Iconic Couple
Television Iconic Couple
Love Couple

Tarzan & Jane

Tarzan & Jane

When I was a girl back in the Philippines, it was such a treat to watch Tarzan on our black and white television.

I loved the Tarzan series, I loved his weekly adventures with his trusted Cheeta, bravely going against the men who were shooting and hunting and capturing animals for money and past-time.

When Jane Porter, played by Maureen O’Sullivan as a companion to Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan, the show got even more exciting. It was romantic; her teaching him a bit of “culture” and him teaching her the law of the jungle was hilarious.

I think their characters were a great love story.

From Wikipedia:
Jane, an American from Baltimore, Maryland, is the love interest and later the wife of Tarzan, and subsequently the mother of their son Korak. She develops over the course of the series from a conventional damsel in distress who must be rescued from various perils to a competent and capable adventuress in her own right, fully capable of defending herself and surviving on her own in the jungles of Africa. She first appeared in the initial Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), reappearing in the second, The Return of Tarzan (1913), the third, The Beasts of Tarzan (1914), the fourth, The Son of Tarzan (1914), the fifth, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916), the seventh, Tarzan the Untamed (1920), the eighth, Tarzan the Terrible (1921), the ninth, Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1923), the tenth, Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924), and the nineteenth, Tarzan’s Quest (1936). Jane also appeared in a minor role in the non-Tarzan novel The Eternal Lover (1925).