Pollar at one time had to face four lions alone and do battle with them.
He admits that nothing but his anxiety to nourish his own reputation on the screen prevented him from turning tail when he found that one of the lionesses had been torn from her cubs for the shooting of the scene.
GenePollar was a former fireman whose only acting experienc was as a bit player in the westerns of William Hart, Douglas Fairbanks and Tom Mix.
NFC had no interest in continuing Pollar in the role of Tarzan (particularly since Numa announced it would only loan him for an unheard-of $800 a week), but it did hire Karla Schramm to return as Jane.
Pollar had quit acting and returned to firefighting, Tabler had proven himself spectacularly ill-suited for the role; and early talk of having Searle assume the part was now moot.
Somewhere, Frank Merrill swings from the treetops, GenePollar leads an elephant charge, and Elmo Lincoln wrestles a man killer lion in a fight to the death.
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There were many men who suited up in their loincloths to play this special role.
GenePollar, a New York fireman, P. Dempsey Tabler, an opera singer, Jim Pierce, a football player, and Frank Merrill, a gymnast, where just some of the big muscular men to play Tarzan.
Frank Merill was the first man to put a voice to the Tarzan yell.
After playing a bit part in D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919), Schramm replaced one Evelyn Farriss in the role of Jane opposite former New York fireman GenePollar's Lord of the Jungle in The Revenge of Tarzan (1920).
Apparently, Miss Farriss got so frightened of the prospect of appearing opposite sundry wildlife fauna that she declined the opportunity and the less fearful Karla became a last-minute replacement.
Pollar didn't exactly live up to his billing and that the seven-reel Numa Pictures release proved a rather embarrassing display of ineptness, Schramm survived unscathed and was retained as Jane in the serial The Son of Tarzan (1920).
The most-entertaining sound version was director George Sidney's 1948 version, with an acrobatic Gene Kelly as D'Artagnan, and Lana Turner as Countess Charlotte de Winter - in her first Technicolor picture.
The first "Lord of the Jungle" was actor Elmo Lincoln - he started the trend in 1918 during the silent era with Tarzan of the Apes (1918), and also appeared in the sequel The Romance of Tarzan (1918).
Others who played Tarzan before Weissmuller were GenePollar, P. Dempsey Tabler, James Pierce, and Frank Merrill.
His replacement was a tall, stocky, athletic New York fireman with no acting experience named Joseph C Pohler, who became GenePollar.
Goldwyn changed the name to The Revenge of Tarzan believing that The Return of Tarzan gave the impression it was a re-release of an earlier Elmo Lincoln picture.
In an interview in the May 1934 edition of Screen Play magazine ERB had the last word on Pollar's performance as Tarzan - "As an actor, Gene was a great fireman." (Essoe and Fury)
The first Tarzan® movie was in 1918, Tarzan of the Apes, a silent film starring Elmo Lincoln.
The 1920's The Revenge of Tarzan starred GenePollar and Karla Schramm.
James H. Pierce, the son-in-law of Burroughs, who also voiced Tarzan® on the radio, starred in Tarzan and the Golden Lion.
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The bad news was their bizarre decision to give the role to a totally inexperienced New York fireman, GenePollar (real name, Joseph C. Pohler).
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But audiences loved Lincoln, and in typical Hollywood fashion a sequel was quickly made.
Other studios started to make Tarzan films and other muscular men were fitted out in loincloths: GenePollar (a New York fireman), P.
Dempsey Tabler (an opera singer!), Jim Pierce (a football player who would eventually marry Burroughs' daughter Joan), and Frank Merrill (a gymnast at last!).
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Romance of Tarzan - released by First National Pictures - starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan and Enid Markey as Jane.
Revenge of Tarzan - aka Return of Tarzan - released by Numa Pictures starring GenePollar as Tarzan and Karla Schramm as Jane.
Son of Tarzan - released by National Film Corporation - the first serial - Serial 12 Chapters - starring
Markey made two movies as Jane--the other was "The Romance of Tarzan," also in 1918--then was replaced by Karla Schramm.
(Rumor has it that the second Jane was supposed to be actress Evelyn Fariss, but she weasled out when she learned they were going to use real lions in her scenes.) Lincoln was replaced by a non-actor they named GenePollar, a real-life fireman.
Schramm made two more pictures as Jane, but hardly anybody alive today has ever seen them.
