So, hey. I'm still reading John Taliaferro's Tarzan Forever, and when he talked about the 1934 movie Tarzan And His Mate, he happened to mention that there was a scene which was cut out prior to its release...a swimming scene featuring a nude Jane (not Maureen O'Sullivan, alas, but a very hot 24 year old stunt double named Josephine McKim ). So of course I had to check that out. And, thanks to You Tube , it was easy to find.
4 minutes later...
Very nice. Not in a smutty way (...sigh...) but still, very nice. Artsy, even. Not such a great deal for the man-loving ladies, as Tarzan kept his loincloth on and his knife sheathed. But still, Johnny was a good lookin' feller. 1
Funny, I haven't watched any of those Tarzan movies since I was a kid, but reading about them does make me want to do a little revisiting...especially of the Johnny Weissmuller ones. (He made 12 of them, you know.) Taliaferro gives JW pretty good reviews, both for his bod and his acting. Might have to go there.
In case you're interested in a map of the territories, I'll save you some Googling:
1932 Tarzan the Ape Man
1934 Tarzan and His Mate
1936 Tarzan Escapes
1939 Tarzan Finds a Son!
1941 Tarzan's Secret Treasure
1942 Tarzan's New York Adventure
1943 Tarzan Triumphs & Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1945 Tarzan and the Amazons
1946 Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
1947 Tarzan and the Huntress
1948 Tarzan and the Mermaids
And sheesh...can you imagine a series so popular that they not only makes 12 movies in 16 years, but actually release two movies in one year? That is some impressive stuff. The only thing that could possibly make Johnny Weissmuller cooler would be if he were Hungarian.
1 Not in a gay way. 2
2 Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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