#johnny sheffield

[farawayboi]

[gatutor]

Johnny Sheffield-Nancy Kelly-Johnny Weissmuller "Tarzán en el desierto misterioso" (Tarzan´s desert mystery) 1943, de Wilhelm Thiele.

[tarzanwriter]

Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan are the most famous film Tarzan and Jane, starring in six pictures for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932) and "Tarzan and His Mate" (1934) pushed the boundaries of acceptable nudity, sexuality, and violence in the Pre-Code Era. Following the Hays Code crackdown, the series became more family oriented with the movies "Tarzan Escapes" (1936), "Tarzan Finds a Son!" (1939), "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" (1941) and "Tarzan's New York Adventure" (1942). Learn more in the book "Tarzan on Film."

[myboyfriendx]

Johnny Sheffield

[chernobog13]

The fam posing for a portrait by Cheeta, before getting back to work filming Tarzan and the Amazons (1945).

Longtime Jane actress Maureen O'Sullivan had left the Tarzan series after Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942). Coincidentally, that had been the last Tarzan film at MGM, which had produced all the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films since 1932, and had allocated large budgets for each.

However, due to declining revenues from foreign markets due to World War ll, MGM sold its Tarzan license, which included Weissmuller's and Boy actor Johnny Sheffield's contracts, to producer Sol Lesser. Lesser tried and tried to get O'Sullivan to return as Jane, but she steadfastly refused.

Lesser's first two Tarzan films, Tarzan Triumphs and Tarzan's Desert Mystery (both 1943) were released through RKO. The much lower budgets were evident, as was the retooling done to the series because MGM still owned the rights to the Tarzan family treehouse, Weissmuller's famous Tarzan yell, and intellectual property.

Lesser got by without a Jane by casting actresses Frances Gifford (Triumphs) and Nancy Kelly (Desert Mystery) as non-romantic female leads.

Finally, Lesser found a replacement for O'Sullivan in actress Brenda Joyce. Her Jane debuted in Amazons, returning from civilization to rejoin Tarzan and Boy in the jungle.

She worked well with Weissmuller and Sheffield. She stayed in the role for five films, while Sheffield and Weissmuller both left the series before her. She was Jane for new Tarzan actor Lex Barker's first entry, Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949), and then retired from acting to raise her family.

[citizenscreen]

Johnny Sheffield was #botd in 1931.

[silveragelovechild]

Johnny Sheffield was cast as "Boy" in Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939). He made eight movie with Johnny Weissmuller, the last in 1947. He went on to star in his own movie series “Bomba the Jungle Boy” starring in 12 films.

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Tarzan's Desert Mystery, Italian lobby card (fotobusta). Italian theatrical release 1947