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* SensationalStaircaseSequence: "Jumpin' Jive," sung by Cab Calloway as the Nicholas Brothers perform what's often called "the ultimate stair dance." They dance on the floor, on the orchestra members' bandstands, and an extended series of split-leaps over each other down a giant staircase.
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* TheCameo: Music/CabCalloway! The Nicholas Brothers! Fats Waller! Ada Brown!
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From UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, comes a TwentiethCenturyFox film directed by Andrew Stone vaguely based on tap-dancing legend, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
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From UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, comes a TwentiethCenturyFox Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox film directed by Andrew Stone vaguely based on tap-dancing legend, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
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From TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, comes a TwentiethCenturyFox film directed by Andrew Stone vaguely based on tap-dancing legend, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
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From TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, comes a TwentiethCenturyFox film directed by Andrew Stone vaguely based on tap-dancing legend, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
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* CareerVersusMan: Bill wants to build a dream home for Selina and for her to quit her singing career and start a family with him. She decides not to. [[spoiler: By the end, Selina changes her mind, and decides to settle down with Bill.]]
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* CareerVersusMan: Bill wants to build a dream home for Selina and for her to quit her singing career and start a family with him. She decides not to. [[spoiler: By the end, Selina changes her mind, mind and decides to settle down with Bill.]]
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* FramingDevice: Bill tells reminisces to his neighbour’s kids, and most of the story is told in flashbacks.
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* FramingDevice: Bill tells reminisces to his neighbour’s kids, kids and most of the story is told in flashbacks.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Chick, the leader of Selina's theater troupe, and Bill's rival for his hand. He's an obvious {{Jerkass}} who never stands a chance.
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* ExactWords: Chick is intensely jealous of Bill but puts him in the show at Selina's insistence. Selina extracts a promise from Chick to put Bill "at the very top" of the show. Cut to the next scene, when he's an extra, in a perch at the very top of the set.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: What the song "Stormy Weather" is about.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Chick, the leader of Selina's theater troupe, and Bill's rival for his hand. He's an obvious {{Jerkass}} who never stands a chance.
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* {{Expy}}: Robinson plays one Bill Williamson, who hit it big in show business.
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* TitledAfterTheSong: The movie's title is taken from the 1933 Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song.
* ShowWithinAShow: Too many to count. Bill upstages one because of a {{Jerkass}} boss who won't let him show off his talented tap-dancing.
* TitledAfterTheSong: The movie's title is taken from the 1933 Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song.
* ShowWithinAShow: Too many to count. Bill upstages one because of a {{Jerkass}} boss who won't let him show off his talented tap-dancing.
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* TitledAfterTheSong: The movie's title is taken from the 1933 Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song.
TheMusical: Not a lot of story, really, but a hell of a lot of musical numbers.
* ShowWithinAShow: Too many to count. Bill upstages one because of a {{Jerkass}} boss who won't let him show off his talentedtap-dancing.tap-dancing.
* TitledAfterTheSong: The movie's title is taken from the 1933 Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song.
* TitledAfterTheSong: The movie's title is taken from the 1933 Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song.
* ShowWithinAShow: Too many to count. Bill upstages one because of a {{Jerkass}} boss who won't let him show off his talented
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky/[[TitleDrop Stormy Weather]]..."'']]
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* JukeboxMusical: A lot of popular music from the 30s and 40s is used.
* HeyLetsPutOnAShow: Cab invites Bill to do a routine for his party for soldiers going off to WWII.
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* JukeboxMusical: A lot of popular music from the 30s and 40s is are used.
* HeyLetsPutOnAShow: Cab invites Bill to do a routine for hisparty for show that's entertaining soldiers before going off to WWII.
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From TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, comes a TwentiethCenturyFox film directed by Andrew Stone vaguely based on tap-dancing legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
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From TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, comes a TwentiethCenturyFox film directed by Andrew Stone vaguely based on Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
''Stormy Weather'' (1943) follows the life and times of bumbling Bill Williamson (Bill Robinson), a dancer looking to making it big, and his relationship with beautiful singer, Selina Rogers (Lena Horne).
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From TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, comes a TwentiethCenturyFox film directed by Andrew Stone vaguely based on tap-dancing legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
''Stormy Weather'' (1943) follows the life and times ofbumbling Bill Williamson (Bill Robinson), a dancer looking to making make it big, and his relationship with beautiful singer, Selina Rogers (Lena Horne).
