JOHNNY WEISSMULLER #1 Merge (“Tarzan”) “Two Rare-Vintage 8×10 Photos & Autograph Matted Set”

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JOHNNY WEISSMULLER #1 Merge (“Tarzan”) “Two Rare-Vintage 8×10 Photos & Autograph Matted Set”…
**”2-Rare-Vintage Photographs**…
Note!-(“SP-Signed Photograph”) Means; An “Uninscribed” Signature (“In Ink With Good Contrast Between The Signature And The Surface Of The Photograph Or The Matted Insert Area etc…
*INCLUDES: “BLACK METAL FRAME (16×20) inches MATTED”*…
***AKA (“Tarzan”) Two Rare-Vintage Photograph/Autograph Set”***…
**Each Photograph and Autograph is Embeded in Blue Matted Form**…
*(“Photos of Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan from Tarzan and His Mate”)*…
****2nd Tarzan Film From 1934****…
**Inspected By CGP DIRECT**…
*That the Signature On This Item Is GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC…
*Certified and Signed By PATRICK DeCOLA,…
*Vice President of CGP-DIRECT “AUTOGRAPHED COLLECTIBLES”…
*Item Reference: {#18376}..CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY…

**”All OUR PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL ITEMS”***
***DESCRIPTION & INFORMATION***…
*(Title: Photograph No. 1 (Tree Photo)*…
*Photograph of Johnny Weissmuller as (“Tarzan”) from (*)Tarzan and His Mate…
*High Quality Photos – Authentic photography…

*(Title: Photograph No. 2 (Swinging Vine Photo)*…
*Photograph of Johnny Weissmuller as (“Tarzan”) from (*)Tarzan and His Mate…
*High Quality Photos – Authentic photography…

*Photo Dimensions: 2 @ 8×10 inches (20x25cm)…
*Actual Frame Size & Color: 16×20 inches – Black…

**Johnny Weissmuller (born Johann Peter Weißmüller June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an Hungarian-born American competition 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…
*He won fifty-two U.S. National Championships, set more than fifty world records (spread over both freestyle and backstroke), and was purportedly undefeated in official competition for the entirety of his competitive career…
*After retiring from competitions, he became the sixth actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs’s ape man, Tarzan, a role he played in twelve motion pictures…
*Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller is by far the best known…
*His character’s distinctive Tarzan yell is still often used in films…
*His acting career began when he signed a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and played the role of Tarzan in (*)Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)…
*The movie was a huge success and Weissmuller became an overnight international sensation…
*The author of Tarzan, 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 Weissmüller with Maureen O’Sullivan (Jane) in Tarzan’s Secret Treasure…

*Weissmuller starred in six Tarzan movies for MGM with actress Maureen O’Sullivan as Jane and Cheeta the Chimpanzee…
*The last three also included Johnny Sheffield as Boy…
*Then, in 1942, Weissmuller went to RKO and starred in six more Tarzan movies with markedly reduced production values…
*Sheffield also appeared as Boy in the first five features for RKO…
*Brenda Joyce took over the role of Jane in Weissmuller’s last four Tarzan movies (the first two RKO films had not featured Jane)…
*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 a total of twelve Tarzan films, Weissmuller earned an estimated $2,000,000 and established himself as what many movie historians consider the definitive Tarzan…
*Although not the first Tarzan in movies (that honor went to Elmo Lincoln), he was the first to be associated with the now traditional ululating, yodeling Tarzan yell…
*During an appearance on television’s The Mike Douglas Show in the 1970s, Weissmuller explained how the famous yell was created…
*Recordings of three vocalists were spliced together to get the effect‍ (A Soprano, An Alto, and A Hog Caller)…

*When Weissmuller finally left the role of Tarzan, he immediately traded his loincloth costume for a slouch hat and safari suit for the role of (*)Jungle Jim (1948) for Columbia…
*He made thirteen (*)Jungle Jim films between 1948 and 1954…

**INCLUDED**…
(1)*Certificate of Authenticity Included With This Item*…

***BASIC INFORMATION***…
Category: Entertainment…
Series: “FILM/TELEVISION/ACTOR” etc…
Film Debut: 1932…

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