[Matthew1993]

Originally Posted by yellow_fever_01

From IMDb.com:

Triva

The infamous nude swimming scene was originally filmed in three different versions: with Jane wearing her traditional costume, with Jane topless and with Jane fully nude. US states were empowered at that time to enact individual censorship laws, and three different versions of the scene were filmed in order to allow individual states to select the version of the scene which best conformed to its laws. All three versions were eventually removed from the film due to protests from conservative religious groups, particularly the powerful Catholic Legion of Decency. The nude version of the scene was discovered in the vaults of Turner Entertainment during the late 1990s following its purchase of the MGM film library, and was restored to most subsequent versions of the film on the direct orders of Turner Entertainment chairman Ted Turner. In the restored version of the scene, Tarzan is depicted wearing his traditional loincloth while Jane appears fully nude, her costume having been torn off when Tarzan playfully tosses her from a tree to the water below. The scene as it exists today is approximately four minutes in duration.

Maureen O'Sullivan does not appear as Jane during the film's famous nude swimming sequence. O'Sullivan is instead doubled by Josephine McKim, a member of the 1924 and 1928 U.S. Womens' Olympic Swim Teams and one of the four U.S. swimmers on that team to win the 1928 gold medal in the 400-Meter Freestyle Relay.

The only appearance of the two-piece Jane costume, subsequently replaced by a long one-piece costume in all the sequels due to pressure from the Hays Office as they felt it was too revealing.

Betty Roth (wife of animal supervisor Louis Roth) doubled for O'Sullivan for some close-up lion scenes at the end of filming due to O'Sullivan's absence for an appendectomy.

Goofs

Maureen O'Sullivan's costume in this film was so brief that during a swimming scene, one of her breasts was exposed. This scene was included in an early edit of the film, but it was cut to appease censors.

Alternate Versions

Older television prints of "Tarzan and His Mate" run 93 minutes. Among the deleted segments are the nude swimming scene, some brief footage of bare-breasted natives, and some of the more graphic violence.

Censorship Changes

1. The Hays Office insisted on cuts of 11 minutes of nude swimming (a fully nude Josephine McKim played Jane). This had some public showings, before...

2. The New York censors cut a further scene involving male nudity.

This was the version that eventually went on general release.

RESTORED VERSIONS: Ted Turner had the cut scenes restored when a full positive was found when he took over MGM.

This is the 116 min. version that is available on VHS.

Like he said. The full version is available for download in a number of places.