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Christopher Lambert and Andie MacDowell starred in "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" (1984), and epic re-telling of the Tarzan story. Learn more in "Tarzan on Film."

Olympic champions Glenn Morris and Eleanor Holm starred in the 1938 film "Tarzan's Revenge." Learn more in "Tarzan on Film."

Buster Crabbe and Jacqueline Wells starred in the 1933 serial "Tarzan the Fearless." Learn more in "Tarzan on Film."

Remembering Tony Curtis on the anniversary of his birth.

Curtis played Jane’s father, retired NYPD detective “Archie Porter,” in the unconventional CBS television pilot “Tarzan in Manhattan” (1989), starring Joe Lara and Kim Crosby as Tarzan and Jane, with Jan-Michael Vincent supplying the villainy.

Curtis was born Bernard Herschel Schwartz in New York City on June 3, 1925, to Jewish Hungarian immigrants, tailor Emanuel Schwartz and wife Helen. Curtis served in the navy during World War II, enrolling in the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research on the G.I. Bill and appearing onstage in the Catskills. He won a Universal contract and was soon cast as a leading man in a variety of genres, including comedies, dramas, and historical pictures.

Among his feature credits are “Son of Ali Baba” (1952), “Houdini” (1953) “The Black Shield of Falworth” (1954), “Trapeze” (1956), “Sweet Smell of Success” (1957), “The Vikings” (1958), “Operation Petticoat” (1959), “Some Like It Hot” (1959), “Spartacus” (1960), “The Outsider” (1961), “Taras Bulba” (1962), “Goodbye Charlie” (1964), “The Great Race” (1965), and “The Boston Strangler” (1968). Later in his career, he made guest appearances on television shows, including a recurring role on “Vegas”.

Curtis earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for “The Defiant Ones” (1958), a story that saw two Southern convicts, one white and one black (Sidney Poitier), chained together and on the run from the law. The picture generated nine Oscar nominations, including a Best Actor for Poitier and Best Director for Stanley Kramer, winning Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.

The actor married six times: to actress Janet Leigh, with whom he had two daughters, Kelly and actress Jamie Lee Curtis; German actress Christine Kaufmann and had two daughters, Alexandra and Allegra; model Leslie Allen who bore sons Benjamin and Nicholas; actress Andrea Savio; lawyer Lisa Deutsch; and horse trainer Jill VandenBerg, with whom he operated a Nevada horse rescue in his later years. He published two memoirs, “Tony Curtis: The Autobiography” (1994) and “American Prince: A Memoir” (2008).

Former champion gymnast Frank Merrill and Natalie Kingston starred in two ape-man serials for Universal, "Tarzan the Mighty" (1928) and "Tarzan the Tiger" (1929), loosely based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" and "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar." Learn more in "Tarzan on Film."

Remembering Ron Ely on the anniversary of his birth.

Ely played the ape man onscreen in the 1966-68 NBC-TV series “Tarzan” and several Saturday matinee films that were edited from the series’ footage, including “Tarzan’s Deadly Silence” (1970) and “Tarzan’s Jungle Rebellion” (1971). The late child actor Manuel Padilla Jr. co-starred as Ely’s ward, Jai.

Ronald Pierce Ely was born in Hereford, Texas, on June 2, 1938, to Vernon H. and Sybil Stephen Ely. His father died when he was a toddler, and he and his sister moved with his mother to Amarillo to live with his grandparents. While at Amarillo High School, Ron played sports and won the Texas State Poetry Reading Contest in 1956. He worked summers as an oilfield roughneck, before enrolling in the University of Texas at Austin.

Eager for a film career, Ely dropped out of school and moved to Hollywood with a friend, where he signed up for dramatic lessons with Estelle Harmon and worked odd jobs to survive. He made his debut as the radioman Munson on “South Pacific” (1958), earning a contract with 20th Century Fox studios and enrolling in their New Talent program.

More film and television roles followed, including a regular part in “The Aquanauts”, later re-titled “Malibu Run” (1960-61). Having passed upon the Tarzan role previously (Jock Mahoney accepted the offer), Ely agreed to replace film Tarzan Mike Henry in the television series when Henry resigned following three tough location shoots in Mexico and Brazil. Ely’s “Tarzan” followed, suit, filming in the Latin American locales.

