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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 14, 2019 18:41:29 GMT
They are probably the best known Tarzan and Jane, but are they actually the best Tarzan and Jane?
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Post by biker1 on Nov 14, 2019 19:15:30 GMT
I was watching a movie last night that had Maureen O'Sullivan in support. Twenty years on from Tarzan, and still in fairly good shape. In Tarzan, with hardly any clothes on, she can be a tad distracting.
I don't think I know any other pairing - except Christopher Lambert & Andie MacDowell in greystoke (1984-uk).
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Post by teleadm on Nov 15, 2019 17:09:08 GMT
Johnny and Maureen were a lovely couple. Brenda Joyce just wasn't the same, even if she too was beautiful.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 15, 2019 17:14:14 GMT
They are probably the best known Tarzan and Jane, but are they actually the best Tarzan and Jane? Sure. Why not ? Who would YOU suggest as being "better" ?
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 15, 2019 17:23:17 GMT
They are probably the best known Tarzan and Jane, but are they actually the best Tarzan and Jane? Sure. Why not ? Who would YOU suggest as being "better" ? i can`t think of anyone.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 15, 2019 19:02:47 GMT
Sure. Why not ? Who would YOU suggest as being "better" ? i can`t think of anyone. Nor can I
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 15, 2019 20:19:44 GMT
I wonder how it would have been had they not decided to make his Tarzan uneducated with limited speech. I assume Jungle Jim is more like the original Tarzan conception in that sense--I need to check one of them out to compare.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 15, 2019 23:48:57 GMT
Second Most Memorable Tarzan and Jane ? I honestly do not recall who played Jane in any of the other Tarzan films or TV shows but I remember several of the Tarzans without having to IMDb them .
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Post by politicidal on Nov 16, 2019 0:06:51 GMT
Maureen O'Sullivan I think remains the best live-action Jane yet. Given Weismuller's limited dialogue (his range is debatable) she was acting for two people and did very well. Tarzan and his Mate is a great showcase for her talents.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 16, 2019 1:31:15 GMT
I wonder how it would have been had they not decided to make his Tarzan uneducated with limited speech. I assume Jungle Jim is more like the original Tarzan conception in that sense--I need to check one of them out to compare. He at least had the benefit of a fuller and more expressive vocabulary (and even piloted his own plane) if not necessarily a more expressive manner.
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 16, 2019 6:47:47 GMT
Here are a few facts and figures about the Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller.
With “Tarzan The Ape Man” (1932), Johnny Weissmuller became the first Talking Tarzan and brought the jungle adventures into the sound era. Weissmuller appeared as Tarzan in 12 feature films, more than any other actor.The first six of the dozen came from MGM. Maureen O’Sullivan played Jane is all of the MGM productions. The series then moved to RKO for the last six. Brenda Joyce was Jane in the final four. The first two from RKO had no Jane but Francis Gifford and Nancy Kelly as other characters for the female leads.
In the fourth MGM feature, Tarzen Finds A Son (1939), child actor Johnny Sheffield was added to the cast as Boy, the adopted son of Tarzan and Jane. Boy was the only survivor of a jungle plane crash. Tarzan and Jane had to get their son this way instead of having their own because, I mean, REALLY!, there they were, out there in the jungle, co-habitating and running around mostly nekkid and without the blessing of either clergy or city hall! Having an out-of-wedlock infant would have been the final straw. Sheffield remained in the cast for all but the very last feature when he was dropped for being too old at age 17. He went on to star in his own jungle features – another dozen released starting in 1949 and the last in 1955. This was the Bomba, The Jungle Boy series. The first of the series was the appropriately titled Bomba The Jungle Boy.
