Paul Draper

Actor

Date of birth : 10/25/1909

Date of death : 09/20/1996

City of birth : Florence, Tuscany, Italy

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."