Tarzan of the Apes | Related Titles/Adaptations
Tarzan's extraordinary popularity owes as much to his appearances in other media as it does to Burroughs's books. Nearly fifty authorized Tarzan movies starring some twenty different actors have appeared since Elmo Lincoln starred in the 1918 silent classic— one of the first films ever to gross more than a million dollars. Twelve movies released between 1932 and 1948 starred Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller and, originally, Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane. Burroughs disliked these films, primarily because of their portrayal of Tarzan as semi-articulate and uncultured, but the Weissmuller...
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