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Bruce Bennett (May 19, 1906 - February 24, 2007)

Bruce Bennett, c. 1940s

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Herman Brix at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics

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Bruce Bennett, c. 1940s

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Herman Brix at the 1928 Olympics

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Herman Brix at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics

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MGM’s feature film Tarzan the Ape Man (1931), and its sequel, Tarzan and His Mate (1934), both starring former Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, turned out to be huge successes for the studio. They also cemented in the public’s mind the image of the monosyllabic, grunting ape man.

That iteration of the ape man was so popular that it was used in the non-MGM film serial Tarzan the Fearless (1933), starring another Olympic swimmer, Buster Crabbe.

Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs praised the films in public (they were making him money, after all), but privately hated their portrayal of his most prized creation. So he partnered with a family friend, Ashton Dearholt, and produced the 12 chapter-serial The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935).

The serial starred yet another Olympian, Henry Brix, in the title role. Ironically, Brix had been MGM’s first choice to play Tarzan in their films. Brix, unfortunately, broke his shoulder while filming another movie. MGM went with their second choice, Weissmuller, and the rest is history.

Frankly, just by physique alone I think Brix is the superior Tarzan. Even in his early films Weissmuller always looked a little doughy to me.

Brix’s Tarzan was also extremely faithful to the character from Burroughs’ novels: the cultured, educated, literate Lord Greystroke who spoke several languages, yet was unmistakably a man of action. This was the last time Tarzan would be depicted so until 1959′s Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure.

Once the troubled production was completed (and that story is practically a book in itself), movie theatres were offered two different was to exhibit the serial: as a stand-alone feature 70 minutes in length, entitled Tarzan and the Lost Tribe; or a feature-length (65 minutes) first episode, followed by the remaining 11 chapters.

Reviews of the film were generally poor in the US, and The New Adventures of Tarzan was the last Tarzan serial ever produced. However, like most Tarzan films of the time, it was a great success overseas. So much so, in fact, that in 1938 the last ten chapters of the serial were edited together to become the feature Tarzan and the Green Goddess.

Brix felt he was typecast after the serial was released, so he soon changed his name to Bruce Bennett. That’s how he’s billed in the numerous films and television episodes he appeared throughout the 1940s and 50s.

Some trivia regarding The New Adventures of Tarzan:

- The film was set, and largely filmed, in Guatemala.

- Producer Ashton Dearholt, who was married, met his leading lady, Ula Holt, on a previous trip to Guatemala. Dearholt was so smitten that he took Holt home to live with him. That promptly led Dearholt’s wife, Florence Gilbert, to leave with their two children and divorce him.

- Dearholt also played Raglan, the villain of the story. He claimed he had to step in to play the role when the actor hired for the part, Don Costello, got sick. This earns him the “George Santos Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire Award,” as there was no Don Costello. It was just a story Dearholt made up because he always planned to act in the film.

- Edgar Rice Burroughs fell in love with Dearholt’s ex, Florence Gilbert, when he first met her in 1929. During filming of the serial in 1935 Burroughs divorced his wife and married Gilbert, despite (or perhaps because) her being 30 years younger than him.

- Tarzan’s chimpanzee companion in the film was named Nkima, not Cheeta as in the MGM films. Jiggs the chimp played both roles, and he was paid $2,000 for his work in the serial.

- Herman Brix was hired at the salary of $75 a week but, other than his travel and accommodations in Guatemala, never got paid for his work.

- There are stories that Brix was personally chosen by Burroughs to play Tarzan. Brix himself stated that he only met Burroughs briefly after filming had wrapped. The only actor Burroughs actually picked for the role was Jim Pierce, for 1927′s Tarzan and the Golden Lion.

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