Determined to provide a convincing portrayal of the ape man, Ely did his own stunts and suffered numerous injuries on set, including a 25-foot fall from a vine that separated his shoulder, requiring surgery (he finished the story in a sling after producers filmed the episode’s villain shooting him off the vine).A second vine fall broke the other shoulder. His first day on set, a lion’s fangs punctured his skull during a wrestling sequence, and he was dragged by the head one hundred yards through the brush by the spooked cat before he could battle free. Fortunately Weintraub had paid $65,000 for an insurance policy on Ely with Lloyds of London, worth $3 million.

Following the cancellation of “Tarzan”, Ely worked in European films and was a popular guest star on U.S. television series like “The Love Boat” and “Fantasy Island”. He also worked as an emcee, on the game show “Face the Music” (1979) and the Miss America Pageant (1980-81). He portrayed another iconic pulp hero in the feature “Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze” (1975) and guest-starred on the 1990s “Tarzan” series as big-game bow-hunter Gordon Shaw, who stalks Wolf Larson’s ape man. He also battled former Tarzan Denny Miller on the pilot “The Seal” (1981), which wasn’t picked up for a series.

In 1981, while in Florida for a celebrity tennis tournament, he met future wife Valerie Lundeen, 1981’s Miss Florida USA and a Miss World finalist. They married on March 10, 1984, and Ely retired from acting to raise their three children in their Santa Barbara home, where he authored two Jake Sands mystery novels: “Night Shadows” (1994) and “East Beach” (1995). His final screen appearance came in the film “Expecting Amish” (2014). Additional film credits include “The Hunters” (1958), “The Fiend Who Walked the West” (1958), “The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker” (1959), “The Night of the Grizzly” (1966) and “The Cry of the Black Wolves" (1972).

Remembering Olympic gold medalist Johnny Weissmuller on the anniversary of his birth.

Weissmuller portrayed “Tarzan” in six MGM films and six for RKO, a role for which he became more closely identified than his triumphs in the athletic world, as a five-time Olympic swimming champion.

He was born Janos Weissmuller on June 2, 1904, to Petrus and Elizabeth Weissmuller in the village of Freidorf, in the Banat region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Romania). The next year, the family emigrated to the U.S., where brother Peter was born.

An avid swimmer from childhood, the future Tarzan was discovered by and trained under “Big Bill” Bachrach of the Chicago Athletic Club, winning his first race, the 50-yard freestyle, in 1921. He remained undefeated until his retirement, compiling a record 36 individual championships and 67 world championships while setting 94 American records and 51 world records, winning five gold medals in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics.

Following his retirement from athletics, Weissmuller was touring the country to endorse BVD swimwear when he was discovered and cast as the jungle lord in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Tarzan the Ape Man” opposite starlet Maureen O’Sullivan as his mate Jane. The films achieved cinematic immortality, and the pair remain pop culture icons, forever associated with the popular characters.

MGM’s contract with Weissmuller limited him to playing Tarzan onscreen, but he was able to tour with Billy Rose’s Aquacade, as the featured swimmer with Eleanor Holm and Esther Williams. After aging out of the Tarzan role, he donned safari khakis to play Alex Raymond’s hero, “Jungle Jim”, in a series of 16 films and a 26-episode television series in 1955-56.

I grew up reading the books, so the literary Tarzan is my favorite.

Happy Birthday to Sarah Wayne Callies!

Callies portrayed police detective Jane Porter opposite Travis Fimmel’s ape man in the short-lived WB series “Tarzan” (2003). It was her first series lead.

Born June 1, 1977, in La Grange, Illinois and reared in Hawaii, Callies attended Punahou School. She began acting onstage in high school, and graduated from Dartmouth College and the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver.

Settling in New York, she won a recurring role opposite Oliver Platt in “Queens Supreme”. Additional guest-starring roles include the series “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Dragnet,” “Numb3rs,” “House,” and “Letterkenny”.

Following her brief stint in “Tarzan,” Callies played female leads Dr. Sara Tancredi opposite Wentworth Miller in “Prison Break”, Lori Grimes opposite in Andrew Lincoln in “The Walking Dead” and Katie Bowman opposite Josh Holloway in “Colony”. She has also played series regular roles in “Council of Dads” and “The Company You Keep” and starred in the mini-series “The Long Road Home” and “Unspeakable”. Feature credits include “Whisper” (2006), “The Celestine Prophecy” (2007), “Into the Storm” (2014), “Pay the Ghost” (2015), “The Other Side of the Door” (2016), and “The Show” (2017). She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, and a Scream Award for Best Horror Actress, for her role on “The Walking Dead,” and won a Satellite Award for Best Cast – Television Series for the show.

