partially about slavery. If the south had seceded then north america would have been at war with itself for two hundred years like Europe. That would not have served any purpose.
zapkvr 3 weeks ago
Those of you offended at the kind depiction of slavery in this story, I suggest you actually read what was written at that time by people who lived then. Think logically. If most slaves were oppressed in the way that the revisionist history books make it out, why is it that more than 80% of them adopted the religion of their masters/former masters? If you grew up in slavery and were really treated like dirt, would you want anything to do with your masters' God?
Sistarovat 1 month ago 2
Be mad at Your own ......because Africa is the one who sold your people over here. I'm not trying to sound rude but really some people act like this never happened.
imaStonesFan 2 months ago 10
@imaStonesFan CANT DEAL WITH THE TRUTH
jimmylee23 2 weeks ago
@jimmylee23 Yes i can but you cant
imaStonesFan 2 weeks ago
No one here has had to pick ANY cotton ...Only from a Tylenol bottle so stop playing the victim already.
imaStonesFan 2 months ago 6
uncle billy git moves
alanzo44 2 months ago
shes soooooooooooo cute what i wouldn't give for my children to be like that
Firefury613Mitzvos 3 months ago
It's kind of sad that when bill died he died poor, I'm pretty sure Shirley was one of the many who attended his funeral. And yes please let's let the past stay in the past we can't change what happened and if we could that could ruin the future we have
babybutterflyjam 3 months ago 3
@babybutterflyjam We can't change what happened but we must try, using all of our individual talents and resources, to heal the wounds and salve the pain of things that we whites have caused to happen to black people. Everyday each of us must think in terms of reparations and ask ourselves, "what can I do?" as we know the US govt will never do what it should do, either morally or legally, as it is an amoral institution. It is up to us.
Tankweti1 3 months ago
@Tankweti1 see, i'm mixed and i see both sides, most people however mostly see me as white though, but both sides are at fault because black people shouldn't have let whites imprison them and make them feel inferior because honsetly skin color has nothing to do with anything, you get you're skin color mostly from where you live and genes do determine it too
babybutterflyjam 2 months ago
@babybutterflyjam Right. And even if the person is a bad person, it's HIS fault. Not his skin color's fault.
CasaEscobedo 1 month ago
For God´s shake, stop that crap and get over it! History is HISTORY, and we all learnt from our mistakes. Keeping alive the feeling of revenge, is like blaming the portuguese for discovering-invading BRASIL or blame the spanish for stealing gold and killing thousands of native people from their colonies... If we want to be equal, its time to move on!!! Germans can´t forget their history either, but it doesn´t mean that they shouldn´t be not allowed to be part of Europe, and travel the world!
londoneye79 4 months ago 2
If I ever lived in that day and age I would have thrown myself off a cliff.
ZephonTLucifer 4 months ago
Most amazing foot work!!
tangerinepony1962 4 months ago
I enjoyed this movie when my Mom first showed it to me. All the negative comments are ruining my memories. I know that the Civil War period in history was not all magnolias and finery! The past is the past. Sometimes i think those who try to apply racism/hate to things are stuck in the past! This is a movie made to be enjoyed not to be clouded with racism/hatred.
animehunter234 6 months ago 2
So THATS where Anne Rice got the idea for Claudia in Interview with the vampire....
MmeKimmay005 6 months ago
Love Bojangles, he was amazing. They don't make dancers like him anymore
TheSkandranon 7 months ago 3
My grandkids just love Shirley Temple movies! Thank YOU!!!
Marika5255 7 months ago
I love the black mans dancing. I don't know his name but in every movie I've seen with him, he always dances sooo awesomely. I wish I could do that.
DiamondTeardrop6 7 months ago
Is'nt one of those slaves from the little colonel?
barbiegirl11426 8 months ago
@barbiegirl11426 Yea it is Bill Robinson...aka Bojangles..great dancer of his time!!
MezzieB21 7 months ago
ok, i'm getting tired of all of the hate on both sides. you can't whitewash what happened, but usually, you're blaming the wrong group. there were millions of immigrants that came over long after the civil war that were economic slaves. and had nothing to do w/ the past. so get over it and appreciate the movie for what it is. if you don't like it, use your free speach, DON'T WATCH IT.
ajlee35 8 months ago 2
I love Shirley Temple, she is SO CUTE!!!!!
peacemaker1711 8 months ago
seems like he could of rushed over and took it *LOL*
trustinChrist08 9 months ago
omg i remember this one...
trustinChrist08 9 months ago
the color gives this film a really nightmarish and psychedelic feel
Doriamos 9 months ago
a bizarre film indeed, what a strange way of life- the peculiar institution and its adherents
Doriamos 9 months ago
Why can't people just watch this to see the great actors, dancers and singers who are in this. No one has ever danced like Mr. Robinson and most likely never will. The past was the past so let it stay there and and enjoy entertainment for what it is. There was not beatings, bad language or murders in this movie. 'Uncle Billy" was the best dancer in his time and is still considered the best.
