May 16, 2025 and ninety-seven years ago on this day in 1931, Mexican film actress Maria Magdalena Guzman Garza, better known as Magda Guzman, was born in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. The International Movie Data Base gives her birth year as 1828, but Wikipedia and other biographical sites say she was born in 1931. I believe that 1931 is correct. Even more confusing is her place of birth. IMBD says she was born in – Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, but I believe the Wikipedia birth location is correct, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
Her second film role was in “Tarzan y las Sirenas,” better known as “Tarzan and the Mermaids.” Her career spanned seventy years and almost one hundred separate credits. On television she was a telenovela star and appeared in over eighty episodes of “Valiant Love,” “One hundred and sixty episodes of “ In the Name of Love,” “185 episodes of “Storm over Paradise,” “202 episodes of “Muchacha de Barrio,’ “Extranos Caminos Del Amor,: and 140 episodes of “Para Volve A Amar.”
Details, photographs, and much more concerning “Tarzan and the Mermaids,” may be perused at: https://www.erbzine.com/mag6/0628.html
The fictional 100 word drabble for today is, “Mirror, Mirror,” and it was inspired by the 68-minute-long film, “Tarzan and the Mermaids,” starring Johnny Weissmuller and Brenda Joyce.
Director Robert Florey of Tarzan and the Mermaids shouted “Cut!” He called Weissmuller aside. “Johnny, what’s going on? You aren’t taking your role seriously.”
“I just can’t. This is the first Tarzan film I’ve made with mythical creatures in the title. Mermaids are creatures of legend. That bothers me.”
“But you were okay with giant spiders and talking apes.”
“Apes and spiders are real. Mermaids aren’t. I think that appearing with fictional creatures not only damages Tarzan’s credibility, but mine as well.”
‘Really!” No fictional creatures? How about you go look in a mirror, apeman, and tell me that again.”
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