Remembering Marilyn Monroe on the 100th Anniversary of her birth.

One of 20th-century Hollywood’s most iconic figures, Monroe was director Lee “Roll ‘Em” Sholem’s choice for Jane in the RKO feature “Tarzan and the Slave Girls” (1950), which starred Lex Barker in the second of his five ape-man appearances. Despite bringing the starlet in for eight auditions, producer Sol Lesser remained unimpressed and Monroe’s friend Vanessa Brown was selected for the role. Nonetheless, Monroe went on to achieve great fame, both as a talented performer and blonde bombshell, remembered for her comedic film persona and untimely death.

Born Norma Jean Mortenson on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, she was reared in foster homes and orphanages and became a teen bride when she married James Dougherty, a factory worker and, later, merchant marine sailor, in 1942. The couple divorced in 1946; Monroe later married baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller.

On June 26, 1944, Captain Ronald Reagan sent photographer Private David Conover of the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit to actor and inventor Reginald Denny’s Radioplanes factory in Van Nuys, California. Conover shot photos of the 19-year-old brunette Norma Jean assembling drones, retaining her as a model for other projects. The following January, she quit her job to embark on a modeling and acting career and adopted the stage name Marilyn Monroe.

Monroe worked under contract with 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures earning bit parts in the films “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim” (1947) and “Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!” (1948). Brief but memorable roles followed in “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950) and “All About Eve” (1950). Monroe posed nude for a calendar, a shot later reprinted in the debut issue of “Playboy” magazine, which further boosted her profile.

Determined to become a serious actor, Monroe honed her craft at Lee Strasberg’s famed Actors Studio. She rose to prominence as one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars in the films “Niagara” (1953), “How to Marry a Millionaire” (1953), “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (1953), “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (1954), “The Seven Year Itch” (1955), “Bus Stop” (1956), “The Prince and the Showgirl” (1957), “Some Like It Hot” (1959), and “The Misfits” (1961). However, she became increasingly unreliable due to substance abuse and psychological problems. Marilyn Monroe died of barbiturate overdose at her Brentwood home, August 4, 1962, age 36, her death ruled a probable suicide.

Warner Brothers' "The Legend of Tarzan" (2016) is the most recent in a series of more than 50 authorized films starring Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle lord. Alexander Skarsgård and Margot Robbie star as the ape man and his mate. Learn more in the book "Tarzan on Film."

Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey starred in the first Tarzan film, the silent "Tarzan of the Apes" (1918), adapted from the first novel. The film was a smash hit and was followed by the sequel "The Romance of Tarzan" (1918). Six more silent films and serials followed, and dozens of talkies. Learn more in the book "Tarzan on Film".

Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan are the most famous film Tarzan and Jane, starring in six pictures for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932) and "Tarzan and His Mate" (1934) pushed the boundaries of acceptable nudity, sexuality, and violence in the Pre-Code Era. Following the Hays Code crackdown, the series became more family oriented with the movies "Tarzan Escapes" (1936), "Tarzan Finds a Son!" (1939), "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" (1941) and "Tarzan's New York Adventure" (1942). Learn more in the book "Tarzan on Film."

Reverberate travels up and beyond with issue #4, as we highlight the renowned author’s interplanetary tales of derring-do. An interview with cover artist Ronn Sutton (Carson of Venus, The Man-Eater, Korak the Killer comic strips) leads off the issue. Patrick Quilter examines parallels between James Cameron’s Avatar franchise and the works of Burroughs (one of Cameron’s noted influences), followed by a journey through the colorful world of Barsoom guided by author Alan Hanson (A Tarzan Chrono-log, Exploring Tarzan’s Africa). Finally, novelist Gary A. Buckingham (Tarzan Resurgent, Tarzan and the Lion of Judah, Tarzan: Untamed Frontiers) explores the progress of scientific thought that inspired and refuted Burroughs’ fanciful tales—while deftly tying together three of his fictional tales of the ape man.

“Reverberate continues to outperform expectations,” notes publisher Scott Tracy Griffin, the author of Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration (2012) and Tarzan on Film (2016). “Sales have been brisk; people are discovering the magazine and re-kindling their love for Burroughs’ fiction.”

The 48-page periodical, printed on high-quality, glossy pages, perfect-bound with cardstock covers, retains the introductory rate of $10, plus $5 domestic postage per magazine. International inquiries will receive a postal quote. The U.S. does not offer ground shipping beyond its borders, so all foreign postage, including Canadian, is via airmail.