Johnny Weissmüller

Tarzan: the super hero who never goes out of fashion. The son of British Royalty, he is raised by apes in the African jungle and finds his true love, Jane. Swinging through trees, communicating with wild animals, he is exotic, entertaining and accessible. This film recounts the birth of the character in the mind of Edgar Rice Burroughs and how each generation has reinvented and reinterpreted him.

The One, The Only, The Real Tarzan is a compelling look at the turbulent life of Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic champion who became the most famous Tarzan of the movies.

A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.

Hollywood, año 1924. La dulce Estie llega a la ciudad soñando con convertirse en una estrella de cine. Pero no será sencillo de conseguir triunfar en la meca del cine, aunque ella y el perro Won Ton Ton harán todo lo posible por conseguirlo.

Segunda parte de "Érase una vez en Hollywood". A diferencia del primer documental, sólo hay dos narradores: Gene Kelly y Fred Astaire. Incluye escenas de comedias y dramas en los que intervienen los hermanos Marx, Laurel y Hardy o Katharine Hepburn.

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

In order to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers, a cop is sent undercover to participate in a drag-queen beauty contest aboard a cruise ship.

Una banda de rock es enviada a Albania con el fin de localizar a unos estadounidenses secuestrados en un alejado castillo.

A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

Jungle-Jim type Johnny Weissmuller helps Professor Blakely look for a missing colleague who is now playing "god" for a bunch of natives.

Un guía (Johnny Weissmuller) de la selva conduce a un escritor (Jean Byron) hasta la eterna sacerdotisa (Helene Stanton) de una tribu pigmea.

Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.

Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.

Nasty white hunters are testing out their germ warfare weapons using wild animals in Africa… until they run into Jungle Jim.

Bad guys trying to steal the mineral rights away from African natives find it isn't so easy fighting Jungle Jim.

Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) battles enemy agents while helping a local tribe relocate from an atomic test bomb site.

Jungle Jim helps an attractive research writer for the British museum clear up the mystery of a tiger cult in Africa while thwarting art thieves and bringing to justice a Nazi war criminal.

Jungle Jim is forced to lead anthropologist Dr. Edwards into a land inhabited by giant people.

Football player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim.

Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.

Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) fights a gorilla, finds a Wac (Ann Savage) and keeps high fiber from falling into enemy hands.

Jungle Jim is out to save Joan from an evil witch doctor whilst simultaneously fighting evil treasure hunter Barton.

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.

Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.

Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.

Primera de una serie de 16 películas protagonizadas por Johnny Weissmuller, basadas en el cómic “Jungle Jim” (1934) de Alex Raymond y Don Moore. Hilary Parker es una médica científica que está en la búsqueda de una droga poco común para ayudar a combatir la polio. El oportunista Bruce Edwards se une a ella, pero en realidad su intención es encontrar un tesoro escondido en la selva.

La última ocasión en la que Weissmuller ofrece su grito de guerra en su papel de hombre-mono. Pero no antes de cumplir la misión de rescatar a una bella sirena que es forzada a contraer matrimonio con un impostor que se hace pasar por el Dios Balu. Tarzán incluso llega a estar atrapado por un pulpo gigante cuando trata de llevar la calma a una comunidad de buscadores de perlas.

Tarzán y su familia acuden a Taronga con regalos para el rey Farrod, quien celebra su cumpleaños. Mientras tanto, llegan Tanya Rowlins, Paul Weir y Karl Morley con la intención de capturar animales salvajes para venderlos a varios zoológicos.

Highlights in this one include a fist-fight between Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe (I won't give away the winner, but check the cast order); a cat-fight between Virginia Grey and Carol Thurston that the male cast of Sienfeld would pay to see and, just to keep things moving, Weissmuller wrestles an alligator, and there are two mid-water collisions between small-craft boats, a big ship wreck and a blazing swamp fire finale. Toss in a plot that has Weissmuller as a psycho-neurotic war veteran who, because he piled up his Navy destroyer on the rocks, now dreads returning to his pre-war occupation of a pilot guiding ships through the channels at the mouth of the Mississippi. Throw in icy Virginia Grey as a spoiled heiress out to take Johnny away from his job, his friends and the girl he loves (who knows why), and you have enough plot and action for two Pine-Thomas jewels.

