Maureen O’Sullivan – Tarzan And His Mate – 1080p 1934

Tarzan throws Maureen O’Sullivan in to a water, then it switches to a body double by Josephine McKim. We see Josephine McKim swimming naked underwater. She shows her ass and hint of breasts and bush.

About Maureen O’Sullivan

Maureen O’Sullivan was an Irish-born American actress best known for playing Jane Parker opposite Johnny Weissmuller in the classic Tarzan films of the 1930s and early 1940s. She had a long career that stretched from the early sound era into the 1990s.

Why she’s famous
Jane in the Tarzan films – She played Jane in six Tarzan movies, starting with Tarzan the Ape Man. This became her signature role and made her internationally recognizable.
Classic Hollywood career – She also appeared in major films like The Thin Man, A Day at the Races, and Pride and Prejudice.
Early life

She was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, in 1911. She was discovered in her late teens and moved to Hollywood, where she began acting in the early 1930s. She became a contract player at MGM during the studio era.

Personal life

She married writer-director John Farrow in 1936. Their children included actress Mia Farrow, making Maureen part of a notable Hollywood family; journalist Ronan Farrow is her grandson.

Later career and legacy

After focusing more on family for a period, she returned to stage and screen. Later notable appearances included Hannah and Her Sisters and Peggy Sue Got Married. She died in 1998 in Arizona at age 87. She’s remembered as one of the early major Irish stars in Hollywood and a defining screen “Jane.”

A neat bit of film history: she had a career spanning roughly six decades, from 1930 to the mid-1990s.

 

About Josephine McKim

Josephine McKim was an American competitive swimmer and later actress, best known for her Olympic success in the late 1920s and early 1930s—and for an unusual crossover into Hollywood.

Athletic career
Born January 4, 1910, in Oil City, Pennsylvania. She became a standout freestyle swimmer.
At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, she won bronze in the 400-meter freestyle.
At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won gold in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay as part of the U.S. team, which also set a world record.
Across her career, she set multiple world records in freestyle events and was later inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1991.
Film and stage work

After her swimming fame, she had a short acting career:

She is especially remembered as the body double for Maureen O’Sullivan in the underwater swimming scene from Tarzan and His Mate (1934).
She also appeared in films including Bride of Frankenstein and later worked on Broadway in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Later life

She later became known as Josephine Chalmers after marriage. She died in Woodstock, New York, in 1992 at age 82.

 

About Tarzan And His Mate

Tarzan and His Mate is a 1934 American pre-Code adventure film and the second of the classic MGM Tarzan movies starring Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and Maureen O’Sullivan as Jane. It’s widely considered one of the strongest and most influential early Tarzan films.

Plot

The story follows Tarzan and Jane living together in the jungle when an expedition led by Harry Holt and Martin Arlington arrives searching for an elephant burial ground full of ivory. Jane is tempted by reminders of “civilization,” while Tarzan resists the exploitation of the elephants and the greed of the expedition. Much of the conflict is about nature vs. greed, and whether Jane belongs in the jungle or the modern world.

Why it’s notable
Pre-Code Hollywood film – It was released just before stricter enforcement of the Hays Code, so it was more sensual and daring than later Hollywood adventure films.
Famous underwater sequence – One of its best-known scenes is the graceful underwater swim sequence, often discussed because Josephine McKim (Olympic swimmer) doubled for O’Sullivan in parts of it.
Action and spectacle – It pushed jungle-adventure filmmaking with animal action, large-scale safari scenes, and the iconic Tarzan/Jane dynamic.
Cast
Johnny Weissmuller — Tarzan
Maureen O’Sullivan — Jane Parker
Neil Hamilton — Harry Holt
Paul Cavanagh — Martin Arlington
Legacy

In 2003, the Library of Congress selected it for the National Film Registry as “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” That’s a big reason film historians still discuss it today.

Modern perspective

It’s admired for adventure filmmaking and chemistry between Tarzan and Jane, but like many jungle films of the 1930s, it also reflects colonial and racial stereotypes of its era. That makes it historically important, but also something modern viewers often watch with context.