''Stormy Weather'' (1943) follows the life and times of
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Thin on plot, but a complete orgy of the greatest black performers (best performers, ''full stop'') of the [[TheThirties 30s]] and [[TheForties 40s]]. It has loads of classic musical numbers, [[{{Jazz}} swinging jazz]], and great tap-dance performances.
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Thin on plot, but a complete orgy of the greatest black performers (best (greatest performers, ''full stop'') of the [[TheThirties 30s]] and [[TheForties 40s]]. It has loads of classic musical numbers, [[{{Jazz}} swinging jazz]], and great tap-dance performances.
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* CareerVersusMan: Bill wants to build a dream home for Selina and for her to quit her singing career and start a family with him. She decides not to. [[spoiler: By the end, Selina changes her mind, and decides to settle down with Bill.]]
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* FamilyVersusMan: Bill wants to build a dream home for Selina and for her to quit her singing career and start a family with him. She decides not to. [[spoiler: By the end, Selina changes her mind, and decides to settle down with Bill.]]
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* FamilyVersusCareer: Bill wants to build a dream home for Selina and for her to quit her singing career and start a family with him. She decides not to. [[spoiler: By the end, Selina changes her mind, and decides to settle down with Bill.]]
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* FamilyVersusCareer: FamilyVersusMan: Bill wants to build a dream home for Selina and for her to quit her singing career and start a family with him. She decides not to. [[spoiler: By the end, Selina changes her mind, and decides to settle down with Bill.]]
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* LetsDuet: The ending musical number is about a nervous Bill unwilling to knock on a lover’s door, but he ends up singing with her anyways.
* LoveTheme: An orchestral reprise of Stormy Weather plays during the Bill’s and Selina’s break up.
* LoveTheme: An orchestral reprise of Stormy Weather plays during the Bill’s and Selina’s break up.
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* LetsDuet: The ending musical number is about a nervous Bill unwilling unable to knock on a lover’s door, but he ends up singing with her anyways.
* LoveTheme: An orchestral reprise ofStormy Weather "Stormy Weather" plays during the Bill’s Bill and Selina’s break up.
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* MockMillionaire: Bill’s friend, the shoe shiner, pretends to be a very giving millionaire in order to stop some riley showgirls from striking.
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* TitledAfterTheSong: The title Stormy Weather is taken from the 1933 Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song.
* ShowWithinAShow: Too many to count. Bill upstages one because of a jerk boss who won't let him so off his talented tap-dancing.
* TheMusical:
* TitledAfterTheSong: The title Stormy Weather is taken from the 1933 Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song.
* ShowWithinAShow: Too many to count. Bill upstages one because of a jerk boss who won't let him so off his talented tap-dancing.
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* MockMillionaire: Bill’s friend, the shoe shiner, pretends to be a very giving millionaire in order to stop some riley showgirls from striking.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Too many to count. Bill upstages one because of a jerk boss who won't let himso show off his talented tap-dancing.
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A TwentiethCenturyFox film directed by Andrew Stone vaguely based on Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
''Stormy Weather'' (1943) follows the life and times of bumbling Bill Williamson (Bill Robinson), a dancer down on his luck, and his relationship with beautiful singer, Selina Rogers (Lena Horne).
''Stormy Weather'' (1943) follows the life and times of bumbling Bill Williamson (Bill Robinson), a dancer down on his luck, and his relationship with beautiful singer, Selina Rogers (Lena Horne).
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''Stormy Weather'' (1943) follows the life and times of bumbling Bill Williamson (Bill Robinson), a dancer
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* MomentOfAwesome: The ENTIRE “Jumpin Jive” sequence with the Nicolas Brothers. AMAZING.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky/[[TitleDrop Stormy Weather]]..."'']]
A TwentiethCenturyFox film directed by Andrew Stone vaguely based on Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
''Stormy Weather'' (1943) follows the life and times of bumbling Bill Williamson (Bill Robinson), a dancer down on his luck, and his relationship with beautiful singer, Selina Rogers (Lena Horne).
