Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Jungle Girl's official release date is 21 June 1941, although this is actually the date the seventh chapter was made available to film exchanges. [1] The serial was re-released on 19 April 1947 between the first runs of Son of Zorro and Jesse James Rides Again. It was the first Republic serial to be re-released in this way. [1]
Nyoka the Jungle Girl is a fictional character created for the screen in the 1941 serial Jungle Girl, starring Frances Gifford as Nyoka Meredith. After the initial film, Nyoka appeared in comic books published by Fawcett , Charlton , and AC Comics .
Burroughs started the novel in 1929 (2 October) under the working title The Dancing Girl of the Leper King. It was first run serially in five installments from May to September 1931 by Blue Book Magazine under the title The Land of Hidden Men. [1] The book version was first published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., on 15 April 1932.
Jim Harmon and Donald F. Glut have written that Perils of Nyoka was probably the best jungle-type serial ever made and that it "lavished in increased production values". [5] Cline noted that Perils of Nyoka stood out in the memories of the original serial audiences, despite the strong competition of 1942.
Rima as first glimpsed by Abel (and comic book readers) in the 1951 Classics Illustrated adaptation, published in 1952.. Rima, also known as Rima the Jungle Girl, is the fictional heroine of W. H. Hudson's 1904 novel Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest.
Charles Edward Russell (September 25, 1860 – April 23, 1941) was an American journalist, opinion columnist, newspaper editor, and political activist. The author of a number of books of biography and social commentary, he won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
A prototypical version of the jungle girl was the ancient but eternally youthful sorceress Ayesha in H. Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure (1886). The first forest-dwelling character in fiction was Rima from W. H. Hudson's 1904 novel Green Mansions.