He was also the model for Tarzan, the hero of Disney's summer movie of that name.
His covers for pulp paperback series like Tarzan and Conan helped sell millions of books.
Cheeta Tarzan's swinging friend from the black-and-white film era lives in Palm Springs, Calif.
You could swing from one to the next the way Tarzan did from conveniently located vines.
This earned him the nickname Tarzan, a moniker that has stuck to this day.
She had some alluring photos taken, was given a film test and became Tarzan's Jane.
The Tarzan films are said to be the most lucrative and longest-running series ever made.
Many would agree, among them Stalin, who would put on a show of Tarzan films for favoured visitors.
One of the couples, Tina and Tarz short for Tarzan ("My real name is Dave") even have a "couple name": Tarzina.
Johnny Weissmuller, though, was hardly the Tarzan of the books, described as an English lord fluent in six languages.
She was in some 60 films and was understandably cross that people mostly remembered her in the six she had made as Tarzan's mate.
To some extent, the show has benefited from the failure of two other Disney musicals, "Tarzan" and "The Little Mermaid, " both commercial disappointments on Broadway.
Many other Tarzan films have been made besides the O'Sullivan six.
The chimp showed up on screen alongside Johnny Weismuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in 1934's Tarzan and His Mate, and went on to make 12 movies in all.
It is the perfect place to live out a childhood Tarzan fantasy, with vast swathes of trees, vines, branches and bushes surrounding trekkers as they penetrate deep into the rainforest.
He moved on to the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, the Tarzan and Martian adventures by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the classic science fiction of Jules Verne and horror of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Certainly the most appealing feature for me was the grappling hook and rope combo -- one of many features cloned from Liero -- which allowed for humiliating, Tarzan-like, bombing raids against unsuspecting brothers and sisters.
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His early speed inevitably took its toll but he was still able to churn through his last 100 in 56.08, quicker than Johnny "Tarzan" Weissmuller's time for his back-to-back 100 meters Olympic wins in the 1920s.
There was already tremendous curiosity about the West, especially on the part of Soviet youth, voracious for movies (particularly Tarzan and westerns), music (rock and jazz, even though they were banned) and other aspects of American life.
Inner tubes can be hired in Palomino, and after an hour or two of floating, just before the cool river spits you into the warmer sea, there is a rope on the right side that you can use to do your best Tarzan flip into the water.
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