Thin on plot, but a complete orgy of the greatest black performers (best performers, ''full stop'') of the [[TheThirties 30s]] and [[TheForties 40s]]. It has loads of classic musical numbers, [[{{Jazz}} swinging jazz]], and great tap-dance performances.
As of 2001, this film was put in the NationalFilmRegistry.
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!!''Don’t Know Why There’s No '''Tropes''' Up in the Sky'':
*TheCameo: Cab Calloway! The Nicholas Brothers! Fats Waller! Ada Brown!
*{{Blackface}}: Of the black minstrel kind.
*BreakUpSong: “Stormy Weather” is a classic one.
*DreamBallet: During the “Stormy Weather” number.
*FamilyVersusCareer: Bill wants to build a dream home for Selina and for her to quit her singing career and start a family with him. She decides not to. [[spoiler: By the end, Selina changes her mind, and decides to settle down with Bill.]]
*FramingDevice: Bill tells reminisces to his neighbour’s kids, and most of the story is told in flashbacks.
*JiveTurkey: Cab totally confuses Bill with some “hep” talk, and it is awesome.
*JukeboxMusical: A lot of popular music from the 30s and 40s is used.
*HeyLetsPutOnAShow: Cab invites Bill to do a routine for his party for soldiers going off to WWII.
*LetsDuet: The ending musical number is about a nervous Bill unwilling to knock on a lover’s door, but he ends up singing with her anyways.
*LoveTheme: An orchestral reprise of Stormy Weather plays during the Bill’s and Selina’s break up.
*MayDecemberRomance: Bill is a lot older than Selina.
*MockMillionaire: Bill’s friend, the shoe shiner, pretends to be a very giving millionaire in order to stop some riley showgirls from striking.
*TheMusical:
*TitledAfterTheSong: The title Stormy Weather is taken from the 1933 Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song.
*MomentOfAwesome: The ENTIRE “Jumpin Jive” sequence with the Nicolas Brothers. AMAZING.
*ShowWithinAShow: Bill upstages one
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky/[[TitleDrop Stormy Weather]]..."'']]
A TwentiethCenturyFox film directed by Andrew Stone vaguely based on Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
''Stormy Weather'' (1943) follows the life and times of bumbling Bill Williamson (Bill Robinson), a dancer down on his luck, and his relationship with beautiful singer, Selina Rogers (Lena Horne).
Thin on plot, but a complete orgy of the greatest black performers (best performers, ''full stop'') of the [[TheThirties 30s]] and [[TheForties 40s]]. It has loads of classic musical numbers, [[{{Jazz}} swinging jazz]], and great tap-dance performances.
As of 2001, this film was put in the NationalFilmRegistry.
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!!''Don’t Know Why There’s No '''Tropes''' Up in the Sky'':
*TheCameo: Cab Calloway! The Nicholas Brothers! Fats Waller! Ada Brown!
*{{Blackface}}: Of the black minstrel kind.
*BreakUpSong: “Stormy Weather” is a classic one.
*DreamBallet: During the “Stormy Weather” number.
*FamilyVersusCareer: Bill wants to build a dream home for Selina and for her to quit her singing career and start a family with him. She decides not to. [[spoiler: By the end, Selina changes her mind, and decides to settle down with Bill.]]
*FramingDevice: Bill tells reminisces to his neighbour’s kids, and most of the story is told in flashbacks.
*JiveTurkey: Cab totally confuses Bill with some “hep” talk, and it is awesome.
*JukeboxMusical: A lot of popular music from the 30s and 40s is used.
*HeyLetsPutOnAShow: Cab invites Bill to do a routine for his party for soldiers going off to WWII.
*LetsDuet: The ending musical number is about a nervous Bill unwilling to knock on a lover’s door, but he ends up singing with her anyways.
*LoveTheme: An orchestral reprise of Stormy Weather plays during the Bill’s and Selina’s break up.
*MayDecemberRomance: Bill is a lot older than Selina.
*MockMillionaire: Bill’s friend, the shoe shiner, pretends to be a very giving millionaire in order to stop some riley showgirls from striking.
*TheMusical:
*TitledAfterTheSong: The title Stormy Weather is taken from the 1933 Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song.
*MomentOfAwesome: The ENTIRE “Jumpin Jive” sequence with the Nicolas Brothers. AMAZING.
*ShowWithinAShow: Bill upstages one
