{"id":9251,"date":"2016-01-18T21:37:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T05:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.german-way.com\/?page_id=9251"},"modified":"2020-04-25T17:26:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T00:26:59","slug":"tarzan-johnny-weissmuller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Johann Peter Wei\u00dfm\u00fcller<\/h3>\n<p>Much of what we think we know about Johnny Weissmuller is wrong. The fact that he was <em>not<\/em> born in the United States was a secret the family kept and that Johnny took to his grave. Not even his own children knew that their father had been born in what is today Romania \u2013 until after Johnny <a title=\"Johnny Weissmuller's grave\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-in-acapulco\/\">died in Acapulco<\/a>. When he died in 1984, all of the obituaries listed his false birthplace in Pennsylvania, a myth that Johnny himself perpetuated. Learn more in our detailed <a href=\"#bio\">biography<\/a> below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9218\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9218\" data-attachment-id=\"9218\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/jweissmuller-publicity_250-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWeissmuller-publicity_250.jpg?fit=250%2C323&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"250,323\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"JWeissmuller-publicity_250\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;caption&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWeissmuller-publicity_250.jpg?fit=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWeissmuller-publicity_250.jpg?fit=250%2C323&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9218\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWeissmuller-publicity_250.jpg?resize=250%2C323&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Johnny Weissmuller\" width=\"250\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWeissmuller-publicity_250.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWeissmuller-publicity_250.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>An MGM studio publicity photo of Johnny Weissmuller in the 1940s.<\/strong> PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tarzan in the Movies<\/strong><br \/>\nFace it. Few of the early, black-and-white Tarzan movies even remotely approach award-winning quality; many of them are absolutely awful. And any resemblance between the multilingual, erudite Tarzan of Edgar Rice Burroughs\u2019 stories and the grunting movie caricature is extremely rare. Nevertheless, the cinematic apeman struck a chord with audiences from the very beginning (1918). But it was Johnny Weissmuller\u2019s Tarzan in the Depression-wracked 1930s and on into the 1940s that proved most enduring.<\/p>\n<p>Of the many <a title=\"Johnny Weissmuller filmography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-movies\/\">Tarzan movies<\/a> made since 1918 (authorized and not), the Romanian\/Austrian-born muscular Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller appeared in just an even dozen. But despite the numerous other celluloid dramas about the swinging King of the Jungle and the 17 other actors who portrayed him over the years, it is Weissmuller who is still most closely associated with the Tarzan character, just as Maureen O\u2019Sullivan (1911-1998) will forever be identified as Tarzan\u2019s mate, Jane. Few, if any, of the many later Tarzan films can match the character and charm of the Weissmuller-O&#8217;Sullivan films.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid #666666; width: 100%; padding: 12px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 100%;\"><strong>A Swedish Tarzan<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Austrian\/German actor <strong>Christoph Waltz<\/strong> (<em>Spectre, Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds<\/em>) plays the villain in a new Tarzan movie, starring the Swedish actor Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd in the title role. Jane is played by Australian actress Margot Robbie. A brief plot summary of THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (2016): &#8220;Many years after he left Africa behind, Tarzan (Skarsg\u00e5rd) returns to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary, unaware that he is actually a pawn in a Belgian captain&#8217;s (Waltz) deadly plot.&#8221; The Swedish Tarzan emulates Burroughs&#8217; original, erudite Lord Greystoke rather than Weismuller&#8217;s Tarzan. Waltz&#8217;s Belgian bad guy character is based on the infamous <a title=\"Web link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%C3%A9on_Rom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leon Rom<\/a> (1859-1924), an evil agent of the &#8220;Butcher of Congo&#8221; \u2013 Belgian King Leopold II. Released: July 1, 2016.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a name=\"book\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9255\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9255\" data-attachment-id=\"9255\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/bk_tarzan-my-father\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bk_tarzan-my-father.jpg?fit=333%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"333,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bk_tarzan-my-father\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;caption&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bk_tarzan-my-father.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bk_tarzan-my-father.jpg?fit=333%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9255\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bk_tarzan-my-father.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"caption\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bk_tarzan-my-father.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bk_tarzan-my-father.jpg?w=333&amp;ssl=1 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Tarzan, My Father<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tarzan, My Father<\/strong><br \/>\nKindle, Paperback, Hardcover \u2013 2008 edition<br \/>\nby Johnny Weissmuller Jr. &#8211; with a foreword by Danton Burroughs<br \/>\nWritten by Johnny Weissmuller&#8217;s son, this biography is a fascinating portrait of the most beloved Tarzan and a tale of Hollywood at its legendary peak.