Johnny Weissmuller's Khaki Shirt Jungle Jim Tarzan Worn Western Costume Company

Description

JOHNNY WEISSMULLER'S KHAKI SAFARI SHIRT
TARZAN / JUNGLE JIM
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Hollywood Movie Costumes, Inc. is honored to offer for auction this Khaki Safari shirt worn by JOHNNY WEISMULLER.
The shirt is a custom made one with short sleeves, epaulets and 2 chest pockets. The back yoke has a lining with the label from Western Costume Company. JOHNNY WEISSMULLER'S name is on the label. It is faint, but readable. The shirt is still very starched! The reason this shirt is so rare is that JOHNNY WEISSMULLER was mostly seen in the flesh with just a loincloth - therefore very few items of this nature exist!
The shirt is a size 47 or 19.
I AM SHOWING A FEW PICTURES OF THE SHIRT FOR THE BEST 'DESCRIPTION'!
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER is best known as 'TARZAN' and then as 'JUNGLE JIM'. A sickly child, he took up swimming on the advice of a doctor. He grew to be a 6' 3", 190-pound champion athlete - undefeated winner of five Olympic gold medals, 67 world and 52 national titles, holder of every freestyle record from 100 yards to the half-mile. In his first picture, GLORIFYING THE AMERICAN GIRL (1929), he appeared as an Adonis clad only in a fig leaf. After great success with a jungle movie, MGM head Louis B. Mayer, via Irving Thalberg, optioned two of Edgar Rice Burroughs' TARZAN stories. Cyril Hume, working on the adaptation of Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), noticed Weissmuller swimming in the pool at his hotel and suggested him for the part of TARZAN . Weissmuller was under contract to BVD to model underwear and swimsuits; MGM got him released by agreeing to pose many of its female stars in BVD swimsuits. The studio billed him as "the only man in Hollywood who's natural in the flesh and can act without clothes". The film was an immediate box-office and critical hit. Was the first man in the world to swim 100 m. Freestyle in less than a minute. During the making of the "JUNGLE JIM " movies, he was fined 00 for every pound he was overweight. At his request, a recording of his trademark TARZAN yell which he invented was played as his coffin was lowered into the ground.
Please keep in mind the age of this item! There is some light discoloration as the shirt has been hung on a wooden hanger for many years, however the lining took the brunt of it. I would recommend a Professional cleaning.
All of us at Hollywood Movie Costumes feel very fortunate in being able to bring to auction this fine piece of Hollywood History. All of the items we are putting up for auction were used in the Movies, T.V. or Theater.
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Winning bidder will receive a Certificate of Authenticity from Hollywood Movie Costumes, Inc.
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