Buster Crabbe graduated from the University of Southern California. In 1931, while working on That's My Boy (1932) for Columbia, he was tested by MGM for Tarzan and rejected. Paramount put him in King of the Jungle (1933) as Kaspa, the Lion Man (after a book of that title but clearly a copy of the Tarzan stories). Publicity for this film emphasized his having won the 1932 Olympic 400-meter freestyle swimming championship and suggested a rivalry with Johnny Weissmuller. Producer Sol Lesser wa ...[Read Story]
"Star Tonight"
(1955)
