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Posted by Buckles at 8/25/2005 06:42:00 AM
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how did your dad get into the elephant business
That's a good question, and I think an interesting story. I'll start sending out some pictures and anecdotes in the morning.
Is that the same Anna May that appeared in the movie GUNGA DIN with Carey Grant and Gary Cooper?
I wasn't aware there was an "Anna May" in Gunga Den. That film was released in 1939 and filmed the year before while the Al G. Barnes Circus still wintered out there.They usually supplied all the elephants for the epic films.
On this subject however, Gordon Taylor just sent me a copy of a recently published biography of Anna May Wong. It's extremely interesting.
I checked some of the info I have,the original Anna May
was with the John G. Robinson show
around 1913 and later was kept at the old Selig zoo at Los Angeles.
I think she also appeared in a lot of those old Tarzan movies too
during the 1930's.
The "Anna May" you refer to was at the Selig zoo in the 1910's and appeared in a lot of silent movies but the elephants in the 1930's Tarzan Movies were supplied by the Al G. Barnes Circus that wintered in California.
I think possibly I meant to say the silient Tarzan movies starring Elmo Lincoln.
Reportly the guy who played Korack son of Tarzan in a silent movie was either attacked or killed by a elephant too.
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