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."
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According to film critic Derek Malcom, Paul Draper was hired to co-star with Bing Crosby in Blue Skies (1946). Crosby got Draper sacked because he wanted Fred Astaire for the part.
Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 168-169.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.