Jane Porter (later Jane Clayton, Lady Greystoke) is a fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly film.
Jane Porter is the deuteragonist of Disney's 1999 film Tarzan, its 2002 sequel Tarzan & Jane, and its 2001-02 television series the Legend of Tarzan. She is the love interest, sweetheart and eventual wife of Tarzan.
In The Return of Tarzan, Tarzan and Jane marry. In later books, he lives with her for a time in England. They have one son, Jack, who takes the ape name Korak (the Killer).
In London, the man once called "Tarzan" has long since left Africa behind and settled down with his wife, American aristocrat Jane Porter (Margot Robbie), and has taken up both his birth name and ancestral family residence as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke.
Karla is one of the two women to play Jane opposite two different men playing Tarzan. Brenda Joyce is the other. Schramm appeared in only four films and only received screen credit for her two appearances as Jane.
Farewell to Maureen O'Sullivan, veteran film and stage actress best known for playing Jane opposite Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan in six MGM films. O'Sullivan, who has died at 87, also had a substantial theatre resume, including Broadway's Mornings At Seven and the role of Edith Lambert in Never Too Late (1962).
These days, Johnny Weissmuller is best known as the most famous actor to play the role of Tarzan. While his yelling went on to become iconic, before his appearances on the silver screen, the American was a swimmer. An elite swimmer at that. The best of his era.
He parlayed his success in the pool into Hollywood stardom, where nearly a century later he is still well known for his role as Tarzan. And yet, Weissmuller's most important maneuver was not known until after he passed away in 1984 at age 79.
Tarzan, a British lord, is a white king of the African jungle. According to the new biography, “Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs” (Scribner, $30), Burroughs was fascinated by roughing it and by “proper” lineage.
Despite what Disney fans may believe, Tarzan is not related to "Frozen" characters Anna and Elsa. "Can I put one rumor to rest that is my fault? Tarzan's parents are not Anna and Elsa's parents," said codirector Chris Buck during a 20th anniversary panel for "Tarzan" to a lot of applause from the crowd.
Tarzan, as Mr. Burroughs portrayed him, was a young English nobleman, a certain Lord Greystoke, who was lost in the jungle as an infant and grew up among the apes. As he appeared in print, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that he was a fictional character -- a literary invention -- pure and simple.
Tarzan grew curious of the newcomers as he never seen other humans before due to being raised by gorillas all his life. Tarzan then instantly took a liking to Jane and her father while watching Jane share a loving embrace with her father upon discovering gorillas did family groups together.
Jane the Virgin is going to be a mom in real life! Gina Rodriguez, who played the title character on the CW series, and husband Joe LoCicero are expecting their first child together. She announced her pregnancy on Instagram on July 30, her 38th birthday.
The character's background included his birth in Africa, becoming an orphan, and then raised by apes. His real name was given to him as John Clayton, but since he was brought up by an ape family, they named him Tarzan, which meant “white skin.”
Throughout the entirety of the movie, Jane's exact age is never revealed. However, in the original novel Tarzan of the Apes, she was said to be 19 years old when she met Tarzan.
While Burroughs never said exactly where Tarzan was set, Cameroon's sandy beaches, imposing jungle and ape sanctuaries seem like a good bet – so much so that the West African country was chosen as the setting for the 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
And going back to my original statement on Tarzan: for the artists and animators who designed him, it was a conscious decision on their part because they wanted to pick a hair style to make him look “wild” or “uncivilized”.
Experience it live. Ho Van Lang, a man dubbed a "real-life Tarzan" after surviving 40 years in the Vietnamese jungle, has died of liver cancer at 52 as friend blames "processed foods" and alcohol for survivalist's death.
A real-life "Tarzan" who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for four decades has died of liver cancer at the age of 52, The Times reported. Ho Van Lang returned to civilization in 2013 after he spent his entire life in the dense Vietnamese jungle with his father, Ho Van Than.
Cheetah only appeared in the movies & tv series & Tarzan called him Cheetah. However, in the original novels, Tarzan had a little monkey that would follow him around & Tarzan called him Nkima.
Weissmuller's jungle call, notated. Although the RKO Picture version of the Tarzan yell was putatively that of Weissmuller, different stories exist as to how the Tarzan yell was created. Many speculate that a man named Lloyd Thomas Leech was the original voice behind the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Tarzan yell.
Tarzan, the jungle king, was first brought to the screen in 1918. Up through 1989, about 40 features and four serials, plus several radio and TV series have been made to recount the adventures of Tarzan, of the apes.
