Tarzan and The Foundlings

“After three hit Tarzan movies starring Johnny Weissmuller in the title role and Maureen O’Sullivan asJane, MGM decided to give a son to the apeman and his mate in Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939). However, he had to be a foundling because, according to the Legion of Decency, thescantily clad jungle couple were not married, and presumably never had sex. “Boy”, as he was named, was played byJohnny Sheffield, who has died aged 79 of a heart attack at his California home after falling off a ladder while pruning a tree.”

Tarzan and Boy are Foundlings. On April 6 1998 I wrote Judge Richard Silver who was handling the probate of my late sister, Christine Rosamond Benton, and declared my family was a Family of Foundlings. With the astounding discovery I made, that Edgar Rice Burroughs was a cousin of my uncle Vincent Rice, I believe I can launch a…