oswald was the name of tarzan's monkey in the movies.
oswald was the name of tarzan's monkey in the movies.
what was the name of tarzan's monkey in the movies?
oswald
weissmuller starred in six tarzan movies for mgm with actress maureen o'sullivan as jane and cheeta the chimpanzee. the last three also included johnny sheffield as boy. then, in 1942, weissmuller went to rko and starred in six more tarzan movies with markedly reduced production values. sheffield also appeared as boy in the first five features for rko. brenda joyce took over the role of jane in weissmuller's last four tarzan movies (the first two rko films had not featured jane). unlike mgm, rko allowed weissmuller to play other roles, though a three-picture contract with pine-thomas productions led to only one film, "swamp fire", being made, co-starring buster crabbe. in a total of 12 tarzan films, weissmuller earned an estimated $2,000,000 and established himself as what many movie historians consider the definitive tarzan. although not the first tarzan in movies (that was elmo lincoln), he was the first to be associated with the now traditional ululating, yodeling tarzan yell. during an appearance on television's "the mike douglas show" in the 1970s, weissmuller explained how the famous yell was created. recordings of three vocalists were spliced together to get the effecta soprano, an alto and a hog caller.
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monkeys friendly to tarzan and his allies appear under the generic name of manu ("monkey" in the ape language) in a number of early tarzan novels, including the fourth tarzan novel (1915's "the son of tarzan"), the sixth (chronologically earlier) tarzan novel (1919's "jungle tales of tarzan"), the seventh (1920's "tarzan the untamed") and the ninth (1922's "tarzan and the golden lion"). some of these precursors to nkima may in fact be nkima himself, before he received that name. the first appearance of nkima by name, however, is in the twelfth tarzan novel (1928's "tarzan and the lost empire"). the character re-appears in the fourteenth (1930's "tarzan the invincible"); eighteenth (1932's "tarzan and the leopard men"); nineteenth (1936's "tarzan's quest"); twenty-fourth (1965's "tarzan and the castaways"—a collection of stories, nkima is in one of them, the 1939 short story "tarzan and the champion"); and twenty-sixth (1995's "") books. nkima is also mentioned in passing in the twenty-second novel, "tarzan and the foreign legion" (1947).
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