Enid Markey was the first Jane Porter with Elmo Lincoln in "Tarzan of the Apes" and "Romance of Tarzan." |
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Karla Schramm was Jane Porter in "Revenge of Tarzan" with Gene Pollar and in "Son of Tarzan" with P. Dempsey Tabler. |
Louise Lorraine was Elmo Lincoln's co-star in "Adventures of Tarzan" serial, playing Jane. |
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Greta Kemble Cooper was Jane on the stage with Ronald Adair in 1921. |
Dorothy Dunbar was James Pierce's leading lady (Jane Porter) in "Tarzan and the Golden Lion." |
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Natalie Kingston was Mary Trevor in "Tarzan the Mighty" and then became Jane in Frank Merrill's second serial, "Tarzan the Tiger." |
Maureen O'Sullivan was the most popular Jane, co-starring with Johnny Weissmuller in six MGM films. Her last name was changed to Parker. (Director Van Dyke had wanted Leila Hyams as Jane, but the studio wanted O'Sullivan.) |
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Jacqueline Wells (Julie Bishop) was Buster Crabbe's co-star in "Tarzan the Fearless", as Mary Brooks. |
Ula Holt co-starred with Herman Brix as Ula Vale in the serial "New Adventures of Tarzan." |
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Eleanor Holm played Eleanor in the Glenn Morris movie "Tarzan's Revenge". |
When Maureen O'Sullivan quit playing Jane, other leading ladies were brought in. First up: Francis Gifford as Zandra in "Tarzan Triumphs." |
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Nancy Kelly was Connie Bryce, a stranded lady magician in "Tarzan's Desert Mystery." (Jane was supposedly away nursing wounded American soldiers.) |
Maria Ouspenskaya played the Queen of the Amazons in "Tarzan and the Amazons." |
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Shirley O'Hara was Athena, an Amazon maiden in Tarzan and the Amazons." |
Brenda Joyce became Weissmuller's second Jane in "Tarzan and the Amazons." She stayed on and even co-starred in Lex Barker's first Tarzan film. |
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Acquanetta played Lea, the leader of the Leopard Women in "Tarzan and the Leopard Women" |
Patricia Morison was the misguided Tanya Rawlins in "Tarzan and the Huntress." |
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Linda Christian was Mara, one of the "mermaids" in Weissmuller's final film in the series, "Tarzan and the Mermaids." |