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Weissmuller lived in Florida until the end of 1973, then moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as a greeter at Caesars Palace along with boxer Joe Louis for a time.
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* Johnny Weissmuller, winner in the 1920s of five Olympic gold medals in swimming and one bronze medal in water polo, and later, an actor best known for his six Tarzan movies with actress Maureen O ' Sullivan ; born in Timisoara, Romania, he lived in Windber for a few years as a child.
The early Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller featured at least partial nudity justified by the natural surroundings in which the characters lived ; in Tarzan and His Mate in 1934, Jane ( Maureen O ' Sullivan, doubled by Olympic swimmer Josephine McKim ) swims in the nude.
Weissmuller and Florida
He appeared as himself in the first of several Crystal Champions movie shorts featuring Weissmuller and other Olympic champions at Silver Springs, Florida.
In the late 60s, early 70s, Weissmuller was involved with a doomed tourist attraction called Tropical Wonderland, aka Tarzan's Jungleland, on US 1 in Titusville, Florida.
Weissmuller and until
An Olympic swimming star before World War II he broke more local, national, international and world records in swimming than any other man until the arrival of Johnny Weissmuller ( otherwise known as the original Tarzan ).
Weissmuller and 1973
It failed when Weissmuller and the owners did not see eye to eye, it was shut down for good in 1973.
In 1973, Weissmuller was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.
Weissmuller and then
The short then proceeds to showcase a large number of Hollywood stars in the form of caricatures, including Katharine Hepburn ( as a horse named Miss Heartburn ), Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, W. C. Fields, Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West, Lionel and John Barrymore, Laurel and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Fred Astaire, and George Raft.
Weissmuller and moved
In the late 1950s, Weissmuller moved back to Chicago and started a swimming pool company.
Sheffield played Boy in three Tarzan movies at MGM, and in another five after the star, Weissmuller, and production of the movie series moved to RKO.
Weissmuller and where
Sheffield was taken to an audition where Weissmuller chose him over more than 300 juvenile actors interviewed for the part of " Boy " in Tarzan Finds a Son ( 1939 ).
Following a thin start in 1947, where only the British Industries Fair and the Motor Show were contracted, Earls Court won an Aqua Show the following year featuring Johnny ‘ Tarzan ’ Weissmuller and Esther Williams.
Weissmuller and worked
) Peter Weissmuller worked as a miner, and his youngest son, Peter Weissmüller, Jr., was born in Windber on 3 September 1905.
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Hmpf But on to the frothier side Johnny Weissmuller, the only real Tarzan, telephoned Maureen O'Sullivan, his first `` Jane '' ( now at Drury Lane ) and muttered, `` Me Tarzan, this Jane ''??
As a teen Weissmuller attended Lane Technical College Prep High School before dropping out to work various jobs including a stint as a lifeguard at a Lake Michigan beach.
While working as an elevator operator and bellboy at the Illinois Athletic Club, Weissmuller caught the eye of swim coach William Bachrach.
On January 20, 1984, Weissmuller died from pulmonary edema at the age of 79.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Johnny Weissmuller has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.
After several roles there and at other movie studios, she was chosen by Irving Thalberg to appear as Jane Parker in Tarzan the Ape Man, opposite co-star Johnny Weissmuller.
O ' Sullivan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, facing the star of Johnny Weissmuller.
Celebrities who once swam at the Plunge include Esther Williams and Johnny Weissmuller.
Johnny Weissmuller, prior to his tree-swinging days in Hollywood, broke the world record at the Biltmore pool and was a swimming instructor.
In April 1942, during World War II, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Johnny Weissmuller and an outstanding amateur from Los Angeles, Johnny Dawson, played an exhibition golf match at the club.
Weissmuller and along
In his book, Tarzan, My Father, Johnny Weissmuller Jr. stated that although rumors of Peter Weissmüller living to " a ripe old age, remarrying along the way and spawning a large brood of little Weissmüllers " were reported, no one in the family was aware of his ultimate fate.
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Weissmuller would later, upon moving to the prosperous Bel Air section of Los Angeles, California, ( specifically to an area known today as East Gate Bel Air ), famously commission architect Paul Williams to design a large home with a 300-foot serpentine swimming pool that curled around the house ( and which still exists to this day ).
In 1929, Weissmuller signed a contract with BVD to be a model and representative.
Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was pleased with Weissmuller, although he so hated the studio's depiction of a Tarzan who barely spoke English that he created his own concurrent Tarzan series filmed on location in Central American jungles and starring Herman Brix as a suitably articulate version of the character.
Weissmuller starred in six Tarzan movies for MGM with actress Maureen O ' Sullivan as Jane and Cheeta the Chimpanzee.
Then, in 1942, Weissmuller went to RKO and starred in six more Tarzan movies with markedly reduced production values.
Unlike MGM, RKO allowed Weissmuller to play other roles, though a three picture contract with Pine-Thomas Productions led to only one film, Swamp Fire, being made, co-starring Buster Crabbe.
In September 1966, Weissmuller joined former screen Tarzans James Pierce and Jock Mahoney to appear with Ron Ely as part of the publicity for the upcoming premiere of the Tarzan TV series.
Knowing and being with Johnny Weissmuller during my formative years had a lasting influence on my life.
* March 25 – Tarzan the Ape Man opens, with Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the title role ( Weismuller will star in a total of 12 Tarzan films ).
After her relationship with Cooper ended, Vélez married Olympic athlete Johnny Weissmuller ( of Tarzan fame ) in 1933.
The Tarzan yell is the yodel-like call of the character Tarzan, as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, starting with Tarzan the Ape Man ( 1932 ).
MGM was searching for a suitable youngster to play the adopted son of Tarzan in its next jungle movie with stars Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O ' Sullivan.
The Aquacade was part of the Golden Gate International Exposition, and Williams was partnered with Olympic swimmer and Tarzan star Johnny Weissmuller, who, as Williams wrote in her autobiography, repeatedly tried to seduce her during the show's run.
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Johnny Weissmuller ( born János Weißmüller ; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984 ) was an American swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century.
Weissmuller was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for water polo.
Peter signed his consent for 19-year old John " Weissmuller "' s passport application in 1924, preceding Johnny's Olympic competition in France.
When Weissmuller finally left that role, he immediately traded his loincloth costume for a slouch hat and safari suit for the role of Jungle Jim ( 1948 ) for Columbia.
The famous swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, later famous for playing the role of Tarzan, was born there ( his ethnicity being German ); he emigrated to the United States as an infant, before the age of 1.
In 1949 Katzman hired Olympic hero and movie Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller ( who had been replaced by Lex Barker in the RKO Tarzan films ) for a series of Jungle Jim adventures, earning Katzman the nickname " Jungle Sam.
" By 1955 Columbia turned Jungle Jim into a television property, and when legalities prevented Columbia from making any more Jungle Jims for theaters, Katzman simply shrugged off the Jungle Jim character and had Weissmuller use his own name in three more features.
He re-optioned MGM's contract for a third Weissmuller film and approved the sale of three of Sol Lesser's remaining four options to MGM, who agreed to make a large " authorisation payment " to Burroughs.
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