Cafe Metropole Robinson, Bill "Bojangles" performer Sawyer, Geneva performer Film 1937-05-07 Comedy/drama/romance starring Loretta Young and Tyrone Power set in Paris, where a young American (Power) is in debt to nightclub owner Monsieur Victor Lobard (Adolphe Menjou) who forces him to woo heiress (Young) in hopes of reaping her fortune. New York Amsterdam News (2/20/1937 p. 8) reported that Bill Robinson proposed that Geneva Sawyer appear with him in the film in blackface; he chose Sawyer over the possibilities of any "colored girls" who were eager for that role. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Geneva Sawyer (biography) loc.music.tdabio.167 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (biography) loc.music.tdabio.154 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.1660