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Tarzan and His Mate being shown in Shanghai's Nanking Theatre. In 1932 M.G.M's Tarzan the Ape Man cost $652,675 to make, and took $2.54 million at the box office. Edgar Rice Burroughs, keen to capitalize on the success of the first film (as were M.G.M), began negotiations in March 1932 for future Tarzan films.
Critics have also commented that the other cinematic ape roles allegedly played by Nigro are documented to have been animated models (Mighty Joe Young), or were performed by known stuntmen such as Charles Gemora (The Unholy Three), Ray Corrigan (Tarzan and His Mate, Nabonga), Emil Van Horn (The Ape Man), and George Barrows (Gorilla at Large ...
The company successfully sued Gold Star Books in 1966 and forced the Tarzan series of books by Barton Werper to be taken off the market. [6] In 2004, the company threatened Victoria University Press with a lawsuit [7] over author Nigel Cox's book Tarzan Presley, which blended the Tarzan mythos with the life of Elvis Presley. The book has not ...
The Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) sequels that were produced by MGM, starred Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan, [9] were: Tarzan and His Mate (1934) Tarzan Escapes (1936) Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) The Tarzan sequels that were produced by RKO, starred Johnny Weissmuller were:
It's been nearly two months since the tragic death of actor Ron Ely. According to a death certificate obtained by TMZ, the actor, best known for NBC TV's classic 1960s adaptation of Tarzan ...
Burroughs divorced Emma in 1934, and, in 1935, married the former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt, who was the former wife of his friend (who was then himself remarrying), Ashton Dearholt, with whom he had co-founded Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises while filming The New Adventures of Tarzan. Burroughs adopted the Dearholts' two children.
A television Tarzan was Ron Ely, 86, who did his own stunts, ... Other superstars find their achievements overshadowed by controversy. ... 82, of Connecticut was the running mate of presidential ...
When Tarzan's parents are lost in Africa and presumed deceased, the older John Clayton's title passes to the line of his younger brother and thence to his nephew William, who holds it at the time we meet him in Tarzan of the Apes. William is portrayed as a well-meaning but ineffectual person with a romantic interest in Jane Porter, a member of ...