UntouchableDillinger 10 months ago 3
2:38 hey is that for me
147kitten 10 months ago
I hate the colorized version (no pun intended)
hexum7 10 months ago
Does Anyone know the name of the song that James Henry plays while Uncle Billy DanceS?
generaltodd2 11 months ago
@generaltodd2 Turkey in the Straw. It's a classic minstrel song. I'm suprised you did not recognize it.
Banjomountain 11 months ago
the doll... it creeps me out O_O
supahkawaiiful 11 months ago
I agree Phillycat01 it is hard to watch when we're african-american I'm just glad movies aren't like this now.
AmoraAngel12 1 year ago
I don't understand the negativity? It is the old south..do you think having black children at the party would make it authentic? People were alive then who remembered it so they would know.Uncle Billy saying "I don't know what it means myself" is a sarcasm because he didn't believe it would ever happen.The little girl giving Shirley the doll just looked incredibly shy to me, not ignorant. There has been and still is slavery all over the world, not just the old south.Leave it in the past already.
molliebean 1 year ago 30
@molliebean Thank You!!! It's about time that certain black people got off their high horses and let the rest of us enjoy these old innocent films. I personally enjoy Bill Robinson's singing and dancing, and have the utmost respect for what he and other blacks of the past had to go through to practice their craft.
skudaarkaat1 4 months ago
@molliebean exactly, the old south did not have a monopoly on slavery. that has been in existence since Biblical times, not saying its right, just a fact of history. Romans and Egyptians had slaves, including white slaves. Black landowners in the south also had slaves, little known fact.
moodybluesgurl 2 months ago in playlist Shirley Temple 3
As an African American this is more than a little hard to watch this moive just makes me realize how far the film industry has come in accepting minorities. This is degrading, but whats just as hard to watch is Mickey Rooneys performance in Breakfast at Tiffanys and other parts that were meant for asians,hispanics,or native americans being portrayed by white actors
JoiStax 1 year ago
@JoiStax There are still movies created today about the Civil War. This really happened and we can't live in the past. We acknowledge that slavery happened and we movie on.
narniaslan47 3 weeks ago
Is the guy that plays her dad in this movie, also the guy that adopts her in Curly Top?
ItalianGabi5678 1 year ago
I love Shirley!always have, always will. But I can't stomach the beginning of this movie. I think it's far worse than Shirley's Kid'n'Africa that everyone complains about. Whoever wrote the script was an idiot. Adolescent can't even find the words to speak to little white mistress half her age because she's so subservient and low in intelligence; Bill Robinson as a slave man as entertainment for a children's party. The idea that a black man wouldn't even KNOW what "free the slaves" means..so sad
friendsfamilyaccount 1 year ago
Being an African American that was alittle hard to watch, but it is the 30's
PhillyCat01 1 year ago 6
@PhillyCat01 I understand completely. Lots of things were dumb in 30's people also thought people who were fat "curvy" were attractive. Girls like me back then would have been considered lanky and ugly.
RibbionsandStrings 8 months ago
@PhillyCat01 Dont worry ,native americans were played by diguised white men,at least blacks were played by black men.
mistie4444 7 months ago
@mistie4444 Tell that to Al Jolson and the men who did Amos and Andy on the radio and theater.
fourthgirl 5 months ago
@PhillyCat01
I am Thai,Though black skin people not good but that how I been teach, in age of 30 just have African friends,and I like and respect my friend.we all can change history ;)
TheMuunoi 5 months ago
@TheMuunoi so your saying "black skin people not good" when their the one's that can acutally speak and type english right so yea....your so smart!
PrincessAshley121 3 months ago
@PhillyCat01 being an african american, you are the luckiest type of african in the world. In the 30's people tolarated blacks out of pitty and ingenuity. A benifit many other minorities didn't have in many other countries (Jews, for example).
So give a good "God bless America" every morning when you wake up, and stop playing the victim. That makes me sick.
LeeMottz1 2 months ago 3
@LeeMottz1 First off no one is playing the victim I understand that it's the 30's and that's how they saw us, only 70yrs removed from slavery, it just an observation. And, as for black getting pity that's the most asinine statement I've heard, as long as our skin is dark we will never get pity from anyone rather it's the 30's or 2000's.
PhillyCat01 2 months ago
@PhillyCat01 oh PaLeez
imaStonesFan 2 months ago
Dance Mr. Bojangles Dance!
jnartist 1 year ago
I'll save you some cake, but you're not allowed in, white children only. ;)
:/
starlight104 1 year ago
Wow, that old black man sure could dance!
doobiesmoke15 1 year ago
This is my favorite Shirley Temple film! I have quite a few favorites that I like, but this is first and foremost. I laugh at the funny scenes and cry when her mother dies.
Torie3593 1 year ago
My favorite shirly temple movie! ty
202Agatha 1 year ago
Its kind of sad that stariotypes existed those days
JohannaGotTalent41 1 year ago 2
@JohannaGotTalent41 they still do today
halyie 1 year ago
is rthe man at 7:45 also in curly top?
