June 7. 2025 and ninety-one years ago on this day in 1934, Actress Diana Millay, who played Doctor Ann Philips in “Tarzan and the Great River,” was born in Rye, New York.
The film, which featured Mike Henry as Tarzan Jan Murray as a riverboat captain, and Rafer Johnson as Bracuma, didn’t include a Jane or a Boy, characters banished from the Tarzan films of the time.
Details about the film, “Tarzan and the Great River: https://www.erbzine.com/mag19/1962.html
After completing “Tarzan and the Great River,” executive producer Dan Curtis offered Millay the contract role of Laura Collins on his daytime series, “Dark Shadows She went on to appear in sixty-two episodes, and became the show's first supernatural character, playing an immortal phoenix-woman who is burned in a fire and reborn to spend another century on Earth.
She primarily worked in television, guest starring in nearly 100 prime time shows.
The drabble for today, “Justifiably Afraid,” is a fictional conversation between Tarzan and riverboat captain, Sam Bishop, played by Mike Henry and Jan Murray.
Bishop said, “That Dr. Millay wants to vaccinate all the natives from the plague. She even said that I must have the shot.”
Tarzan nodded. “Me too. I did. Better safe than sorry.”
“She’s one tough lady. I expect she always gets her way. She scares me. The village men are terrified of her, but she doesn’t seem to frighten the women or the children.”
Tarzan laughed. “How old are you, Sam Bishop? You’re certainly old enough to know that only grown men are afraid of women.”
“Here she comes. Time for me to bare my arm and bear it.”
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