After Weissmuller’s 12 Tarzan’s, Gordon Scott and Lex Barker both had runs of 5 pictures. Scott is perhaps most famous as the man who royally pissed off Alfred Hitchcock by marrying Vera Miles and getting her pregnant, making her drop out of “Vertigo” – one of the most serendipitous events in movie history - The Tarzan Ape Call was a creation of the MGM Sound Department although Weissmuller could do a pretty fair version. After Weissmuller started to get a little on the heavy side, he moved to Columbia Studios who put clothes on him and called him Jungle Jim. Weissmuller invested in the Jungle Jim series which earned him a small fortune which he mostly lost through bad investments, a wild and crazy lifestyle, and five divorce settlements. However, he continued to be a popular figure into his elder years, especially with children toward whom he was very gracious and would usually belt out an Ape Call if a youngster requested it.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 16, 2019 15:49:30 GMT
Speaking of Tarzan Yells
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Post by petrolino on Nov 16, 2019 16:43:18 GMT
Gordon Scott & Eve Brent in 'Tarzan's Fight For Life' (1958) & 'Tarzan And The Trappers' (1958), with Woody Strode and Scatman Crothers
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 16, 2019 17:52:27 GMT
In the fourth MGM feature, Tarzen Finds A Son (1939), child actor Johnny Sheffield was added to the cast as Boy, the adopted son of Tarzan and Jane. Boy was the only survivor of a jungle plane crash. Tarzan and Jane had to get their son this way instead of having their own because, I mean, REALLY!, there they were, out there in the jungle, co-habitating and running around mostly nekkid and without the blessing of either clergy or city hall! Having an out-of-wedlock infant would have been the final straw. Sheffield remained in the cast for all but the very last feature when he was dropped for being too old at age 17. He went on to star in his own jungle features – another dozen released starting in 1949 and the last in 1955. This was the Bomba, The Jungle Boy series. The first of the series was the appropriately titled Bomba The Jungle Boy. The way author Gabe Essoe told the story in his 1968 book, Tarzan Of the Movies, O'Sullivan wanted out of the series and MGM relented, agreeing to kill Jane off. Boy was invented to compensate for Jane's planned absence and her death scene was shot. Edgar Rice Burroughs objected, but discovered he had no contractual authority over what the studio did with (or to) Jane. Preview audiences, however, reacted poorly and new scenes were shot to allow Jane to survive. O'Sullivan had to stick it out for only two more films before MGM abandoned the series and RKO picked it up (replacing her with Brenda Joyce), and she temporarily retired from the screen, returning in 1948's The Big Clock.
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 16, 2019 17:57:28 GMT
The way author Gabe Essoe told the story in his 1968 book, Tarzan Of the Movies, O'Sullivan wanted out of the series and MGM relented, agreeing to kill Jane off. Boy was invented to compensate for Jane's planned absence and her death scene was shot. Edgar Rice Burroughs objected, but discovered he had no contractual authority over what the studio did with (or to) Jane. Preview audiences, however, reacted poorly and new scenes were shot to allow Jane to survive. O'Sullivan had to stick it out for only two more films before MGM abandoned the series and RKO picked it up (replacing her with Brenda Joyce), and she temporarily retired from the screen, returning in 1948's The Big Clock. I didn't know that. Thanks.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Nov 16, 2019 23:53:51 GMT
The way author Gabe Essoe told the story in his 1968 book, Tarzan Of the Movies, O'Sullivan wanted out of the series and MGM relented, agreeing to kill Jane off. Boy was invented to compensate for Jane's planned absence and her death scene was shot. Edgar Rice Burroughs objected, but discovered he had no contractual authority over what the studio did with (or to) Jane. Preview audiences, however, reacted poorly and new scenes were shot to allow Jane to survive.
O'Sullivan had to stick it out for only two more films before MGM abandoned the series and RKO picked it up (replacing her with Brenda Joyce), and she temporarily retired from the screen, returning in 1948's The Big Clock. I didn't know that. Thanks. I sent you another pm since two Fridays from yesterday's Friday will be the day after Thanksgiving.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 17, 2019 0:02:25 GMT
Tarzan movies really needed one of these things
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