Biography

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.

He publicly supported the 1948 Progressive Party Presidential candidate Henry Wallace, a former vice president under FDR. Paul was also a spokesman for a committee of actors, producers and writers who opposed an inquiry by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities into communist infiltration of the film industry. However, he always denied ever having been a communist.

Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 168-169. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.