![]() From the Danton Burroughs Archive Collection.) ( Photo below left: Joan and James Pierce photo cropped to show the left half of their wedding invitation, dated August 8, 1928. ( Above left: All-Story Weekly, November 18, 1916, featuring “Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar” – Above Right: ERB, 1875-1950) On the up side, James Pierce would wed Joan Burroughs in 1928 and they would remain together until their deaths (Joan in 1972 and James in 1983). Pierce’s role in Wings was then filled by a relative newcomer named Gary Cooper, and Wings would walk away with the first Oscar for what is now known as Best Picture in 1929. ERB nevertheless convinced Pierce to become Tarzan and he gave up his role in Wings. ![]() Pierce replied that he was to appear in another film titled Wings. ERB asked Pierce if would appear as Tarzan in ERB’s next silent Tarzan picture. ![]() Pierce had attended a party held by Burroughs where he met Joan. Pierce and Jane was played by Edgar Rice Burroughs’s daughter Joan. Tarzan was played by silent film actor James H. ![]() For newcomers, we repeat the introduction to our previous Tarzan episode from July of 2019, almost a year ago: From 1932-36 Tarzan on radio consisted of three long-running serials: Tarzan of the Apes, Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher, and The Fires of Toth. Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1951-1952) aired “The End of the World” on Maas the 9th of its 75 episodes.
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