Tarzan Movies

by | Jan 18, 2016

Tarzan Films: Weissmuller and the German-Hollywood Connection Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller > Tarzan Movies Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) published his first serialized Tarzan story in 1912, Tarzan of the Apes. The book version came out in 1914. By 1947 he had...

Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller (2)

by | Jan 18, 2016

First Film Roles Continued from Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller – Part 1. So how did the boy from Banat, Pennsylvania, and Chicago end up in the jungles of MGM and RKO? Weissmuller’s first film role was set in the jungle of New York’s Broadway. On the basis of his...

Tarzan in Acapulco

by | Jan 12, 2016

Johnny Weissmuller in Acapulco The port city of Acapulco on the Mexican Pacific coast in the state of Guerrero was Johnny Weissmuller’s favorite place to relax and get away from everything. He was known to visit the Mexican resort as often as four or five times...