#glenn morris

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In this authoritative volume, writer and historian Scott Tracy Griffin traces the development of the history-making Tarzan franchise, from the motion-picture industry’s early silents and serials, through the high point of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer era featuring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, to modern worldwide hits like Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and Walt Disney Studios’ animated Tarzan.

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TARZAN' S REVENGE (1938)

1936's Tarzan Escapes had proven to be such a troubling production for everyone involved, so studio GM decided not to renew its option on the Tarzan property.

Producer Sol Lesser stepped in and produced Tarzan's Revenge, his second Tarzan film after Tarzan the Fearless (1933), which starred a pre-Flash Gordon Buster Crabbe.

Crabbe was unavailable for the lead, so Lesser once again searched for someone athletic enough to play the role of Tarzan. Candidates included New York Yankees star Lou Gehrig, heavyweight boxers Max Baer and Jimmy Braddock (of Cinderella Man[2005] fame), and professional wrestlers Sandor Szabo and Dave Levin.

Lesser was eventually able to convince Glenn Morris, 1936 Olympic decathlon gold medalist, to become the Ape Man. Morris was paired with Eleanor Holm, an Olympic swimming champ, to play the love interest, Eleanor. Holm had quite a bit of notoriety at the time, and Lesser did not believe audiences would believe her as Jane.

The film suffered from being an obviously low-budget affair, and that Tarzan is absent for most of the film. Audiences had been spoiled by the big budget MGM/Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films, and were not eager to embrace the new look. Add to that the near-universal bad reviews, and that was enough to effectively end the acting careers of the tow leads, as well as cancel the sequels Lesser had planned.

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Olympia - Fest der Schönheit (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938)

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Olympic champions Glenn Morris and Eleanor Holm starred in the 1938 film "Tarzan's Revenge." Learn more in "Tarzan on Film."

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Tarzan's Jungle Album from Tarzan Family No. 61, February 1976. Glenn Morris (1912-1974) only made two films, one of which was as Tarzan in Tarzan's Revenge, 1937.

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Attract Positive Energy With The Secret Smile

The late Dr. Glenn Morris noticed that when attempting to teach meditation and energy work, some of his students would get trapped in the darker emotional states that can get dredged up when peeling away the layers of the ego. To combat this, he combined Taoist inner smile exercises with Western...

http://disinfo.com/2017/11/attract-positive-energy-secret-smile/

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Surviving A Dark Night Of The Soul

A dark night of the soul can be a tough experience to deal with, especially when you don’t know what’s happening to you. Anyone who meditates, practices magick, or follows a path of energy work sooner or later finds themselves having a Dark Night of the Soul. The term comes from...

http://disinfo.com/2017/11/surviving-dark-night-soul/