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1935. "Actor Herman Brix, now named Bruce Bennett, played Tarzan in 1930s." RKO Radio Pictures photo from the 1948 Look magazine article "Princeton-Bred Tarzan." View full size.
These lines by author Gabe Essoe caught my eye: "Brix's portrayal was the only time between the silents and the 1960s that Tarzan was accurately depicted in films. He was mannered, cultured, soft-spoken, a well-educated English lord who spoke several languages, and didn't grunt." But he still changed his name from Herman Brix to Bruce Bennett to avoid the Tarzan typecasting.
If Tarzan was a feral child raised by apes, and did not have contact with western civilization until he was an adult, why was he never seen with a beard?
That is gorgeous photography of a very handsome man!
Bruce Bennett appeared in many classic films, especially at Warner Bros; lived to a ripe old age (died 2007, age 100). I wonder why he was never called on to contribute to a commentary track on the DVDs of movies like "Mildred Pierce" or "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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