They arrive just as Buster’s lion brothers are being released into a steel arena. To everyone’s amazement, Buster enters the big cage unarmed and holds an impromptu “family reunion” . . . |
Saturday, February 14, 2009
King of the Jungle #11
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It's amazing that the idea of "Tarzan" working a lion act didn't emerge on the American circus scene until 1963 when Jon Zerbini took on the role.
Jimmy;
You are adsolutely right.
abut my first cousin Jean Charles Zerbini,change his name to Jon Tarzan.legally.
he was also offer a part to do the Tarzan Movie.
dint make it.for his legs, they wanted more mussel...
sincerely Mireille.
Always heard that Burroughs was very protective of his "intellectual property" and during his lifetime sued a lot of people whom he felt were trespassing on "Tarzan" without paying upfront.
If the book this movie is based on was copied from anybody, it is Kipling's THE JUNGLE BOOK, dealing with a young boy adopted and raised by wolves.
The last of the M-G-M Tarzan films TARZAN'S NEW YORK ADVENTURE even includes some circus scenes where Tarzan is locked up in a cage wagon. Hmmm.
I made a comment here that I somehow deleted by touching the wrong key.
Which was: I lived in Tarzana most of two years, when Kim and I were taking care of Parley Baer. The town was so named by Edgar Rice Burroughs for his famed character, and was an immense ranch, subsequently sold off and sub-divided into what is the town today. In the Post Office, there is a display case with original maps of the Burroughs estate, Tarzan books, comics, movie posters, stills, and early memorabilia from Elmo Lincoln's creation of Tarzan in the silents.
When Jon Zerbini appropriated the name, the Burroughs estate moved to stop him, but he got a judge to grant the legal name change just ahead of intervention. Leonard Slye had this done when he took the name Roy Rogers, as did Michael Marion Morrison when he legally became John Wayne, but after all, these guys assumed characters created by themselves and nurtured by movie icons working with them for that end. They did not infringe on work established separately by others.
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