<br \/>\nBOOK: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MFo4bA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get this book<\/a> from Amazon.com<br \/>\nREVIEW: <a title=\"Book review\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-my-father\/tarzan-my-father-book-review\/\">Tarzan, My Father &#8211; Book Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weissmuller\u2019s Tarzan was certainly no genius. The \u201creel\u201d Tarzan hardly spoke at all, much less the English, French, German, Swahili, \u201cApe\u201d and Arabic of Burroughs\u2019 \u201creal\u201d Tarzan, unless you count \u201cUngawa!\u201d \u2013 a phrase that apparently can mean almost anything. Even O&#8217;Sullivan conceded that her onscreen mate wasn\u2019t much of an actor, but Weissmuller had a certain something that kept him in his loin clothed crusader role for a decade and a half.<\/p>\n<p>According to David Fury in <a title=\"Amazon.com\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YEao2U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Johnny Weissmuller: Twice the Hero<\/em><\/a>, producer Sol Lesser later justified the minimal dialog in his Tarzan films this way: &#8220;Tarzan is an international character and about 75 percent of the film grosses came from foreign countries during the time I was producing the films. Their demands were for action, not words. Too much dialogue would only serve to slow up a Tarzan picture and weaken its strongest appeal to the foreign theatergoer \u2013 the universal understanding of action and pantomime.&#8221; Lesser&#8217;s claim seems weak in light of the fact that Hollywood films like <em>Gone With the Wind<\/em> and others released in the same era did not have to resort to pantomime and grunts to please international audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Following the <a title=\"Johnny Weissmuller filmography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-movies\/\">Tarzan series<\/a>, he made another 16 Jungle Jim movies (\u201cTarzan with clothes on\u201d) for Columbia. Weissmuller, using his own name (for licensing reasons) rather than \u201cJungle Jim\u201d in the last three films of the series, made his final screen appearance (except for some 1970s cameos) in <em>Devil Goddess<\/em> in 1955. <a name=\"bio\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The Austro-Hungarian Germanic Connection<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_9237\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9237\" data-attachment-id=\"9237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/jwromchrch300\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWRomChrch300.jpg?fit=300%2C387&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,387\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"JWRomChrch300\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;caption&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWRomChrch300.jpg?fit=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWRomChrch300.jpg?fit=300%2C387&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9237\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWRomChrch300.jpg?resize=300%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"caption\" width=\"300\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWRomChrch300.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.german-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JWRomChrch300.jpg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Johnny Weissmuller&#8217;s only son visited Timisoara, Romania in 2002 while tracing his father&#8217;s European roots. The Tarzan actor was baptized in this church in 1904. Learn more about Johnny Jr.&#8217;s European trip in our <a title=\"Interview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-my-father\/\">interview with Johnny Jr<\/a>.<\/strong> PHOTO courtesy Johnny Weissmuller Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Johann Peter Wei\u00dfm\u00fcller<\/strong> was born on June 2, 1904 in what is now Romania but was in the year of his birth part of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg empire.[1] The boy who would later become a US Olympic swimming champion and film star \u2013 and who would later falsely claim (for Olympic reasons) Windber, Pennsylvania as his birthplace \u2013 was the son of ethnic Austrians living in <a href=\"#banat\">the Banat<\/a>, a region that, like neighboring Transylvania (<em>Siebenb\u00fcrgen<\/em> in German), had been populated with Germanic settlers as early as the 13th century. As late as 1919, the Banat&#8217;s population was an ethnic mix of Romanians, Austrians, Serbs and Hungarians, with the German-speaking Austrians comprising 23 percent of the total, second only to the Romanians in number.<\/p>\n<p>Weissmuller was born in the tiny hamlet of Freidorf (&#8220;free village&#8221; in German, Hungarian <em>Szabadfalu<\/em>) not far from Timisoara (Timi\u0219oara in Romanian; <em>Temeswar<\/em> or <em>Temeschburg<\/em> in German; 2012 pop. 306,462). Freidorf long ago became part of the city of Timisoara and now lends its name to one of the city&#8217;s 45 quarters or districts. Even today the area around Timisoara is dotted with small towns bearing German names such as Gottlob, Johanisfeld and Liebling, reflecting the German ethnic influence on the region. Weissmuller\u2019s German-speaking family left Banat for America in 1904, shortly after Johnny\u2019s birth, settling first in Pennsylvania, where many other Austrians and Germans lived (and where brother Peter was born in 1905), and later in Chicago, another Germanic stronghold and the home of Weissmuller&#8217;s maternal grandparents. The original German family name <strong>Weissm\u00fcller<\/strong> translates literally as \u201cwhite miller\u201d or \u201cwheat miller\u201d (<em>Weizen<\/em>), a typical Germanic occupational surname, like Miller in English. <a name=\"banat\"><\/a><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid #666666; width: 100%; padding: 12px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 100%;\"><strong><em>Das Banat<\/em> The Banat\/Timisoara Cinematic Connection<\/strong><br \/>\nJohnny Weissmuller is not the only Hollywood film person to come from Timisoara and the Banat. In addition to Weissmuller, silent-film actor <strong>Leo Ditrichstein<\/strong> (1865-1928) and Emmy-award-winning film director <strong>Robert Dornhelm<\/strong> (1947- ) were also born in Timisoara. The famous Count Dracula (1931) actor <strong>Bela Lugosi<\/strong> (B\u00e9la Ferenc Dezs\u0151 Blask\u00f3, 1882-1956) was born in what is now Lugoj, Romania, not far from Timisoara, but Lugosi was of Hungarian heritage, not German. The stage and film actress <strong>Zita Johann<\/strong> (1904-1993), who appeared in many Hollywood movies, including <em>The Mummy<\/em> (1932) with Boris Karloff (London-born William Henry Pratt, 1887-1969), was also born near Timisoara. Like Weissmuller, Zita Johann came to America with her family as a young child (in 1911).