Paul Draper

Paul Draper was born on Oct 25, 1909 in Italy. Paul Draper's big-screen debut came with Colleen directed by Alfred E. Green in 1936, strarring Paul Gordon.

American tap dancer who was an international star in the 1930's and 1940's. His forte was to tap-dance to any kind of music - jazz, samba, Classical, Baroque - and to adapt his every movement to the character of the music at hand. His career effectively succumbed to the anti- Communist hysteria that existed in the U.S. after World War II, when he was blacklisted out of the entertainment industry as a "Communist sympathizer."