Trivia

This is the first Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan which doesn't feature the famous yodeling yell; neither from Tarzan himself, nor the altered versions from Jane nor Boy. When Jane is in trouble stuck below a tree, she simply calls out "Tarzan!"

Maria Ouspenskaya, who plays the crone-like high priestess of the Amazons, was in many of the best remembered films of the 1930s and 1940s, including Dodsworth (1936), The Rains Came (1939), and Conquest (1937), but she was most memorably cast as "Maleva," the old Gypsy woman, who believes in the curse over Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) in The Wolf Man (1941) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943).

This is the first movie of the Tarzan series re-introducing Jane, after Maureen O'Sullivan's final run with Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942), which came out three years prior. Jane is now played by actress Brenda Joyce, who looks quite different from O'Sullivan. She is even blonde! However, no mention whatsoever is made of her different appearance and radical change in personality. It is unclear why her hair wasn't dyed black to make the transition smoother on the audiences. Joyce would play Jane a total of five times.

When Boy brags to Jane that he can now swim as well as Tarzan, some knowing glances pass between cast members in response. This was somewhat of an insider joke because Johnny Weissmuller had been a record-setting, multi-gold-medal-winning Olympic swimmer.

Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) was shot on location at the Baldwin Park Lodge, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Los Angeles and Lone Pine, CA.