actress who played tarzan's jane
, There's movie stars and there's actors. 1  Christopher Lambert played Tarzan in a faithful adaption of Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan (book series) in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) . In MGM's sequel to the original hit, Johnny Weissmuller (title character) and Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane) having a swim and yes, she's quite naked underwater, though it's really her swim double Josephine McKim, in this restored version, not seen in 1934, of Tarzan And His Mate. >. Play Now. Actors Who Have Played Tarzan. Actors Who Wore Tarzan's Loincloth. Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) and Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) in a scene from the 1941 film Tarzan's Secret Treasure. Edgar Rice Burroughs first introduced the world to Tarzan in a 1912 issue of The All Story Magazine. The same version of Tarzan that was played at the Richard Rodgers Theatre played throughout Europe and was a success in the Netherlands. Tarzan also appeared in the Tarzan Rocks! show at the Theatre in the Wild at Walt Disney World Resort's Disney's Animal Kingdom. The show closed in 2006. By THE NEW YORK TIMES. Maureen O'Sullivan, a leading Hollywood actress in the 1930's and early 40's best known for playing Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan in the series of popular jungle adventure movies, died yesterday at the Scottsdale Memorial Hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz. She was 87. 2 Answers. , There's movie stars and there's actors. Christopher Lambert played Tarzan in a faithful adaption of Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan (book series) in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) . Brenda Joyce, who played Jane in the 1940s Tarzan movies, dies aged 92. Brenda Joyce, the only actress to play Jane with two different movie Tarzan actors, has died aged 92. Family friend, David Ragan, said she had suffered from dementia for a decade and died on July 4 of pneumonia at a nursing home in Santa Monica. Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. The character proved immensely popular and quickly made the jump to other media, first and most notably to comics and film. Answers.com® is making the world better one answer at a time. There have been several actresses to play Jane in Tarzan movies throughout the years. A few of the actresses were Maureen Paula O'Sullivan, Brenda Joyce, and Andie MacDowell. Who Played Tarzan, and When. Elmo Lincoln. Big, barrel-chested Elmo Lincoln was the first actor to bring Tarzan to the big screen, in the 1918 silent film, Tarzan of The Apes. Edgar Rice Burroughs wasn't impressed with Lincoln and didn't want him to play the role.
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