1932-1934: Jungle Love
Of all the films based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan, 1932's Tarzan, the Ape Man is the best-remembered. This is thanks to the man who would be Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller, an Olympic swimmer with a body carved out of granite and the face of someone who, ten years earlier, had heard the filthiest joke ever told and was still inwardly chuckling over it. Two years later, Weissmuller and his co-star, Maureen O'Sullivan, made the pre-Code sequel, Tarzan and His Mate, which features a notorious nude-bathing scene. The story goes that handlers had to separate Weissmuller from his leading lady after every take using cattle prods and large-animal tranquilizers.
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TJM commented on 06/18
PS commented on 06/18Oh man, TJM - Phil Nugent, the author of this piece, wrote to me in a cold sweat to correct that, and I never actually made the change. But I'm proud we have readers alert enough to catch the difference. - ed.
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