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Johnny was only seven months old when his family arrived in America. He grew up in German-American communities, first in Pennsylvania and later in Chicago, where he attended parochial and public schools. Although studio publicity and some Weissmuller biographies claim he attended the University of Chicago, this is not true. Weissmuller was probably a high school dropout, leaving school no later than about the time his swimming career went into high gear (10th grade), if not sooner.<\/p>\n<p>A spindly, almost skinny child (but not \u201csickly\u201d as some bios state), Johnny took up swimming as a boy. At the age of 16 he began training with Illinois Athletic Club swimming coach William Bachrach (&#8220;Big Bill&#8221;), who helped Johnny reach his Olympic potential. Weissmuller went on to win five Olympic gold medals and many other world and national swimming titles. In 1922 he set a new world record by swimming 100 meters in less than a minute. He won his gold medals in the 1924 (Paris) and 1928 (Amsterdam) Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>So how did the Olympic swimming champion become a Hollywood screen star?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Next<\/strong> | <strong><a title=\"Johnny Weissmuller bio\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller-2\/\">Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller (2)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FOOTNOTE 1<br \/>\nWhen Johnny Weissmuller was born in Austria-Hungary in 1904, the law in the region where he was born required all official documents to be recorded in Hungarian. On his birth certificate the German name &#8220;Johann&#8221; was thus recorded as &#8220;Jonas,&#8221; the Hungarian form of John, despite the fact that the Weissmullers were of Austrian, German-speaking heritage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Pages<\/strong><br \/>\nAT THE GERMAN WAY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Johnny Weissmuller bio\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller-2\/\">Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller (2)<\/a> &#8211; Part 2 of our Weissmuller biography<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Grave in Acapulco\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-in-acapulco\/\">Tarzan in Acapulco<\/a> &#8211; Johnny Weissmuller loved this port city on Mexico&#8217;s Pacific coast. He died there in 1984 and is buried there.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Johnny Weissmuller filmography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-movies\/\">Tarzan Movies<\/a> &#8211; Johnny Weissmuller&#8217;s Tarzan movies and all the Tarzan films<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Johnny Weissmuller Jr. Interview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-my-father\/\">Tarzan, My Father: Interview with Johnny Junior<\/a> &#8211; Johnny Weissmuller Jr. talks about his biography of his father and some other family matters.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Book review\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/tarzan-johnny-weissmuller\/tarzan-my-father\/tarzan-my-father-book-review\/\">Tarzan, My Father &#8211; Book Review<\/a> &#8211; Our review of Johnny Weissmulller Jr.&#8217;s biography of his father<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Featured Bios\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/featured-bios\/\">Featured Biographies<\/a> &#8211; More detailed bios of notable people from the German-speaking world<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mini Bios A-Z\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/mini-bios-a-e\/\">Mini Bios A-Z<\/a> &#8211; Brief biographies of people from the German-speaking world<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Notable Women\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/notable-women\/\">Notable Women<\/a> from Austria, Germany, Switzerland<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Famous Graves\" href=\"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/notable-people\/famous-graves\/\">Famous Graves in Germany<\/a> &#8211; Where are they buried?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;TARZAN&#8221; BIOGRAPHIES from Amazon.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Amazon.com\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MFo4bA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tarzan, My Father<\/a> by Johnny Weissmuller Jr. (Amazon.com)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Amazon.com\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YEao2U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johnny Weissmuller: Twice the Hero<\/a> by David Fury &#8211; Kindle (Amazon.com)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Amazon.com\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/31gotFf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Water, World &amp; Weissmuller<\/a> by Narda Onyx (Amazon.com) &#8211; Note: This book is largely fiction, but has become something of a collector&#8217;s item.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ON THE WEB<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnnyweissmuller.com\/biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">johnnyweissmuller.com<\/a> &#8211; A well-illustrated biography from CMG Worldwide (&#8220;dedicated to maintaining and developing a positive brand image for our client&#8221;) that contains some questionable information related to wife number five.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarzan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tarzan.com<\/a> is the official portal site of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Legal Notice:<\/strong> We are not responsible for the content of external links.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johann Peter Wei&szlig;m&uuml;ller Much of what we think we know about Johnny Weissmuller is wrong. The fact that he was not born in the United States was a secret the family kept and that Johnny took to his grave. Not even his own children knew that their father had been born in what is today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2363,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9251","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9251"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16686,"href":"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9251\/revisions\/16686"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.german-way.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}