In addition, the name of Jane's father in the first film is James Parker. The 1932 sound film Tarzan the Ape Man and its sequels changed the character's name to Jane Parker, portraying her as English rather than American and making her and Tarzan the adoptive parents of an orphan they named "Boy".
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Maxwell's novel is a free adaptation of the original story, contradicting it on numerous points of the story.Įarly Tarzan films portrayed Jane Porter and (occasionally) her father faithfully to the portrayal in the novels. to commemorate the centennial celebration of Tarzan.
In addition, Porter is the narrator-protagonist in Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan by Robin Maxwell, a 2011 novel authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Jane also appeared in a minor role in the non-Tarzan novel The Eternal Lover (1925), the events of which take place chronologically between The Return of Tarzan and The Beasts of Tarzan.
She first appeared in the initial Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), then later reappeared in:
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She develops over the course of the series from a conventional damsel in distress, who must be rescued from various perils, to an educated, competent and capable adventuress in her own right, fully capable of defending herself and surviving on her own in the jungles of Africa. She becomes the love interest and later the wife of Tarzan, and subsequently the mother of their son Korak. Jane, an American from Baltimore, Maryland, is the daughter of professor Archimedes Q.