Una tribu africana dedicada a la adoración del leopardo, ataca a una caravana y luego captura a Jane y a Boy.

Un grupo de arqueólogos piede ayuda a Tarzán para encontrar un antigua ciudad oculta en un valle habitado por amazonas... Una nueva adaptación al cine del famoso personaje de Edgar Rice Burroughs que contó con dos importantes cambios: el personaje de Jane ya no estuvo interpretado por la dulce Maureen O'Sullivan (pareja habitual de Johnny Weissmuller en todas sus versiones anteriores), sino por Brenda Joyce, y la productora, que en todas las películas de tarzán anteriores había sido la MGM, fue en esta ocasión la RKO Radio Pictures.

Johnny Weismuller, Esther Williams and other aquatic champions present an exhibition of swimming and diving.

Tarzán recibe una carta de Jane, quien está en Europa trabajando como enfermera durante la contienda mundial. Ésta le pide una planta medicinal que sólo existe en un misterioso oasis, y el hombre de la selva se dirige hacia allí en compañía de Boy y Cheetah. Por el camino se les unirá una hermosa artista de circo, quien en realidad es una espía que desea ayudar a combatir a un desalmado que se ha hecho con el poder de una ciudad.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Dakota (Terry), un soldado que está de permiso en Nueva York, visita la famosa Stage Door Canteen (título original del film), un local de Broadway donde célebres artistas entretenían a los soldados que volvían del frente. Dakota y sus amigos, Tex (Sunset Carson) y California (Lon McAllister), caen rendidos ante los encantos de Eileen (Cheryl Walker), Jean (Marjorie Riordan) y Ella Sue (Margaret Early). Artistas del calibre de Katharine Hepburn, Merle Oberon, George Raft, Johnny Weismuller, Ralph Bellamy o Harpo Marx llenan el local, en el que actúan las bandas de Xavier Cugat, Count Basie y Benny Goodman.

Poco después de la partida de Jane Parker hacia Inglaterra, Tarzán y su hijo Boy reciben la petición de ayuda de Zandra, hija del rey de la ciudad perdida de Palandria, cuyo pueblo acaba de ser invadido y esclavizado por tropas nazis. Sin embargo, Tarzán decide permanecer al margen y se limita a "confiscar" una radio portátil de los alemanes. Pero cuando un destacamento de soldados al mando del coronel nazi Von Reichart, buscando la radio, secuestra a Boy, Tarzán decide romper su aislamiento y combatir al III Reich, que amenaza expandirse por su selva.

Boy, el hijo de Tarzán y Jane, que cree que sus padres han muerto, es raptado por unos hombres que quieren llevarlo a los Estados Unidos para que actúe en un espectáculo con un elefante. Sus padres no dudarán en viajar a la "Gran Manzana" para rescatar a su hijo. Una de las más populares películas del mítico Tarzán, que cambia esta vez la jungla africana por la selva de cemento neoyorquina.

Una expedición científica descubre oro en el territorio de Tarzán. Los malvados Medford y Vandermeer secuestran a Jane y a Boy para conseguir que el rey de la selva les indique el emplazamiento exacto del dorado metal...

After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star filled rodeo.

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.

Un avión se estrella en medio de la jungla y el único superviviente es un niño pequeño. Tarzán y Jane lo encuentran y lo acogen como un hijo. Años después, una expedición organizada por la familia del chico se adentra en la jungla intentando encontrar al pequeño.

El capitán Fry, un famoso cazador blanco, quiere capturar a Tarzán para exhibirlo enjaulado como un animal por todo el mundo. Llega a la selva para cumplir su propósito junto con los primos de Jane, Eric y Rita...

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.

Harry Holt, un antiguo novio de Jane, se encuentra en África formando parte de una expedición que busca marfil en el mítico cementerio de los elefantes. Él y su amigo Marlin Arlington esperan convencer a Jane para que vuelva con ellos a Londres. Pero Tarzán desaprueba su proyecto de saquear el cementerio.

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.

James Parker y Harry Holt organizan una expedición a África para hallar un cementerio de elefantes que les proporcione el suficiente marfil para hacerse ricos. La bella hija de Parker, Jane, se une a ellos de forma inesperada y despierta una atracción inmediata en Harry. Pero un hombre mono llamado Tarzán y sus amigos simios secuestran a la chica.

A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend, who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.