- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- The Aristocrat of Tap
- 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."- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bill Takacs <kinephile@aol.com>
- SpouseAdelaide Ida Vosseler(July 1, 1941 - May 13, 1992) (her death)
- 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.
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