Johnny Weissmuller was universally idolized, both during and after his lifetime. Fans not only adored him as the greatest Olympic champion swimmer of his time, but they also remember him to this day as the greatest Tarzan of them all. Why? I have asked myself that question many times. In the documentary film Investigating Tarzan, George McWhorter, curator of the Burroughs Memorial Collection, Louisville University, Kentucky, suggested that it probably had a lot to do with the times. The more I thought about that, the more I tended to agree. My father’s classic films encompassed the period of the Great Depression in the United States, which started with the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It was not only a national economic depression, but it was also a period of emotional and mental depression for the breadwinners whose families were going without food. [download]
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