Jane Draper

Jane Sloan Draper was born 29 March 1946 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA to Andrew S. and Elizabeth (Robinson) Draper. Her father was an insurance claims manager and her mother was a homemaker. Her great-grandfather, Andrew Sloan Draper (1848-1913), was president of the University of Illinois, New York State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the first Commissioner of Education of the State of New York. Growing up in Indiana, Jane sailed, swam and rode horses. She attended Eastwood Junior High School in Indianapolis; Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York; Washington Irving High School and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, both in New York, New York. Her acting career was promising at first, but her films tended not to be released. In 1966, she was said to have been in a movie called "Felicia," but if that referred to Felicia (1964), she is not credited in the known cast and the film was not released in any case. In 1965, at the age of 19, she won the starring role of Teena in "The Teenager", which was produced by Ely A. Landau and Oliver A. Unger but also was never released, despite shooting footage in six countries and launching a publicity campaign with Draper on point. She also appeared in a re-enactment of a case study in the documentary Bold New Approach (1966), but this hour-long public service film, directed by Irving Jacoby, was distributed only to selected audiences by the Mental Health Film Board of New York, and only about 150 prints were made. Draper appeared in the stage play "Those That Play the Clowns" in New York in November 1966. The play ran only three nights, but her costars included Thayer David and Grayson Hall who were appearing on the daytime drama Dark Shadows (1966) at the time, and, just over a year later, in early 1968, Draper joined the cast of "Dark Shadows" for a role that only lasted five episodes. (She appeared as a living person in four episodes and then came back as a ghost in a later episode.) In 1979, Draper married Michigan businessman Dennis Evan Boos. She became step-mother to Mr. Boos' nine-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. By the late 1980s, however, she had gone back to using her maiden name. In the late 1980s and 1990s, she lived in Florida where she and a partner sometimes performed music locally.