+ Johnny Weissmuller played Tarzan and no one else has been able to match it
+ In swimming, world records and won 67 Olympic medals won 5
+ In Love and Business failed, died and is buried in Acapulco, Mexico
by Hector FLORES ESPINOSA
Johnny Weismuller is remembered with pleasure because it was never able sustituírsele Tarzan on screen, and because Although several attempts were made with different actors, none of them even approached a bit like Johnny won great popularity.
Besides his Tarzan movies were very successful because they entertained young and old, sounded to many generations with his adventures in the jungle, because currently rented now remain with the ease of searching tapes old on DVD. Originally
considered as born in Austria, was actually born in Romania June 2, 1904, Johnny was before becoming an actor, a great athlete in the pool because he managed to impose 67 world records as a swimmer, and five Olympic records also winning 5 gold medals in several Olympic Games, but also won 52 U.S. championships.
The character of Tarzan, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, was a very special hero, for having come to the jungle when the plane carrying her mother fell to the jungle and all die unless the baby, he was suckled by gorillas and lived like a wild but totally dedicated to the care and protection of animals, especially to prevent them from doing harm hunters. And their way of communicating with animals was a sign and pugidos like a gorilla, but its peculiar cry that was a sign to go to protect his animal friends, was a cry-inspired yodeling that the Germans used children for generations within their games. Even today the Tarzan is one of the tones that are sold as a ringing cell phone.
This hero is a great example as a champion of ecology, became a myth in our history but also in film. His real name was Peter Jonas Wismuller and was born in a small town in Romania, which had been founded by German settlers. And the house where he was born, since 2004 when it celebrated the centenary of his birth, he got a plaque.
Thanks to his victories in swimming, and athletic and with a height of 1.91 in 1931 MGM screenwriter Cyril Hume, considered him a future movie star and then introduced him to producer Louis B. Mayer and Irving G. Thalberg, and that same year they filmed the first movie Tarzan, and premiering the magic of sound, and it was a success, "Tarzan, the Ape Man."
The last Tarzan film shot in 1955, and did not return to work in film until 1975 in a different movie. And in that year began badly for their health and in 1977 he was hospitalized victim of a stroke and cardiac arrest. As left the hospital decided to move to Acapulco, where he established his residence, accompanied by his wife. And here in Acapulco was funded died on January 21, 1984, and was buried here because they asked him. Even one of his six wives (Maria Brok, Ailene Gates, Beryl Scott, Lupe Velez, Bobe Arnst, Camilla Louire, in that order) who came to take his life, was the Mexican Lupe Vélez. And in love and in business never succeeded. However, in the sport and film success will flourish.
His son, Johnny Weissmuller Jr. made several Tarzan films, including using the voice recording of his father he shouted in jungle, but his films were successful, as they were not those made by Lex Baxter and Christhopher Lambert, Miles O'Keeffe, Casper Van Dien, among others.
simply because being the first actor of this character on screen, viewers are no longer convinced with other actors and with the upgrades that will put the character.
until Sunday. My email: hmef@msn.com
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