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Mar 5, 2004 · Maria Gertrude Bauman Weissmuller was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. Her father was Anton Bauman. Her mother was Antonia V Ortner. Her first husband was Prauss. Together they had a daughter Elizabeth Gwen Prauss. Her second husband was Carl Moritz Brock. They were married 1948 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- First Film Roles
- Johnny Weissmuller’S Five Wives
- Tarzan Trivia
Continued from Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller – Part 1. So how did the boy from Banat, Pennsylvania, and Chicago end up in the jungles of MGM and RKO? Weissmuller’s first film role was set in the jungle of New York’s Broadway. On the basis of his Olympic fame, he did a cameo as a lightly clad Adonis in a Florenz Ziegfield production called Glorifying t...
Listed with (dates of marriage): 1. Bobbe Arnst(1931-1932) – Johnny’s first marriage, to this former nightclub singer, was also his shortest. Arnst was paid $10,000 by MGM as a reward for divorcing Johnny in 1932. The studio preferred Johnny single for publicity purposes, but it really wasn’t that simple. MGM drove a wedge between the pair, and the...
For a full filmography of Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan movies and all the Tarzan pictures, see our Tarzan Moviespage. 1. THE TARZAN NAME: “Tarzan” means “white skin” (tar = white; zan = skin). The German name of the actor best remembered as Tarzan, Weissmüller, means “wheat/white miller.” “Weiss” – in addition to meaning “white” – may also refer to ...
His marriage to the German-born Maria Gertrude Baumann [1] (1921-2004) would last over 21 years, until his death. He and Maria were wed in a civil ceremony at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas on April 23, 1963.
The author is far less kind to some other people, especially his father’s fifth and last wife, German-born Maria Gertrude Baumann (1921-2004). (As in all the other Weissmuller bios to date, Tarzan, My Father also misspells her German surname as Bauman.
Maria Gertrude Baumann. Marriage. Children (3) John Scott Weissmuller. Lisa Gunda Weissmuller. Wendy Ann.
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- Maria Gertrude Baumann, Allene Rae Gates
Weissmuller was married five times: band and club singer Bobbe Arnst (married 1931, divorced 1933); actress Lupe Vélez (married 1933, divorced 1939); Beryl Scott (married 1939, divorced 1948); Allene Gates (married 1948, divorced 1962); and Maria Gertrude Baumann (born 1921, died 2004; married from 1963 until his death in 1984).
Maria Gertrude Baumann (1963-1984) – Weissmuller married Maria Gertrude Baumann in 1963 and they remained together until his death in 1984. He had a stepdaughter named Lisa Weissmuller-Gallagher with Baumann.