Lea2009 1 year ago
Our history is very close to this. We don't know it because we've had a soviet-style whitewashing of history!
kenzbt 1 year ago
@kenzbt
Baloney. This film is a highly romanticized depiction of the Antebellum and Civil War South. Black people were property and were treated as sub-human. The only ones trying to whitewash (and the pun is intended) history are those who do not want to face up to the fact that their ancestors did a horrible and cruel thing to another group of human beings.
dmnemaine 1 year ago 2
Okay, let me start off by saying that I am a conservative Republican, so I am hardly a student of the school of political correctness. With that said, this movie has to be the poorest and most offensive excuse of a production that could have been concocted in Hollywood. The depiction of African-Americans is disgusting, utterly reflective of Jim Crow at its worst, and the idea that all was harmony on the plantations is even more absurd. I suppose Hollywood was always revisionist in every way.
ligreekguy 1 year ago
@ligreekguy @ligreekguy I had to look at your channel I guess it's called and saw that you're 49. I doubt it. You say you find this movie offensive? I read about how proud you are of being Greek yet you leave the comment Long Live Greek Brothels on it. It's assholes like you that the comments from Roots have to be disabled from and people with real opinions can't leave them. A conservative Republican? Yeah, me too.
hjb103055 1 year ago
@hjb103055
Sir, I did NOT leave the comment Long Live Greek Brothels on my channel, that was left by a gag responder to another comment I had made. Frankly, I do not even check that channel, as I do not even upload stuff on it, but your comment inspired me to check it. And I meant what I said about the movie, just as I think certain old movies depict white ethnic groups (Irish, Italian, etc.) in negative ways. And do not tell me what I am politically, you left wing moron.
ligreekguy 1 year ago
@ligreekguy I didn't say it was you who put the brothel comment on there and if it's on there because you hadn't read it yet then I'm sorry. Also I'm not a man I'm a woman and your right. I don't know you so I have no right to say anything about your political beliefs. By the way, I'm not a left wing anything.
hjb103055 1 year ago
@hjb103055
You know what, I was a bit regretful after I sent that response, and I apologize for the harsh and rude tone. Thank YOU for your nice response to my response. Peace, really and truly.
svbowditch76 1 year ago
@ligreekguy, ...it was the 1930's.
Kari166 9 months ago
This scene is a fantastic illustration of the moonlight & magnolia theme of the Antebellum South. How wonderful it must have been to have lived in Dixie when cotton was king! Every aspect of the lifestyle - from the laces of ribbon on the billowing hoop skirts to the display of wealth throughout the white castle mansions, is nothing short of opulence and lavishness.... It is rebelicious!
plantationmuscleboy 1 year ago 3
@plantationmuscleboy ..Rebelicious!!! I love it!
kenzbt 1 year ago
@plantationmuscleboy Maybe if you were white! Read the Life of Frederick Douglass to get a real idea of what living in the South was like for millions of others. :( I would also venture to say that all the moonlight and magnoliaj-ness was also a myth, born of stories and hindsight. When you read about what life was really like, with child mortality, virtually no modern medicine, no air conditioning (in the South!), it hardly seems to be ideal....
calamtykel 1 year ago
@calamtykel Actually, I am white and I appreciate you leading me to Fredrick Douglas' autobio. Wow... his view of the Old South opulence is just ast fantastic as Littlest Rebel, Gone with the Wind, and the historic plantation novels I've read from the '70s & '80s. The truth is that between 1840-1860, there were more millionaires along the MS river plantation basin than anywhere on Earth. I adire the planter society. I wish the Left would swallow their own pill about tolerance and get off my back
plantationmuscleboy 1 year ago
I effing love you!
SqueakerDubs 1 year ago
this is DEFINITELY one of my favorite shirley temple movies!!! :)
i love you shirley
horsters 1 year ago
Bill Bojangles Robinson portrays Uncle Billy.. famous black actor/dancer in his days..
Just look him up
ldcramer6887 1 year ago
Is Uncle Billy the same man from the little colonel?
nmaster13 1 year ago 8
@nmaster13 yes. he's also in a couple of other movies with Shirley. =)
mandyaan 1 year ago 3
@nmaster13 His name is Bill (Bojangles) Robinson; he was Shirley Temple's personal dance coach.
SouthernIowaLady 1 year ago
@nmaster13 Yes
prince12play 1 year ago
@nmaster13
Uncle Billy is Bojangles :)
sournightmares 11 months ago
@nmaster13 yes he is- billy robinson (also known as bo jangles) was a marvelous tap dancer both then and now
VampireWillowRain 10 months ago
Shirley Temple "sparkles"!!!! Never saw this before and it looks like a real treat!!!! See you at the end.
sonice2behere 1 year ago 3
@sonice2behere --- I envy you seeing this for the first time. It's a classic!
Setebos 1 year ago 2