What Hollywood wanted, though, was Johnny Weissmuller, who was just as big, just as handsome and irreproachably white. In 1932, just before the Los Angeles Games, his debut in Tarzan the Ape Man ...

Johnny Weissmuller learned to swim off the Fullerton Avenue Beach in Chicago and went on to stardom in the 1924 Paris Olympics and on the silver screen.

This of course was Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan in the films but was also a swimming superstar 100 years ago. He won three gold medals at the 1924 Paris Olympics: the 100-meter freestyle ...

This of course was Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan in the films but was also a swimming superstar 100 years ago. He won three gold medals at the 1924 Paris Olympics: the 100-meter freestyle ...

This of course was Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan in the films but was also a swimming superstar 100 years ago. He won three gold medals at the 1924 Paris Olympics: the 100-meter freestyle, the ...